Software, Howto, Tips & Tricks 01 Jul 2006 06:25 pm
How to speed up web page loading in FireFox
By D.W.Attempting to make my favourite browser FireFox load pages faster I came up with the following:
This works by allowing FireFox to download more than one file at a time.
To tweak your FireFox, follow the instructions below:
- Type about:config into the address bar and hit Enter.
- Look for the following entries:
network.http.pipelining
network.http.proxy.pipelining
network.http.pipelining.maxrequests - Alter the entries as follows:
Set network.http.pipelining to true
Set network.http.proxy.pipelining to true
Set network.http.pipelining.maxrequests to your desired maximum number of connections, such as 30. - Right-click anywhere and select New -> Integer. Give the new entry the name nglayout.initialpaint.delay and set its value to 0. This setting is the amount of time FireFox waits before it acts on information it receives.
That’s it! You’ll load pages MUCH faster now (well, assuming you’re not on dial-up!)
I also recommend viewing A Beginner’s Guide to Firefox.
Best regards!
DW
on 08 Jul 2006 at 2:52 pm 1.Karel said …
The network.http.pipelining.maxrequests should be set to 8 or less. Values greater than 8 have no effect.
on 10 Jul 2006 at 10:16 pm 2.lobuku said …
How do I remove a line from about:config if I made an error when entering the new interger line? Or do I need to reload Firefox?
on 27 Sep 2007 at 1:45 pm 3.James said …
Wow. I never know this thing could be done. I have configured my Firefox as you mentioned. Now, I just have to see whether there is a change on my speed or not.