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Mozilla Firefox is a cross-platform browser, providing support for various versions of Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux. Although not officially released for certain operating systems, the freely available source code works for many other operating systems, including FreeBSD,OS/2, Solaris, SkyOS, BeOS and more recently, Windows XP Professional x64 Edition.
I am providing some Very Useful Tips to speedup your Firefox.
In your location bar, type about:config
Once it Opens You should see similar to the following screen
Tip1
In the filter bar type network.http.pipelining
You should see the following screen
Normally it says ” false ” under value field , Double click it so it becomes ” true “.
Once you finished this you should see the following screen.
Tip2
In the filter bar again and type network.http.pipelining.maxrequests
Once it Opens You should see the following screen
Default it says 4 under value field and you need to change it to 8
Once you finished this you should see the following screen.
Tip3
Go to the filter bar again and type network.http.proxy.pipelining
Once it Opens You should see similar to the following screen
Normally it says ” false ” under value field , Double click it so it becomes ” true “.
Once you finished this you should see the following screen.
Tip4
Go to the filter bar again and type network.dns.disableIPv6
Once it Opens You should see the following screen
Normally it says ” false ” under value field , Double click it so it becomes ” true “.
Once you finished this you should see the following screen.
Tip5
Go to the filter bar again and type plugin.expose_full_path
Once it Opens You should see the following screen
Normally it says ” false ” under value field , Double click it so it becomes ” true “.
Once you finished this you should see the following screen.
Tip6
Now you need to Create new Preference name with interger value for this got to Right click -> New -> Integer
Once it opens you should see the following screen
Here you need to type nglayout.initialpaint.delay and click ok
Now you need to enter 0 in value filed and click ok
Once you finished this you should see the following screen.
Tip7
Now you need to Create one more Preference name with interger value for this got to Right click -> New -> Integer
Once it opens you should see the following screen
Here you need to type content.notify.backoffcount and click ok
Now you need to enter 5 in value filed and click ok
Once you finished this you should see the following screen.
Tip8
Now you need to Create one more Preference name with interger value for this got to Right click -> New -> Integer
Once it opens you should see the following screen
Here you need to type ui.submenuDelay and click ok
Now you need to enter 0 in value filed and click ok
Once you finished this you should see the following screen.
Some more Tweaks
Enable the spellchecker for inputfields and textareas (default is textareas only)
layout.spellcheckDefault=2
Open lastfm://-links directly in amarok
network.protocol-handler.app.lastfm=amarok
network.protocol-handler.external.lastfm=true
Firefox Memory Leak Fix
Open a new tab. Type “about:config” without quotes into the address bar and hit enter/click Go.
Right-click anywhere, select New, then Integer. In the dialog prompt that appears, type:
browser.cache.memory.capacity
Click OK. Another dialog prompt will appear. This is where you decide how much memory to allocate to Firefox. This depends on how much RAM your computer has, but generally you don’t want to allocate too little (under 8MB), but if you allocate too much, you might as well not do this. A good recommended setting is 16MB. If you want 16MB, enter this value into the dialog prompt:
16384
(Why 16384 instead of 16000? Because computers use base-12 counting. Thus 16 megabytes = 16384 bytes. Likewise, if you want to double that and allocate 32MB, you’d enter 32768.)
Click OK to close the dialog box, then close all instances of Firefox and restart. If your Firefox still uses the same amount of memory, give it a few minutes and it should slowly clear up. If that fails, try a system reboot.
Now your Firefox will now be 3 - 30 times faster in loading pages.
thanks bro,i used it and working
Hi Miles,
Thats because your filter is still selecting plugin.expose_full_path. Just clear the filter and you will see that the values you created are indeed there.
Just tried it and yes, 3 to 30 times faster…. at least. Thanks, I am now a dedicated fan.
V/r
DC
Thanks for posting the information!
Thanks! I had stuttering with streaming, but now everything is perfect!
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d u d e !!! you totally DID it!!!! THX!!!!
I use Firefox all the time but thanks for the tips.
hmmmm, would be nice to know what the actual variables are standing for instead of all the pictures showing the same dialog over and over.
it didn’t work. i’ve followed it one by one, why did it not work? pls, help me, pls, reply on my email
No, no, no. You should NOT follow this guide.
Most of these tweaks have no effect at all (other than producing a kind of placebo effect) and others have bad effects for other people.
For example, the HTTP-pipelining and maxrequests will unnecessarily add load on webservers without delivering content faster to you. Reducing the paintdelay is equally stupid, why would you want to render a page that isn’t fully loaded?
The default settings for all of these settings are perfectly fine. Do not apply guides like this without knowing what or why you’re doing. Several benchmarks have shown that these tweaks have zero effect on speed, it just creates the illusion of added speed.
Can any one please explain me clearly about this Please::::
(Some more Tweaks
Enable the spellchecker for inputfields and textareas (default is textareas only)
layout.spellcheckDefault=2
Open lastfm://-links directly in amarok
network.protocol-handler.app.lastfm=amarok
network.protocol-handler.external.lastfm=true)
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