Here is a way to speed up Firefox if you'e on a broadband connection:

1.Type "about:config" into the address bar and hit return. Scroll down and look for the following entries:

network.http.pipelining
network.http.proxy.pipelining
network.http.pipelining.maxrequests

Normally the browser will make one request to a web page at a time. When you enable pipelining it will make several at once, which really speeds up page loading.

2. Alter the entries as follows by double clicking on them:

Set "network.http.pipelining" to "true"

Set "network.http.proxy.pipelining" to "true"

Set "network.http.pipelining.maxrequests" to some number like 30. This means it will make 30 requests at once.

3. Lastly right-click anywhere and select New-> Integer. Name it "nglayout.initialpaint.delay" and set its value to "0". This value is the amount of time the browser waits before it acts on information it recieves.

If you're using a broadband connection you'll load pages faster.

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Brando

Hi Brando, hello all,


Brando: You Da Man!

Makes it work like all my paranoia programs are not there.

Regards, Norm

lol....I just did this fix to my firefox browser on my new computer, and it's amazing how much it speeds things up.

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Brando

Firefox was becoming painfully slow for me...I found myself resorting to internet explorer because it would open pages up A LOT faster

I originally thought my extensions might be causing trouble, so I removed them, but that didn't fix the problem.

I followed this site's instructions

Basically you export your bookmarks (if you have any), go to run and type

And create a new profile to start up with, then import your old bookmarks, worked great for me.


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Brando

I just started using Fire Fox about 3 months ago, and I like it much better the internet explorer. Why is it faster the I.E if its the same computer and internet connection? I thought it being faster was my imagination (maybe it is!).

Well, I imagine the coding in firefox is much more efficient than internet explorer.

This particular topic shows you how to make firefox open more connections, in a sense creating more bandwidth for browsing. Same way those "Super fast speed download managers" work, they open as many connections as possible to a single server.

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