Speed Up Firefox

Everyone wants web sites and web pages to load faster, there actually isn’t anything more time consuming then waiting for a web site to load up, it really comes down to three main factors, your web browser, your internet connection and the server the website your trying to load. Apparently if you’ve got a crappy web browser, then it’s going to take longer to load then say you were using Firefox, if you have a better internet connection, then you’ll be able to load websites better and if the website is hosted on a decent server, it’ll load smarter.






Now I’ve always found Firefox is be pretty quick, but then I learnt you were able to modify some of the settings within Firefox to make it load websites even faster and in this how to, I’m going to show you exactly how you can boost the speed Firefox loads web pages at, plus explain what we’re changing and why, so instead of just following simple instructions, your learning what your changing and how it’s going to effect your website loading times.

If you very want too, you can use Addons for Firefox, which tell you how long it takes websites to stretch, one which I’m a fan of, is called Extended Statusbar, if you really want to work out how much you’ve increased your website loading times, you can use this sweet Firefox Addon to do so, so lets get started. But they won’t fix website loading time, but only show you info on this.

First turned, we’re going to need to open up the config within Firefox, this is super easy to do, just open a new tab and type in the address bar, about:config – It’s that simple, you’ll then see some warning message because playing with the config settings can screw up your browser, so read carefully! Click “I’ll be careful, I promise” and lets get started!

At the top of the config, you’ll see a “Filter” bar, we’re going to be using this to find the fields we need to edit, which is going to save us a lot of time, the first thing we’re going to change, search for network.http.pipelining, it’ll be set to disabled by default, so change this to enabled. What pipelining is, in simple terms, it means you can send multiple requests to a server, before it has replied, not every server supports pipelining, but this is a decent way to speed up the load times on the websites which do support it, now find network.http.pipelining.maxrequests and set this to 8, this is the maximum number of pipelining requests Firefox will make, we’re also going to need to find network.http.proxy.pipelining and enable that too.