Mozilla Firefox is a free and open source web browser developed for Microsoft Windows, OS X, and Linux, coordinated by Mozilla Corporation and Mozilla Foundation. Firefox uses the Gecko layout engine to render web pages, which implements current and anticipated web standards. 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 A pop up box will show to you click on I’ll be careful, I promise!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 ” Right Click somewhere on that screen > 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.
This value is the amount of time the browser waits before it acts on information it receives. Tip7
Now you need to Create one more Preference name with ” interger value ” for this Right click any where > 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 Right Click any where > 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. Exit your Mozilla Firefox and Reopen it. Since you are broadband, it shouldn’t have to wait. Now you should notice you are loading pages MUCH faster now! 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. Hope this info helps? feel free to share this post with your friends using the Share/Like buttons. Simply ask any question by using the comment box below. Never miss any of my future post CLICK HERE TO SUBSCRIBE Once entered, you will have to check your inbox for a confirmation email containing a confirmation link. Once you VERIFY your email by clicking on the confirmation link in the message, you will never miss any future articles
7 thoughts on “How to Increase Your Mozilla Firefox Browsing Speed”
would really love to have given it a try..but i got stucked some where..i couldnt find the "filter bar" in my browser…is there anyway to have it open in my browser..pls reply urgently..i really do like ur updates here..thank you.. nanaku..
@Anonymous The filter bar is just to reduce your stress, it will quickly search what you need for you, but you can still do it without filter bar.
What you need to do is to scroll down for your self and search from line to line, one after the other,you will definitely found them.
Just correct or replace them with the instruction above.
You are welcome.
@Anonymous You may also update your browser by downloading the latest version if you want to see filter bar on your browser.
Thank u so much,hv done everything u said
@ Anonymous, u are welcome & tnx 4 taking time 2 drop comment, hope u notice d fastness on ur Firefox?
nice article
Tnx.