Firefox too slow ??

I have found the following tweaks for the Firefox web browser in a Traffic Exchange I use to bring traffic to my web sites. If you want to find out more click on the link above.

I have tried these tweaks both on my Windows and my Linux versions of Firefox and when surfing the traffic exchanges like Traffic Era it certainly helps to load the pages quicker.

NOTE: These tweaks are for BROADBAND connections ONLY!

Yes, Firefox is already pretty damn fast but did you know that you can tweak it and improve the speed even more?

That's the beauty of this program being open source.

Here's what you do:

In the URL bar, type "about:config" and press enter. This will bring up the configuration "menu" where you can change the parameters of Firefox.

Note that these are what I've found to REALLY speed up my Firefox significantly - and these settings seem to be common among everybody else as well. But these settings are optimized for broadband connections - I mean with as much concurrent requests we're going to open up with pipelining - You'd better have a big connection!

Double Click on the following settings and put in the numbers below - for the true / false booleans - they'll change when you double click.

Code:
browser.tabs.showSingleWindowModePrefs - true
network.http.max-connections - 48
network.http.max-connections-per-server - 16
network.http.max-persistent-connections-per-proxy - 8
network.http.max-persistent-connections-per-server - 4
network.http.pipelining - true
network.http.pipelining.maxrequests - 100
network.http.proxy.pipelining - true
network.http.request.timeout - 300

One more thing... Right-click somewhere on that screen and add a 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 receives. Since you're broadband - it shouldn't have to wait.

Now you should notice you're loading pages MUCH faster now!