Out of the box Firefox is actually pretty fast, but who said it couldn’t be faster? With a few tweaks to Firefox’s internal settings we can make it 10 times faster.

The first thing you are going to need to do is type “about:config” into the address bar. There well be a warning message, don’t worry we arnt doing anything too dangerous so just click the button that says “I’ll Be carefully I Promise”

Now you should be a text field at the top, enter this in it “network.http.pipelining” (without quotes) Now, double click the top entry and that should set it to true. This will allow your browser to make more then one connection to the website at a time so you dont have to wait for the first one to finish to start the next one.

Now in the text box type in “network.http.proxy.pipelining” (with out the quotes) Double click this one, it should now be set to true. The will also allow you to make multiple connections to the same website, this allows you to load more then one part of a website at a a time.

Now in the text box type “network.http.pipelining.maxrequests” double click it and a window should pop up. Put any number around 30 into that field then click ok. Tris will tell Firefox how many connections to make at the same time. WARNING: do not put a number that is too high because it may actually slow Firefox immensely.

Lastly in the white part of the screen right click and select New -> Integer. A window will come up asking for a “preference name” put “nglayout.initialpaint.delay” in (again without quotes) another window will come up asking for a value, enter 0. This tells the browser how long to wait to act on the information it receives. Since you want the page to load as fast as possible this will make the browser to render the page as soon as it receives the data form the website.

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