Speed and Tweak UR FireFox 3
Initially when firefox was launched, its website rendering speed was amazing when compared to IE6/7.But over the last few months Apple Safari Browser and Google Chrome did it better.But people still prefer FF cause of its extensions, so ill try to renew and renovate ur FF experience.Although I won dare to dig into Firefox’s rendering engine, here are a few tricks which will increase browsing speed.
Before you get started, Statutory warning: This was intended for Power Users(who noes whats under the hood).But its easy for an average user to fiddle around with proper guidance.And caution caution if you F… UR workstation with this tweak than don send in ur hate mails, and don’t go shouting around. It happens dude sometimes ,its part of learning.
Donno worry and leave now . Its ok to try this settings out it will not blow ur system.Enjoy the new FF experience.
First you need to know that all your setting are saved in FF configuration menu. Now Config menu doesn have any GUI. Its in a form of table containing several parameters. Its like registry in windows(wait FF3 doesn blot) and config.*** in linux.
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 the following parameter tweaks are what I have found speed up Firefox on my computer, and these settings should work fine for other broadband internet users.
Double Click on the following settings and put in the numbers below – for the true / false booleans – they’ll change when you double click. If you cannot find a particular entry in the list, there is a search bar at the topic of the screen to narrow the list down.
Code:
browser.tabs.showSingleWindowModePrefs = true
network.http.max-connections = 48
network.http.max-connections-per-server = 16
network.http.max-persistent-connections-per-proxy = 208
network.http.max-persistent-connections-per-server = 52
network.http.pipelining = true
network.http.pipelining.maxrequests = 100
network.http.proxy.pipelining = true
network.http.request.timeout = 300
network.image.ImageBehavior = 0
Now the follwing is the most imp of all and only for broadband users, itll surely increase your rendering speed.
Now right-click somewhere on that screen and click
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!
Ill post more tweasks later, till then all your comments will be much anticipated and appreciated.Wait wait its not over 1 final word, remember remember no hate mails please, you screwed your system i just guided you. Tada.
