How to Make Mozilla Firefox Faster

Google Chrome has now eclipsed Mozilla Firefox in the speed category, but I still using my Mozilla Firefox as my default browser and it is still my favorite browser that I will use very often because Mozilla Firefox still better than Google Chrome and other browsers in certain areas. But do you know improve the speed of Mozilla Firefox is possible? You can follow the below steps to make Mozilla Firefox somewhat faster than Google Chrome and other browsers.

1. Type about:config into the Firefox URL/address bar and hit ENTER. (You will be warned that you might void your warranty if you change some advanced settings, just click the button “I’ll be careful and I Promise!” to go ahead)

2. Search the following Preference Name/entry and set their values to “true” by double-clicking each one of them.

network.http.pipelining
network.http.proxy.pipelining

3. Next, find this entry too and double-click and set the value to 8.

network.http.pipelining.maxrequests

4. Right-click anywhere inside the config page and select New –> Integer. Name it nglayout.initialpaint.delay and set the value to “0″.

5. Right-click anywhere inside the config page and select New –> Integer. Name it content.notify.interval and set the value to “500000″.

6. Right-click anywhere inside the config page and select New –> Integer. Name it content.switch.threshold and set the value to “250000″.

7. Right-click anywhere inside the config page and select New –> Boolean. Name it content.notify.ontimer and set the value to “true″.

8. Right-click anywhere inside the config page and select New –> Boolean. Name it content.interrupt.parsing and set the value to “false″.

You should be able to notice the speed improvement immediately after applying the above tweaks. Remember, you should also disable the “firefox addon” that you don’t use often, this will help to improve the speed of Firefox loading during the startup.

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