How to speed up my Firefox?

Question

How to speed up my Firefox?

Answer 1

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… lol… you’d better have a big connection.



Double Click on the following settins 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!

Answer 2

follow these steps:

1. Type about:config in the address bar and hit enter.

2. Click on "I’ll be careful, I promise!". Don’t just say that and do wrong! You should be careful.

3. Now in the "Filter" box, type the ones given below one by one along with changing the value of each one to true.

NOTE: To change the value, just double-click on the required one.



network.http.pipelining

network.http.proxy.pipelining

network.dns.disableIPv6

plugin.expose_full_path

javascript.options.jit.chrome

javascript.options.jit.content



4. Now type network "http.pipelining.maxrequests" in the filter box and change its value to the number of tabs you open in Firefox at a time. For example, if you usually open 10 tabs, then put its value to 10. Just double-click on it to change the value.



5. Now right-click anywhere on the about:config page and select select "Integer" from the "New" option. Type content.notify.backoffcount and click on OK. Now set it its value to 5.

NOTE: Mac users could use Ctrl + click instead of right-click.



6. Again right-click anywhere on the page and select "Boolean" from New. Type "content.notify.ontimer" in the box and set its value to "true".



7. Right-click and select "Integer" from "New" and enter content.notify."interval" as the preference name and give its value to 500000. It speeds up web page loading.



8. Select another "Integer" and give the name as "content.switch.threshold" and set the value to 250000. This is also done to speed up the loading time of web pages.



9. Create another Boolean named "content.interrupt.parsing" and set its value to true.



10. Select "Integer" from "New once" again and give the preference name as "content.max.tokenizing.time" and set its value to 2250000.



or



>>Using add-ons like:

-Fasterfox could speed up your Firefox browser https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/9148/

- FastFox https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/9825/

-FireDownload https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/10615/

-Vaccum Places https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/13824/

-Speed DNS ( Make browsing faster ), https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/54648/

-Tweak Network ( Speed up web page loading ) https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/327/



>>You could also block the advertisements in web pages using Adblock Plus add-on to speed up web page loading https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1865/



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Answer 3

Clean your c disk and defrag your hard drive