Attempting to make my favourite browser FireFox load pages faster I came up with the following:

This works by allowing FireFox to download more than one file at a time.

To tweak your FireFox, follow the instructions below:

1. Type about:config into the address bar and hit Enter.
2. Look for the following entries:
   network.http.pipelining
   network.http.proxy.pipelining
   network.http.pipelining.maxrequests
3. Alter the entries as follows:
   Set network.http.pipelining to true
   Set network.http.proxy.pipelining to true
   Set network.http.pipelining.maxrequests to your desired maximum number of connections, such as 30.
4. Right-click anywhere and select New -> Integer. Give the new entry the name nglayout.initialpaint.delay and set its value to 0. This setting is the amount of time FireFox waits before it acts on information it receives.

That’s it! You’ll load pages MUCH faster now (well, assuming you’re not on dial-up!)

I also recommend viewing A Beginner’s Guide to Firefox.

Best regards!

DW

How to speed up web page loading in FireFox

Originally from DWTIPS by D.W.

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