Firefox is my browser of choice. I really love the tabbed features, extensions and correct rendering of css. There are times though when it feels sooooo slow. It is mainly when starting up the program and occasionaly when opening links in new popup windows. So whenever I can find some tips to speed it up, I am very excited. As long as they don’t cause it to freeze and crash more often.
As much as people talk about what a great product Firefox is, I still have it crash on me several times a day. Fortunately it’s usually not a big deal, and yes I understand that it could be caused by the extensions I have. BUT STILL crashing shouldn’t be the norm. I think that I have been too conditioned to think it’s ok for a program to crash as long as I like everything else.
Anyway, tips to speed up Firefox:
- Enter about:config in the Firefox address bar to edit your browser configuration.
- Set network.http.pipelining to true. (You can toggle it by double clicking on it.
- Set network.http.proxy.pipelining to true.
- Set network.http.pipelining.maxrequests to something bigger than 4. I set it to 10.
- Create a new setting called nglayout.initialpaint.delay and set it to 0. To create a new setting, right click on the page, select New and then select Integer (since this setting is a number).
