Speed Up Firefox

aragon

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    Speed Up Firefox

    Mozilla Firefox is a graphical web browser developed by the Mozilla Corporation. Started as a fork of the browser component (Navigator) of the Mozilla Application Suite, Firefox has replaced the Mozilla Suite as the flagship product of the Mozilla project, stewarded by the Mozilla Foundation and a large community of external contributors. Mozilla Firefox is a cross-platform browser, providing support for various versions of Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux. Although not officially released for certain operating systems, the freely available source code works for many other operating systems, including FreeBSD,OS/2, Solaris, SkyOS, BeOS and more recently, Windows XP Professional x64 Edition.
    I am providing some Very Useful Tips to speedup your Firefox.


    In your location bar, type about:config
    Once it Opens You should see similar to the following screen


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    Tip1


    In the filter bar type network.http.pipelining
    You should see the following screen

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    Normally it says ” false ” under value field , Double click it so it becomes ” true “.
    Once you finished this you should see the following screen.


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    Tip2

    In the filter bar again and type network.http.pipelining.maxrequests
    Once it Opens You should see the following screen

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    Default it says 4 under value field and you need to change it to 8
    Once you finished this you should see the following screen.


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    Tip3

    Go to the filter bar again and type network.http.proxy.pipelining
    Once it Opens You should see similar to the following screen


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    Normally it says ” false ” under value field , Double click it so it becomes ” true “.
    Once you finished this you should see the following screen.


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    Tip4

    Go to the filter bar again and type network.dns.disableIPv6
    Once it Opens You should see the following screen


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    Normally it says ” false ” under value field , Double click it so it becomes ” true “.
    Once you finished this you should see the following screen.


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    Tip5

    Go to the filter bar again and type plugin.expose_full_path
    Once it Opens You should see the following screen


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    Normally it says ” false ” under value field , Double click it so it becomes ” true “.
    Once you finished this you should see the following screen.


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    Tip6

    Now you need to Create new Preference name with interger value for this got to Right click -> New -> Integer


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    Once it opens you should see the following screen


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    Here you need to type nglayout.initialpaint.delay


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    Now you need to enter 0 in value filed and click ok


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    Once you finished this you should see the following screen.


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    Tip7

    Now you need to Create one more Preference name with interger value for this got to Right click -> New -> Integer


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    Once it opens you should see the following screen


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    Here you need to type content.notify.backoffcount


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    Now you need to enter 5 in value filed and click ok


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    Once you finished this you should see the following screen.


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    Tip8

    Now you need to Create one more Preference name with interger value for this got to Right click -> New -> Integer


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    Once it opens you should see the following screen


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    Here you need to type ui.submenuDelay and click ok


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    Now you need to enter 0 in value filed and click ok


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    Once you finished this you should see the following screen.


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    Some more Tweaks


    Enable the spellchecker for inputfields and textareas (default is textareas only)
    layout.spellcheckDefault=2
    Open lastfm://-links directly in amarok
    network.protocol-handler.app.lastfm=amarok
    network.protocol-handler.external.lastfm=true




    Firefox Memory Leak Fix


    Open a new tab. Type “about:config” without quotes into the address bar and hit enter/click Go.
    Right-click anywhere, select New, then Integer. In the dialog prompt that appears, type:
    browser.cache.memory.capacity
    Click OK. Another dialog prompt will appear. This is where you decide how much memory to allocate to Firefox. This depends on how much RAM your computer has, but generally you don’t want to allocate too little (under 8MB), but if you allocate too much, you might as well not do this. A good recommended setting is 16MB. If you want 16MB, enter this value into the dialog prompt:
    16384
    (Why 16384 instead of 16000? Because computers use base-12 counting. Thus 16 megabytes = 16384 bytes. Likewise, if you want to double that and allocate 32MB, you’d enter 32768.)
    Click OK to close the dialog box, then close all instances of Firefox and restart. If your Firefox still uses the same amount of memory, give it a few minutes and it should slowly clear up. If that fails, try a system reboot.
    Now your Firefox will now be 3 – 30 times faster in loading pages.
    and click ok and click ok


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    aragon

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    nice...seems it work..(well errors came to display, so I assume it worked)..anyway thnx aragon
    rep+ :)
    It workz for me with my old fire fox version 3.0..:yes:
    I really dn knw whether it z working with da latest ver. 3.5. :no:
    But it shud b wrking with d@t ver. also..
    Thnkz for ya comment machan..
    :yes: