Firefox 3 can be optimized. Broadband users will notice significant speed increase from this simple optimization. Firefox is distributed with settings that will work with any machine or setup. Anyone with a half-decent connection can make these changes and get a great speed increase of Firefox 3:

1. In address bar type:

about:config

2. Find in filter field:

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

set them both to “true” (double click on the row). This adjusts the pipelining settings.

2. Find filter:

network.http.pipelining.maxrequests

set it to 8 (feel free to change the number to – the article http://kb.mozillazine.org/Network.http.pipelining.maxrequests suggests 8).

3. Right-click on any setting and select ‘new’ and then ‘integer’.
Set the name to

nglayout.initialpaint.delay

(you might want to copy & paste it) and set the value to “0″ (zero). This removes the render delay.

4. Restart Firefox 3.

Tags | Firefox, Howto, Speed Up, Tips and Tricks