How-to: Speed Up Firefox
March 7th, 2008By default Firefox only opens one connection at a time when loading a web page.
On fast broadband connections this isn’t usually too much of a problem but should your speed drop at busy times, or if pages seems to load slowly there’s a great little tweak you can implement called “Pipelining”.
It’s also beneficial to fast connections as speed increases can still be seen.
Once ‘pipelining’ is set-up Firefox, will (by default) open many connections simultaneously to the website and retrieve the all the page’s elements in one go. Even on my fast broadband connection this has made a huge difference to my browsing page load times.
To enable Pipelining follow the simple steps below (it looks harder than it really is, in fact it’s fairly simple):
- In the Firefox address bar enter: about:config and press return/enter
This displays the internal configuration and system settings of Firefox - If prompted, accept the warning message that cautions against modifying the system settings:
- In the filter/search field enter: network.http
- This restricts the list to the entries for the HTTP protocol
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