HTTP Pipelining

Change these settings to speed up Firefox by increasing the maximum number of simultaneous downloads from a site. Only change the settings that are in this article. Changing other settings could result in unexpected performance. This is only recommended for broadband users as dial-up users will see no speed or minimal speed difference. If you don’t feel comfortable changing these settings by config there is a great extension by Edwin Martin that does exactly this and more. Click here to check it out.

1)Type “about:config” into the address bar and hit return. Scroll down and look for the following entries:

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

Normally the browser will make one request to a web page at a time. When you enable pipelining it will make several at once, which speeds up page loading immensely.

2) Change following entries:

Set “network.http.pipelining” to “true”

Set “network.http.proxy.pipelining” to “true”

Set “network.http.pipelining.maxrequests” to some number like 30. This means it will make 30 requests at once. If you are using dial-up only set it to around 8 or 9 as setting it to high will overload your connection.

3. Last right-click anywhere and select New-> Integer. Name it “nglayout.initialpaint.delay” and set its value to “0″. This value is the amount of time the browser waits before it acts on information it receives.