8 Hacks to Make Firefox Ridiculously Fast

You ARE using Firefox for your web browsing, right?

If the answer is no, i HOPE it's because you're using Safari, Opera, or Google Chrome ;-).

But for the rest of you (and those of you still trudging along with IE who have yet to make the move), today's FamilyFirst pick is for you.

It's a British tech site called 8 Hacks to Make Firefox Ridiculously Fast.

If you make the eight changes to Firefox, you too will find your browsing experience greatly enhanced, speed-wise.

Check out this example:

Browsers are normally very polite, sending a request to a server then waiting for a response before continuing. Pipelining is a more aggressive technique that lets them send multiple requests before any responses are received, often reducing page download times. To enable it, type about:config in the address bar, double-click network.http.pipelining and network.http.proxy.pipelining so their values are set to true, then double-click network.http.pipelining.maxrequests and set this to 8. Keep in mind that some servers don't support pipelining, though, and if you regularly visit a lot of these then the tweak can actually reduce performance. Set network.http.pipelining and network.http.proxy.pipelining to false again if you have any problems.

I made this particular change ages ago. The most dramatic difference comes when i download songs that I've bought. I can get a dozen songs on the way at the same time!

Check out the site, and speed up your browsing...

http://www.pcanswers.co.uk/node/4627

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