So you use Mozilla FireFox and have a BroadBand Connection but web pages still seem to load a little slow. Anyone who has ever browsed the Internet will have came across adverts saying “Speed Up Your Internet Connection 600%” and the likes which i hasten to add are all complete rubbish; steer well clear of these tools.

The technique described below has been proven to work for many users glitch free, and as it modifies the FireFox Web Browser can easily be removed by reversing the edits you made to the FireFox Configuration file.

So what does this Modification do?. Your existing web browser configuration will make one request to a web page at a time, as do most web browsers currently on the internet. This is due to Firefox’s configuration for the pipelines, which you can take advantage of that by making some simple modifications to its configuration file.

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1. Type “about:config” into the address bar in FireFox 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 really speeds up page loading.

2. Alter the entries as follows:

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.

3. Lastly 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.

If you’re using a broadband connection you’ll load pages 2-30 times faster now.

enjoy and happy, speedier surfing

NOTE: There is also a plug-in available for tweaking firefox for anyone who doesn’t want to digg into the config file and manually edit the parameters. The plug-in is available to install from the URL below.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1269

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