Speed up Firefox browser

There are ways to increase your browsing speed with firefox:

Tweak the browser

1. Start Firefox and type: about:config in the address bar
2. Type network.http.pipe in the Filter search bar on top
3. Double click on the network.http.pipelining string to change its value to TRUE.
If you use a proxy, set network.http.proxy.pipelining to TRUE as well.
4. Double click on the network.http.pipelining.maxrequests string to change its interger value to 35.
5. Right click anywhere on the Configuration screen and select "New" and then "Boolean".
6. Enter browser.turbo.enabled as the new Boolean name and click "Ok". Now set the value of the Boolean to TRUE

Browser settings

1. Disable Images
Firefox allows you to disable loading images automatically. To disable image in your Firefox browser, from the menu bar choose Tools-Options-Content and uncheck "Load images automatically".

2. Disable Stylesheets
Disabling stylesheets help to keep website load times down as well. From the file menu choose View-Page Style and select "No Style". It's important to note that websites will display differently with their stylesheets disabled, but in most cases the navigation will not be negatively affected.


Using add-on or software

- Download Fasterfox (Requires Firefox 1.5 - 2.0)

- Download FireTune for Firefox