Ultimate FireFox Guide
For anybody who does not know, Mozilla Firefox is an alternative internet browser that outdoes Internet Explorer in many ways. If you fancy giving it a go it is available from Here. Please note that this tweak works for broadband/cable users only, it does not affect 56k users.
Cable/Broadband Tweaks
Type 'about:config' in the address bar and this will bring up the configuration options for the Firefox browser.
Find the following values...
network.http.pipelining
network.http.proxy.pipelining
network.http.pipelining.maxrequests
browser.turbo.enabled
network.dns.disableIPv6
And then...
Set network.http.pipelining to True
Set network.http.proxy.pipelining to True
Pipelining sets the browser to make multiple requests to a web page at one time.
Set network.http.pipelining.maxrequests to 20
This is the maximum number of requests to make to the web page at a time.
Set browser.turbo.enabled to True
Set network.dns.disableIPv6 to True
Now right click anywhere and click New, Integer. Name it "nglayout.initialpaint.delay". Set its value to "0".
This sets the amount of time that the browser waits before acting on the information that it receives.
More Firefox Tweaks
These are the tweaks that you probably haven't seen before and that I am currently adding to the list so keep checking back.
Cache Size Tweak
Firefox 1.0 is defaulted to use 51MB of your RAM cache which really is quite a lot if you are running other applicatins at the same time. This tweak allows you to set the maximum size cache that Firefox uses. Please note that this does not directley make Firefox faster but it can speed up your computer in general.
In the about:config screen create a new integer value and name it...
"browser.cache.memory.capacity"
Set its value to the maximum size of the cache you want Firefox to use in Kilobytes. I set mine to 20000 to use 20MB of cache. Restart Firefox for the changes to take affect.
Speed Up Loading Of Firefox In XP
In Windows XP you can speed up the loading of programs by making it one of the programs that XP "Prefetches". Prefetching works by letting XP have portions of a program already loaded to your hard drive. To do this for Firefox, find the Start Menu entry for Firefox and right click it, then select properties. In the 'Target' box add the following line at the end of the file path.
/Prefetch:1
Your Target box should now look something like this.
"C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\firefox.exe" /Prefetch:1
Customized Versions Of Firefox For Your CPU
Because different CPU's operate in different ways and have different instructions, a developer called MOOX has written builds of Firefox for certain families of CPU. Most current CPU's will need to run the M3 build.
Find the Build Descriptions Here
Find the Program Downloads Here
Visit the MOOX homepage Here
Cheers,
Dave
The information on this page was gathered from various sources including www.moox.ws, windowssecrets.com and techrepublic.com
(Please note this was originaly posted by Dave, but due to server problems got removed)
For anybody who does not know, Mozilla Firefox is an alternative internet browser that outdoes Internet Explorer in many ways. If you fancy giving it a go it is available from Here. Please note that this tweak works for broadband/cable users only, it does not affect 56k users.
Cable/Broadband Tweaks
Type 'about:config' in the address bar and this will bring up the configuration options for the Firefox browser.
Find the following values...
network.http.pipelining
network.http.proxy.pipelining
network.http.pipelining.maxrequests
browser.turbo.enabled
network.dns.disableIPv6
And then...
Set network.http.pipelining to True
Set network.http.proxy.pipelining to True
Pipelining sets the browser to make multiple requests to a web page at one time.
Set network.http.pipelining.maxrequests to 20
This is the maximum number of requests to make to the web page at a time.
Set browser.turbo.enabled to True
Set network.dns.disableIPv6 to True
Now right click anywhere and click New, Integer. Name it "nglayout.initialpaint.delay". Set its value to "0".
This sets the amount of time that the browser waits before acting on the information that it receives.
More Firefox Tweaks
These are the tweaks that you probably haven't seen before and that I am currently adding to the list so keep checking back.
Cache Size Tweak
Firefox 1.0 is defaulted to use 51MB of your RAM cache which really is quite a lot if you are running other applicatins at the same time. This tweak allows you to set the maximum size cache that Firefox uses. Please note that this does not directley make Firefox faster but it can speed up your computer in general.
In the about:config screen create a new integer value and name it...
"browser.cache.memory.capacity"
Set its value to the maximum size of the cache you want Firefox to use in Kilobytes. I set mine to 20000 to use 20MB of cache. Restart Firefox for the changes to take affect.
Speed Up Loading Of Firefox In XP
In Windows XP you can speed up the loading of programs by making it one of the programs that XP "Prefetches". Prefetching works by letting XP have portions of a program already loaded to your hard drive. To do this for Firefox, find the Start Menu entry for Firefox and right click it, then select properties. In the 'Target' box add the following line at the end of the file path.
/Prefetch:1
Your Target box should now look something like this.
"C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\firefox.exe" /Prefetch:1
Customized Versions Of Firefox For Your CPU
Because different CPU's operate in different ways and have different instructions, a developer called MOOX has written builds of Firefox for certain families of CPU. Most current CPU's will need to run the M3 build.
Find the Build Descriptions Here
Find the Program Downloads Here
Visit the MOOX homepage Here
Cheers,
Dave
The information on this page was gathered from various sources including www.moox.ws, windowssecrets.com and techrepublic.com
(Please note this was originaly posted by Dave, but due to server problems got removed)
