How To: Speed up firefox

YouTube · Post by **ViciousXUSMC** » 30 May 2007, 16:33

I use IE almost all the time, last time I tried firefox it hated me. But im giving it a second chance.

If you have a faster internet connection (avoid this if your dial up or somthing) I found these tweaks really make things go along faster.

I use Verizon Fios 15mb/s down 2mb/s up for reference.

1.Type â€œabout:configâ€

Post by **ctrlsteef** » 30 May 2007, 16:47

Dude, you are my biggest friend. I was really getting pissed of latelly on how slow pages loaded for me but this solved it. I absolutelly fly across the net now. :P

I bow for you my friend. :bowdown

YouTube · Post by **ViciousXUSMC** » 30 May 2007, 16:53

Cool, glad it was of some use.

IE7 is still just as fast for me, I know im baised since thats the only browser I have used for a long time, so im opening every page on both of them to compare lol.

Post by **ctrlsteef** » 30 May 2007, 16:58

Well, the only decent browsers that I have are Safari and Firefox of witch I find Firefox the best. Safari does load pages faster though but now that isn't the fact anymore. :P Firefox just became a whole lot better. :P

Post by **Paddy the Wak** » 30 May 2007, 17:58

I have no where near your connection speed ... but I can see a difference ... thanks buddy ... 8)

Post by **MobsterOO7** » 30 May 2007, 20:53

Holy crap you have FiOS.

Anyway this worked pretty good, I'm using Verizon DSL at 768kbs and I'm speeding along like never before!

DaFox · Post by **DaFox** » 30 May 2007, 21:04

Theres also a firefox addon that does this for you its called Faster Fox and it works just as good and is simple to use.

Post by **MobsterOO7** » 30 May 2007, 21:41

Theres also a firefox addon that does this for you its called Faster Fox and it works just as good and is simple to use.

I don't know about you, but FasterFox made my internet surfing experience SLOW AS HELL.

packerfan · Post by **packerfan** » 30 May 2007, 22:04

yea i knew about the pipelining parts i did that a while ago and noticed a slight speed increase now ill have to try the final one... im surprised i didnt think of posting the pipelining thing here...

There is a noticeable speedup for me :D

My broadband connection scored this after mods... speed tests dont change much from these but overall page response and loading does

YouTube · Post by **ViciousXUSMC** » 31 May 2007, 04:07

This wont change your speed test results at all. It has to do with how you connect to a web page.

I ran a speakeasy test earlier today and got 147xx mb/s down and 17xx mb/s up. Thats really close to what I am supposed to get so I cant complane.

skeeder · Post by **skeeder** » 31 May 2007, 05:26

I changed it...should be interesting thanks!

Post by **g00seberry** » 31 May 2007, 10:54

I could say i've noticed a difference, but it may just be in me head.
Whether things are actually loading faster I'm not sure, it may be that i'm just paying attention now and counting the seconds.

Most of the sites i go on were instant loaders before anyway. But still, nice tweak and good to have.

Violent Ken · Post by **Violent Ken** » 02 Jun 2007, 16:42

besides those tweaks, which are nice, try an unofficial build like moox, stipe or my fav tete

info here

http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewforum.php?f=42&sid=d60630b6a9e875b4099261a1555d2d25

illy · Post by **illy** » 28 Jan 2008, 21:17

omg, thanks for this. this is amazingly faster. GENIUS!

Cynagen · Post by **Cynagen** » 28 Jan 2008, 22:52

Man, I've known about this configuration change for forever, I just thought it was common knowledge by now... Oh well... If you guys want Firefox to open up even faster, look into Firefox Preloader.

Unr3al · Post by **Unr3al** » 03 Apr 2008, 11:53

Thanks, im gonna try it :)

supersupra · Post by **supersupra** » 26 Oct 2008, 17:56

wow, it works great. Thank you! :shock:

maryparker · Post by **maryparker** » 07 Jan 2011, 07:24

Be sure you have the latest version of Firefox 3.6.6. Some of the older versions may have had issues. I did a Google search and only found the postings for upload speed issues from 2009 and back.

maryparker · Post by **maryparker** » 11 Mar 2011, 09:05

Here's a useful resource for speeding up Firefox 4: http://www.computingunleashed.com/speed-up-firefox-4-tweaks.html

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