Broadband Users - Speed up Firefox
Posted by admin | 
February 10th, 2008
This is not necessarily an affiliate marketing related topic. However, browser speed can make your life a lot easier when working online, especially for those of us specializing in affiliate sales and marketing and other online ventures.
Having tested and used several different browsers I can honestly say that my preference is Mozilla Firefox. Being a recent convert to Broadband, I must confess that I was somewhat disappointed in my new ‘high speed’ service. Being faster than dial-up, it was still quite slow, which was quite a disappointment.
However, I discovered that the slowness wasn’t altogether the fault of the broadband connection. Some of the problem was related to Firefox. Once I made the changes detailed below to my Firefox Browers, I was amazed at how much faster pages load.
Making Firefox faster is a relatively easy procedure. Just follow the instructions below and be prepared to be amazed!
HOW TO CONFIGURE AND SPEED UP YOUR FIREFOX BROWSER
1.Type “about:config” into the address bar and hit return. Then 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 MUCH faster now!
