Many users switch over to websurfing using Firefox from IE because they’ve been told it’s faster, more reliable and well just better than Microsoft. Yes I have no doubt that all of that may well be true, but some do experience the fact that Firefox isn’t so much faster at all. This can especially be the case when you haven’t got a good quality broadband and being able to use every bit of your connection to the full means alot.

Here in this post, we’ll show you a few easy tricks you can do to tweak your Firefox browser faster and better, it’ll only take you about two minutes to do :)

We have found two ways to do this, both should equally speed up your Firefox in the same way.

Method #1

According to MoreMerchant, by default, Firefox is optimized for dialup connections and not broadband, therefore the following steps will help you change your Firefox for the better:

1. Type ?about:config? into the address bar and hit return. Type ?network.http? in the filter field, and change the following settings (double-click on them to change them):
2. Set ?network.http.pipelining? to ?true?
3. Set ?network.http.proxy.pipelining? to ?true?
4. Set ?network.http.pipelining.maxrequests? to 30. This will allow it to make 30 requests at one time. Originally I tried 100 here and it didn?t seem to help. When I went with 30 I noticed an improvement.
5. 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.

Method #2 following after the break (reading method #2 is advised before performing method #1)…

Method #2

The second method involves much fewer steps and it’s probably more suitable for less advanced users.

All you need to do is downloadFasterfox“, an add-on for Firefox which I believe does the same tweak to your browser.

After restarting your Firefox following installation of the add-on, you can go back to Add-ons via Tools and configure the Options for Fasterfox, here is what it will allow you to do:

Fasterfox for Firefox

Ideally I would choose “Turbo Charged” to save the hassle, but advanced users could certainly configure your own setting as well.

And that’s it, which ever method you choose, you should get faster browsing than before!

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