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Yes, firefox is already pretty damn fast but did you know that you can tweak it and improve the speed even more?

That's the beauty of this program being open source.
Here's what you do:
In the URL bar, type about:config and press enter. This will bring up the configuration menu where you can change the parameters of Firefox.

Note that these are what Ive found to REALLY speed up my Firefox significantly - and these settings seem to be common among everybody else as well. But these settings are optimized for broadband connections - I mean with as much concurrent requests were going to open up with pipelining lol youd better have a big connection.

Double Click on the following settins and put in the numbers below - for the true / false booleans - theyll change when you double click.

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browser.tabs.showSingleWindowModePrefs  true
network.http.max-connections  48
network.http.max-connections-per-server  16
network.http.max-persistent-connections-per-proxy  8
network.http.max-persistent-connections-per-server  4
network.http.pipelining  true
network.http.pipelining.maxrequests  100
network.http.proxy.pipelining  true
network.http.request.timeout  300


One more thing Right-click somewhere on that screen and add a 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. Since youre broadband - it shouldnt have to wait.

Now you should notice youre loading pages MUCH faster now!
 
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Yea i did this and it deff works. but i cant find "browser.tabs.showSingleWindowModePrefs – true" and "network.http.request.timeout – 300" all the others ones i could.
 
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For me it doesn't seem like it did anything. Also, same as them, I couldn't find the first and last.
 
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Yah this tut is old I think old versions had the last two, but this worked for me
 
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This one is the easiest "Speeding Up Firefox" Tut to follow!
 
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i dont have the time to list them but my tut has them. not saying yours is bad
 
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