Wednesday, May 13, 2009

Firefox tweaks

Here are some tweaks to speed up your browsing speed with Mozilla Firefox...

- Open Firefox
- Type 'about:config' on the address bar and press 'Enter' key

Change the following values to increase the speed:
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network.http.pipelining: true
network.http.proxy.pipelining: true
network.http.pipelining.maxrequests: 8

network.http.max-connections: 96
network.http.max-connections-per-server: 32


Do not open new tab window next to current
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browser.tabs.insertRelatedAfterCurrent --> False


Disable Anti-virus scanning
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browser.download.manager.scanWhenDone: false


Open search bar results in new tab
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browser.search.openintab: true


Load Firefox faster first time
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- Right click on Firefox shortcut, then choose Properties
- On Target field, Add /prefetch:1 at the end of the path with space in between.

Eg: “C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\firefox.exe” /prefetch:1



Enjoy faster browsing :)