Though Firefox is pretty faster than the tired old IE, it can become even faster and more responsive. There are some tips listed below, which when followed, can boost up the speed of your Mozilla browser. Not taking more than few minutes, these tips will surely make you satisfied with your browser once followed properly.

• Browsers work by sending a humble request to the server and then waiting for the next response. This takes time, as the browser won’t proceed until it gets a positive response from the server i.e. permission. This is a polite and slow method. An insistent and more powerful method is called “Pipelining.” In this method, the browser sends multiple requests to the server before the server gives any response. This usually results in decreased page download times.

How to do it? Here we have the answer to this question. Simple! Open your browser, type “about:config” in the address bar and click go. Then, double-click network.http.pipelining and network.http.proxy.pipelining, and set then to “true”. Then, double-click network.http.pipelining.maxrequests and set it to “8”. That is all!

Keep in your mind that not every server allows this aggressive browsing method. Constantly visiting such sites will reduce the performance level of this trick. If this happens, you can set the settings to “false” once again.

• Not every web page has a standard size; complex pages are heavier and take more time to get downloaded. Firefox shows whatever it receives after every 0.12 seconds. This is, though, satisfying in a way, but it increases the overall download time. This can be taken care of, too.

• Open your browser, type “about:config” in the address bar and click go. Windows users will right click and Mac users will ctrl click, anywhere in the middle of the window. Select “New”, then “Integer”, and type content.notify.interval in the bar as your preference name and click “ok.” Enter 500000 in the next bar, and click “ok” again. Again, right click and select “New” and then “Boolean”. Paste “content.notify.ontimer” and click ok, and set it to “true”. Not too difficult, is it?
• Firefox loads a page faster once you do not touch your keyboard or mouse for a period of 0.75 seconds. This is called the content switch threshold. Though, it is already a shorter period, but even shortening this period will boost the speed more. You can shorten the content switch threshold by a simple process. Open your browser, type “about:config” in the address bar and click go. Again, right click in the window anywhere and select “new” and then “integer.” Then, type “content.switch.threshold” and press ok. Type “250000” and click ok. Here you go!
• How annoying are the invasive pop up flash applets and animations, which block you from reading the stuff, that you want to, by covering the text. There is a simple solution to this problem. Install the Flashblock extension from flashblock.mozdev.org and such irritating pop ups will just vanish, speeding up your browsers speed. If you want to see a flash animation, you will just have to click its placeholder, download and view it. This is trouble-free, I think!

These were but few tricks which you can follow to boost up your already fast Firefox’s speed. We shall update you with more tricks as soon as we get to know more.

Written by “Seemab”

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