Last December we showed you how to make Firefox faster and now we have found another tip that could speed up and fix those lockups you might be experiencing with Firefox.
- Disable the autoupdate feature in switchproxy (Note: This will cause you to lose the update link to pull from)
- Disable check for notification of switchproxy updates.
Also disabling User Agent switcher should improve performance slightly if you have that extension installed.
Every page load the User Agent Switcher checks if it needs to update the toolbar button to indicate whether a non-default user agent is active, but that is all.
Disabling the extension will get you a minor speed improvement as it won’t be doing this check, but this should be extremely insignificant.
Question: How to make firefox browser upto ten times faster.
Answer: Here is a small set of changes that has to be made to make your firefox browser upto ten times faster.
1. Type “about:config” into the address bar and hit enter. Scroll down and look for the following entries:
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 recieves.
Try this and you can see the difference âŠâŠâŠ!!
Enjoy
Rohit
Firefox hangs on certain tabs, any advice?
I might have about 3 to 6 tabs open, mostly static ones with the pages already loaded, and then when I open a new tab and go to gmail or microsoft, or something it simply hangs, for minutes on end. The tab gets the loading icon (rotating circle of dots), as if it was trying to load the page, but nothing happens. The page times out (error: The connection was reset), or sometimes it loads eventually, if you wait like at least 5 minutes. Opening the same link in IE is rocket fast (so its down to the browser, not my connection).
Im on firefox 1.5.0.4
I am experiencing the exact same thing: have about 4 tabs open but when I try to open another (any web site) it hangs and does not load. I found that Opera is best to use at this stage because it’s so incredibly fast and much safer than IE but not as safe as Firefox. Opera seems to load pages in a random access type of way wheras Firefox seems to try to load pages sequentially so that when it loses it’s connection, it can’t recover. It is a bug I think Mozilla needs to look at! Do it quick because I don’t like Opera’s interface…it’s ugly!
When I want to run/load the firefox for first time {whenever there was no firefox explorer running at that time, even if I run it a moment before and then close it} It takes too long to run, about 45 seconds or even 1 minute. But it wasn’t like this 3 months before. What Should I do?
Install fasterfox doh
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so how do I set Alter the entries as follows:
Set “network.http.pipelining” to “true”
Set “network.http.proxy.pipelining” to “true”
they are currently false. when I highlight them I cannt change the values
ok I figured it out
i went into about:config and changed the settings as listed above-still takes too long. about 1 minute to load anything. its always “waiting for”so-and-so a site, or “transferring data” from a site. it never used to be like this. what am i doing wrong?
Speeding up firefox page loading times is easy, just edit the about config settings in the browser and it will be running much faster see here http://www.nettechguide.com/how-to-speed-up-firefox-page-loading-times/
I have the same problem as Mickey above. All was well. Today, a tech formatted and reinstalled Windows and I installed Firefox. Put in the usual options. Facebook took 62 seconds to load one page. Most sites have ‘waiting for’ in the status bar. Tried pipelining options, disabling certain parts of AVG, etc. as other sites have advised, to no avail. CPU usage for Firefox 3 appears abnormally high (80–97 per cent) in some cases.
thanks Rohit I got immediate results from your instructions.
very good and thank you.
will add this fix to my library.
hahaha it works :)
Seeing how the last post was in 2009 are there any “new” configs on the firefox for 2010?
Nope, FF hasn’t changed anything in their browser engine for over 8 yrs. All the basic engineering is still the same and takes the same hacks to speed it up. I think they need to start from scratch and build an entirely NEW FF that is SMALL but powerful for those of us that only us our browsers for speed, downloading, gaming and p2p. Fasterfox just doesn’t have the muscle.