15 Responses for "Fixing Firefox Slow Downs"

1. Chris Pederick

   May 2nd, 2005 at 6:51 pm

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   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.

2. Rohit

   May 11th, 2006 at 1:11 am

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   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 


!!
   Enjoy
   Rohit

3. huge

   July 20th, 2006 at 5:38 am

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   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

4. tester#100

   August 22nd, 2006 at 2:01 pm

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   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!

5. nasr

   September 17th, 2006 at 4:35 am

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   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?

6. Big Dad

   November 15th, 2006 at 3:48 am

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   Install fasterfox doh

7. Coleman

   December 18th, 2006 at 8:15 am

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   Yo! Cool stuff! Thanks for being here.
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8. Coleman

   December 18th, 2006 at 8:16 am

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   Yo! Cool stuff! Thanks for being here.
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9. Stephen Zimmett

   January 15th, 2007 at 9:23 am

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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

10. Stephen Zimmett

    January 15th, 2007 at 9:45 am

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    ok I figured it out

11. mickey

    July 4th, 2008 at 1:21 pm

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    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?

12. anonymous

    September 19th, 2008 at 7:19 pm

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    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/

13. Jack Yan

    November 28th, 2008 at 6:15 am

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    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.

14. brado

    May 27th, 2009 at 11:44 am

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    thanks Rohit I got immediate results from your instructions.
    very good and thank you.

    will add this fix to my library.

15. Sandie

    September 3rd, 2009 at 2:06 am

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    hahaha it works :)