Firefox Speed

Hacks to Make Firefox Faster than Google Chrome: Google Chrome has now eclipsed Mozilla Firefox in the speed category. However, I still use Firefox as my main web browser because it is still better than Chrome in certain areas.

But just recently, I tried a few tweaks that significantly improved the speed of Firefox making it a little bit snappier than the latest version of Google Chrome when loading webpages.

Here are some of the things that I did that helps make Firefox somewhat faster than Chrome:

1. Type about:config into the Firefox URL/address bar and hit ENTER. You will be warned that you might void your warranty if you change some advanced settings, but just go on and trust me

2. Inside the Firefox configuration page, scroll down and look for the following entries:

network.http.pipelining
network.http.proxy.pipelining

Set their values to “true” by double-clicking each one of them.

3. Next up, find this entry:

network.http.pipelining.maxrequests

Double-click and set the value to 8.

4. Right-click anywhere inside the config page and select New –> Integer. Name itnglayout.initialpaint.delay and set the value to “0″.

5. Right-click anywhere inside the config page and select New –> Integer. Name itcontent.notify.interval and set the value to “500000″.

6. Right-click anywhere inside the config page and select New –> Boolean. Name itcontent.notify.ontimer and set the value to “true″.

7. Right-click anywhere inside the config page and select New –> Integer. Name itcontent.switch.threshold and set the value to “250000″.

8. Right-click anywhere inside the config page and select New –> Boolean. Name itcontent.interrupt.parsing and set the value to “false″.

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