This tweak can easily be found all over the internet. This tweak is for broadband users (do people even use dialup anymore?). When you go to a website, Firefox will make a single request to the web page at a time. This tweak changes that so Firefox makes several requests at once, thus speeding up how long it takes for page to load.
- Type ‘about:config‘ into the address bar and hit enter (obviously with no ” ” characters).
- This should bring you to Firefox’s configuration “page”.
- Find the following entries and make the following changes:
- Set network.http.pipelining to ‘true’
- Set network.http.proxy.pipelining to ‘true’
- Set network.http.pipelining.maxrequests between 3-5.
- NOTE: If you make this number too large, you can really cause a headache. For example, if you set it to 30 when you go to any site, you can possibility make 30 requests to it at once. This can cause issues with page loading, and it can piss off whoever runs that site. Play around and find a low number that works for you.
- Right-Click anywhere and select New->Integer. Call it nglayout.initialpaint.delay and give it a value of 0. This value is the amount of time the browser waits before it acts on the information it receives.
- Restart Firefox (not sure if this is required, can’t hurt) and you’re all set.
Enjoy a slightly faster internet experience.
myself, I have network.http.pipelining.maxrequests set to 50 and haven’t had any problems