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I was searching for a way to speed up my broadband connection and found this technique to speed up Firefox. These few simple steps will significantly decrease the page loading time while browsing. This worked for me with Firefox version 2.0.0.3.

Disclaimer: I’m not a Firefox developer. So, I don’t take responsibility if this configuration corrupts your browser. Use at your own risk.

1. Open Firefox and type in the following into the address bar: about:config
2. Type the following into the filter field: http.p
3. Right click on network.http.pipelining, select Toggle, change the value to True
4. Right click on network.http.proxy.pipelining, select Toggle, change the value to True
5. Right click on network.http.pipelining.maxrequests, select Modify, change the value to 8
6. Right click anywhere on the page, select New > Integer, call it nglayout.initialpaint.delay and set the value to 0
7. Restart Firefox

Since I have made these configuration changes, I have not had anything negative happen to my browser. The pages load quicker and there is minimal delay when loading a new tab.

Update (3/25/07):

I was looking at response to this post on the World of Warcraft forum. Jamarra had this to say about one of the settings:

This is a bad, bad thing to do. Basically you are hammering the server you want to connect to with almost eight times as many requests as a browser with normal settings would do, for what is going to be a minimal gain in speed (since this is all through one “pipe”, as it were). You might even be mistaken for someone initiating a DoS (denial of service) attack and have your IP or even the entire IP subset of your area blocked by the server!

Set it to 8 or so if you feel you need to speed up the loading of web pages. That can help without causing excess demands on the web server you’re trying to view.

Sounds like a valid point, so I adjusted the network.http.pipelining.maxrequests to 8 instead of the original 30. Thanks for your feedback, Jamarra.

Also see: 21 Must-Have Firefox Add-Ons

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