Firefox is in my opinion the best browser ever made until now.
It includes:
improved tabbed browsing
pop up blocking
integrated Goggle search
enhanced privacy controls
built-in phishing protection
online spell checking
lots of themes, interfaces, and extensions/addons
Mozilla Firefox officially supports:
Microsoft Windows
Linux
Mac OS X
Unofficial Support:
Free BSD
OS/2
Solaris
SkyOS
BeOS
XP Professional x64 Edition
Now here are some Tips&Tricks that can help you double the speed of Firefox.
1.Typeabout:configin the address bar and then press Enter.
2.In the filter search bar typenetwork.http.pipeliningBe sure the
value field is settrue,if not double-click to set true. HTTP is the
application-layer protocol that most web pages are transferred with.
In HTTP 1.1, multiple requests can be sent before any responses are
received. This is known as pipelining. Pipelining reduces page loading
times, but not all servers support it.
3.Go back to the filter search bar and
typenetwork.http.pipelining.maxrequestsDouble-click this option and
set its value to8.
4.In the filter search bar and typenetwork.http.proxy.pipeliningOnce
opened doubleclick on it and set it totrue.
5.In IPv6-capable DNS servers, an IPv4 address may be returned when an
IPv6 address is requested. It is possible for Mozilla to recover from
this misinformation, but a significant delay is introduced.
Typenetwork.dns.disableIPv6in the filter search bar and set this
option totrueby double clicking on it.
6.CONTENT INTERRUPT PARSING
This preference controls if the application will interrupt parsing a
page to respond to UI events. It does not exist by default.Right-click
(Apple users ctrl-click) anywhere in theabout:configwindow,
selectNewand thenBooleanfrom the pop-up menu. Then:
A. Entercontent.interrupt.parsingin the New boolean value pop-up
window and click OK
B. When prompted to choose the value for the new boolean,
selecttrueand click OK.
7.Rather than wait until a page has completely downloaded to display
it to the user, Mozilla applications will regularly render what has
been received to that point. This option controls the maximum amount
of time the application will be unresponsive while rendering pages.
Right-click (Apple users ctrl-click) anywhere in
theabout:configwindow, selectNewand thenIntegerfrom the pop-up menu.
A. Entercontent.max.tokenizing.timein the New integer value pop-up
window and click OK
B. You will be prompted to enter a value. Enter2250000and click OK.
8.CONTENT NOTIFY INTERVAL
This option sets the minimum amount of time to wait between reflows.
Right-click (Apple users ctrl-click) anywhere in
theabout:configwindow, selectNewand thenIntegerfrom the pop-up menu.
A. Typecontent.notify.intervalin the New integer value pop-up window
and click OK.
B. You will be prompted to enter a value. Enter750000and click OK.
9.CONTENT NOTIFY ONTIMER
A. This option sets if to reflow pages at an interval any higher than
that specified by content.notify.interval. Right-click (Apple users
ctrl-click) anywhere in theabout:configwindow and selectNewand
thenBooleanfrom the pop-up menu.
B. Typecontent.notify.ontimerin the New boolean value pop-up window
and click OK.
C. You will be prompted to choose the value for the new boolean.
Selecttrueand click OK.
10.Notify Backoffcount
This option controls the maximum number of times the content will do
timer-based reflows. After this number has been reached, the page will
only reflow once it is finished downloading. Right-click (Apple users
ctrl-click) anywhere in theabout:configwindow and selectNewand
thenIntegerfrom the pop-up menu.
A. Entercontent.notify.backoffcountin the New integer value pop-up
window and click OK.
B. You will be prompted to enter a value. Enter5and click OK.
11.CONTENT SWITCH THRESHOLD
You can interact with a loading page when content.interrupt.parsing is
set to true. When a page is loading, the application has two modes: a
high frequency interrupt mode and a low frequency interrupt mode. The
first one interrupts the parser more frequently to allow for greater
UI responsiveness during page load.
The low frequency interrupt mode interrupts the parser less frequently
to allow for quicker page load. The application enters high frequency
interrupt mode when you move the mouse or type on the keyboard and
switch back to low frequency mode when you had no activity for a
certain amount of time. This preference controls that amount of time.
Right-click (Apple users ctrl-click) anywhere in theabout:configwindow
and selectNewand thenIntegerfrom the pop-up menu.
A. Entercontent.switch.thresholdin the New integer value pop-up window
and click OK.
B. You will be prompted to enter a value. Enter750000and click OK.
12.NGLAYOUT INITIALPAINT DELAY
Mozilla applications render web pages incrementally, they display
whatAca,-a"cs been received
of a page before the entire page has been downloaded. Since the start
of a web page
normally doesnAca,-a"ct have much useful information to display,
Mozilla applications will wait
a short interval before first rendering a page. This preference
controls that interval. Rightclick (Apple users ctrl-click) anywhere
in theabout:configwindow and selectNewand thenIntegerfrom the pop-up
menu.
A. Enternglayout.initialpaint.delayin the New integer value pop-up
window and click OK.
B. You will be prompted to enter a value. Enter0and click OK.
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