Tricks to speed up Firefox

From the blog of Carlos Leopoldo find a series of tricks, 8 to be exact, that will allow us to accelerate browsing faster and make our beloved Mozilla Firefox . Definitely a great help because sometimes the " fire fox "often fall short in speed when compared to other browsers like Google Chrome or Opera. Here are the tricks:

1. Enable Pipelining

Browsers usually wait for a request to the web server is answered to send another request, but Pipelining is a more aggressive technique that sends multiple requests before getting a response, it may mean less time to load a web page, to enable the Pipelining type about: config in the Firefox address bar and press enter, then find the value ofnetwork.http.pipelining and network.http.proxy.pipelining and change these values ​​true , then look for value network.http . pipelining.maxrequests and change its value by 8 .Beware Neste trick because if you visit a website can often be mistaken for a malignant bot and the webmaster of the site may banearte.

2. Render quickly

A long and complex website, it may take some time to load, so Firefox does not like to leave you waiting, so by default will be showing it receives every 0.12 seconds, we can reduce this time to increase the loading time of a page, but this lowers the performance of the computer. To modify write about: config in the Firefox address bar and press enter, then give right-click anywhere on the page and click on New -> Integer and type in the name: content.notify.interval and 500,000 as the value, and click OK, then do the same New -> Integer and type in the name: content.notify.ontimer and True as a value, and click OK.

3. Load Faster

In the address bar, type about: config and press Enter, click the right mouse button anywhere on the page and click on New -> Integer. That type content.switch.threshold as the value name and type 250000 as the value and click OK.

4. Avoid interruptions

In the address bar, type about: config and press Enter, click the right mouse button anywhere on the page and click on New -> Boolean. That type content.interrupt.parsing as the value name and type False as the value and click OK.

5. Block Flash animations

Intrusive Flash animations are everywhere, and the worst is that annoy and disturb to read the contents of some websites, but fortunately there is an easy solution is to install the extension Flashblock that it does is block all applets Flash, so web pages will display much more quickly. But if you find that it is useful Flash content can view the applet as normal.

6. Cache size increases

For this type about: config and press enter, click on the right mouse button anywhere on the page and click on New -> Integer. That type browser.cache.memory.capacity as the value name and type 65536 as the value and click OK, you must close Firefox and reopen it for the changes to take effect.

7. Enable TraceMonkey

TraceMonkey is a new feature in Firefox that causes slow Javascript is much faster, up to 20 times faster, to use TraceMonkey must install the latest version of Firefox test you candownload here , after installing this version you must enable writing about: config in the address bar and press enter, find the value javascript.options.jit.chrome andjavascript.options.jit.content and change its value to true, you're now using the fastest Javascript engine ever invented.

8. Compress

If you have a slow internet connection then you can install toonel.net which is a tool that compresses data to receive information faster on slow connections.