Tips to make Firefox Faster than ever you have experienced !!
Before
I start sharing all the tips && Tricks I wanna make it clear
that, all these can be found by searching google or any other search
engine. Here my effort is to make a compilation of those tips which I
found easy && working. That's all. Enjoy your open world
using firefox !
One
MOST IMPORTANT thing in writing this – I assume that you know
NOTHING about configuring, so I'm explaining each step as clear &&
vivid as possible.
The
basic thing about tweaking the FireFox is to change its internal
settings manually to optimize. Most of these tips work very fine with
those who have a slower INTERNET connection. Say upto [limit] of
2Mbps [with fluctuation]. Now we move to the tips. Enjoy the ride of
customization ! Good LuCK :D
- First of all Open a new tab [click on the “+” sign or Ctrl+T]. Now type in the address bar:
about:config
Now
press enter. You will be warned of this:
Press
on “I'll be careful, I promise”. This is a general warning.
Nothing to worry !
2.
Now set these value to the value provided here. Note that, you will
type each entry at a time and then other. That means one by one in
the search bar.
If
any of the value shown here isn't found, then just add it !
- Set "network.http.pipelining" to "true"
- Set "network.http.proxy.pipelining" to "true"
- Set "network.http.pipelining.maxrequests" to any number you like above 35 but below 250. This is the number of request sent at a time !
- Now right-click anywhere black of the page you are and select New-> Integer. Name it to "nglayout.initialpaint.delay" and set its value to "0". It indicates the amount of time waited to show information to show as the browser gets it.
- Set “network.http.keep-alive” to “true”.
- Set “network.http.version” to “1.1”.
- Set “browser.display.show_image_placeholders” to “false”. [Stops the display of placeholders while images are loading to speed up the page. Default is True]
- Set “browser.tabs.animate” to “false”.
[Disables
all tab animation features (e.g. when you click the ‘New Tab’ (+)
button) to make the tab interface feel quicker. Default is True.]
- Set “network.prefetch-next” to “true”.
This
setting can automatically prefetch (load) the contents of pages
linked to
by the page you are viewing e.g. to load the homepage in the
background, making it quicker for you to view next if you want to.
To
take advantage of increased speed when browsing websites which use
prefetch, keep this setting at the Default which is True.
[Some
view prefetch as a possible security risk and disable it. My current
view is that it isn’t a major concern – if a site is bad, it will
just load bad stuff on the current page anyway without needing to
prefetch it from elsewhere]
- Set “network.http.max-persistent-connections-per-server” to “8”.
Increases
the maximum number of persistent connections per server which can
help speed up loading of multimedia rich sites. Default is 6
- Set “browser.sessionhistory.max_total_viewer” to “0”.
- Set “browser.tabs.animate” to “False”.
3.
Update your firefox regularly. Since this comes with numerous bugs
fixed each time with new features.
4.
Use less add-ons.
5.
Remove your unused add-ons, this will save huge Megabyte of
space on your RAM and Hard Disk as well.
–>Select
Firefox (or Tools from the menu bar) then Add-ons to open the Add-ons
Manager. Click on Extensions and, if you no longer need an extension,
Remove it – if in doubt, at least Disable it.
6.
Update
extensions – the
easiest way to always keep extensions up to date is to open the
Add-ons Manager and click the Tools ‘cog’ at the top then select
(tick) ‘Update Add-ons Automatically’.
To
perform a manual update, click the Tools ‘cog’ then select ‘Check
for Updates’ and apply any that are found.
7.
Disable plugins you do not need
– as with extensions,
the more plugins you have enabled, the more problems Firefox may
encounter:
Open the
Add-ons Manager. Click on Plugins and, if you do not need a plugin,
disable it. If you disable a specific plugin and ever do visit a site
that needs it, just re-enable it. [The only
plugins enabled on my system are Shockwave Flash and Silverlight for
streaming videos. Amongst my disabled plugins are Microsoft DRM x 2,
Quicktime, VLC, Windows Media Player and Google Update - none of
which I have ever needed].
8.
Update plugins
– plugins from third
parties such as Adobe and Oracle are often targeted by malicious
websites so it is important to keep them up to date (and new versions
often include performance benefits).
9. Don’t
Load Tabs Until Selected
If you
have set the option to ‘Show my windows and tabs from last time’
(in Options \ General) when Firefox starts, it may have to load
multiple tabs – keen users may have dozens of open tabs which
Firefox has to load in
full each time it starts.
This can really slow down the time it takes to open Firefox – a
common complaint. To greatly speed up the loading process:
- In Options \ Tabs tick the ‘Don’t load tabs until selected’ box and press OK – this menu option will still open all your saved tabs when Firefox starts but will only load the current tab which can save a lot of time.
‘Don’t
load tabs until selected’ – in Tabs menu
10.
Click on any empty space and add these values:
Right
Click –> New– > Integer or String or Boolean
[N.B.:
Integer values take numbers, Boolean values are wither True or False]
“network.dns.disableIPv6”:
set “false”
“content.notify.backoffcount”: set “5“; (Five)
“plugin.expose_full_path”: set “true”.
“ui.submenuDelay”: set “0; (zero)
“content.notify.backoffcount”: set “5“; (Five)
“plugin.expose_full_path”: set “true”.
“ui.submenuDelay”: set “0; (zero)
“content.switch.threshold”
to
“250000”
(a quarter of a second)
“content.interrupt.parsing”
set the value to “False”
“browser.cache.memory.capacity”
click
OK, enter
“65536”
Now
close it and Re-Start your Firefox. You'll damn see the difference
with ever faster, smarter firefox ;). It's now too cool to illustrate
!
If you have any
queries, you can leave that in the comment, we will try our best to
answer that.
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