If you�re using Firefox and if you have broadband, you can speed up your surfing with the following simple little hack. If you�re using dialup it might help a little bit. If the idea of messing with internal files makes you nervous, maybe you should skip it altogether.

  1. Open Firefox (Fx), type about:config into the address bar, and hit return.
  2. Locate the following entries:
    • network.http.pipelining
    • network.http.proxy.pipelining
    • network.http.pipelining.maxrequests
  3. Double click each entry, and alter them as below:
    • Set network.http.pipelining to true. As set initially, Fx loads only one page at a time. Enabling pipelining causes it to load several at once, which makes switching from page to page much faster.
    • Set network.http.proxy.pipelining to true.
    • Set network.http.pipelining.maxrequests to 30. This causes Fx to request 30 pages at once. (I changed mine to 100 and it works perfectly, but I’ve got lots of memory. I wouldn’t go over thirty unless you have at least 512 MB of RAM.)
  4. Right-click anywhere on the page and select New – Integer. Name it nglayout.initialpaint.delay and set its value to 0. This changes the amount of time that Fx waits to act on information.

Your pages should load noticeably faster. Enjoy!

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