Enable Pipelining
Your browser talks to the web servers very politely. Obviously you don’t want that since that directly affects your browsing speed. You want the browser to be a mean machine. When you enable pipelining your browser does exactly that. It sends multiple requests before any responses are received. To enable this type about:config in the address bar, double-click network.http.pipelining and network.http.proxy.pipelining so their values are set to true, then double-click network.http.pipelining.maxrequests and set this to 8.
Load Quick
Some websites take ages to load on your browser. Mozilla Firefox doesn’t like to keep you waiting so it displays what all it has loaded every 0.12 seconds. While this thing sounds cool to the browser, it’s not cool for the user. Frequent re-draws of the web page can lead to poor browsing experience. So a longer time makes sense. Type about:config and press [Enter], then right-click in the window and select New > Integer. Type content.notify.interval as your preference name, click OK, enter 500000 (that’s five hundred thousand, not fifty thousand) and click OK again. Right-click again in the window and select New > Boolean. This time create a value called content.notify.ontimer and set it to True to finish the job.
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