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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The folks at BSNL Dataone have been kind enough to change my tariff plan from Home 250 to 750 Plus Unlimited for this month. Somehow I feel they’re still screwing me up somewhere. They have changed my plan as I can see that on the Dataone user account panel. The speed as per my plan should be just about 256 kbps i.e around 30 kBps. The speeds I am experiencing have a different tale to tell.

I am getting speeds upto 208 kBps. Mind the B! Somehow my speeds remain the same as per my previous plan but my plan name is changed when I look it up on the backend. Strange. I really hope they don’t mess this for me in the billing section. I don’t want a million dollar bill at my place next month. As of now, let me enjoy some speed!