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.
Say No to Flash
Flash is cool. Flash is present everywhere. Flash is also a little on the irritating side sometimes. Install the Flashblock extension (flashblock.mozdev.org) and it’ll block all Flash applets from loading, so web pages will display a lot more quickly. And in case sometimes you really need to check out a thing or two in Flash while browsing just click its placeholder to download and view the applet as normal.
Increase Cache
When you browse websites Firefox stores the images, scripts etc. temporarily in cache. So if you visit the same website during that time frame, the page is loaded from the cache itself. Increasing the cache size can help if you have good amount of physical memory. Type about:config and press [Enter], then right-click anywhere in the window and select New > Integer. Type browser.cache.memory.capacity, click OK, enter 65536 and click OK, then restart your browser to get the new, larger cache.
Compress Data
If you’re on a slow internet connection, you might think tweaking Firfox just won’t help. Well there’s a workaround for that as well! Install toonel.net (toonel.net) and this clever Java applet will re-route your web traffic through its own server, compressing it at the same time, so there’s much less to download. What’s more? It can even compress JPEGs across the web. It greatly helps you cut down on data transfer in case you’re subscribed to those cheap stupid data transfer plans from Indian broadband service providers.
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