How to speed up Mozilla Firefox browser:
1.
Enabling pipelining Firefox
Including the Firefox browser usually sends a request
to the server and then wait for a response before continuing. Pipelining is a
technique that allows Firefox to send multiple requests before the response is
received, and often this will speed up web page download time. To activate it,
type about: config in the address bar, double click network.http.pipelining and
network.http.proxy.pipelining that value or its value to true, then
double-click network.http.pipelining.maxrequests and enter the value 8.
Keep in mind that some servers do not support
pipelining, and if you visit lots of sites with the server then this trick can
reduce performance. Restore network.http.pipelining and
network.http.proxy.pipelining to a false value if you have a problem.
2.
Accelerate the appearance of Firefox
Pages are large and complex sites is quite time
consuming to download. Firefox does not want to make you wait, so by default
will display what it receives every 0.12 seconds (time interval). Although this
will make Firefox feel faster, making the often will increase the total page
load time, so the longer interval will improve performance.
Type about: config and press Enter, then right-click
in the page that opens it and select New> Integer. Type content.notify.interval
as the preference name, click OK, enter 500 000 (five hundred thousand) and
click OK.
Right-click again on the page and select New>
Boolean. This time content.notify.ontimer type and set the value to True.
3. Speed
up loading
If you are not moving the mouse or touch the keyboard
for 0.75 seconds (content switch threshold) then Firefox enters a low frequency
interrupt mode, which means its interface or its interface becomes less
responsive but the pages load faster. Reducing the content switch threshold can
accelerate the performance of Firefox.
Type about: config and press Enter, right click on the
page and select New> Integer. Type content.switch.threshold, click OK, enter
250000 (a quarter of a second) and click OK.
4.
There was no interruption
You can tell Firefox to ignore user interface reports
until the page finished downloading. This can be a bit drastic as Firefox tries
to be unresponsive for a while, but just try it and see the results.
Type about: config, press Enter, right click and
select New> Boolean. Type content.interrupt.parsing, click OK, set the value
to False and click OK.
5.
Blocking flash
Flash animation is quite disturbing are ubiquitous,
appearing in the content that you really want to read and slow down your browsing.
Fortunately there is a very easy solution. Install the Flashblock extension
(flash block.mozdev.org) and it'll block all Flash applets, so web pages are
displayed more quickly. And if you look at the Flash content that is not
totally useless, click the placeholder to download and view the Flash applet as
usual.
6. Increase
the size of the cache
When you browse the web, Firefox stores images and
scripts from these sites into the local cache memory, which can be quickly
retrieved if you visit the same page. If you have lots of RAM (2 GB of more),
leave Firefox running all the time and regularly return to pages then you can
speed up performance by increasing this cache size.
Type about: config and press Enter, right-click on the
page that opens and select New> Integer. Type browser.cache.memory.capacity,
click OK, enter the value 65536 and click OK, then restart your browser to get
a new, larger cache.
7.
Enabling TraceMonkey
TraceMonkey is a Firefox feature that converts slow
Javascript into super quick x86-based scripts, allowing it to run some
functions of up to 20 times faster than older versions.
You can try this feature to install it from
ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/firefox/nightly/latest-trunk/, run and type about:
config and press Enter. Type JIT in the filter box, then double-click
javascript.options.jit.chrome and javascript.options.jit.content to change its
value to true
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