Many of you have been asking me how to increase their browsing speeds with BSNL, MTNL, Airtel, Tata Indicom, Reliance, Sify, etc Broadband connections. As usual I have a trick up my sleeves to increase the speed your Firefox performance.
The below steps will hold good only if you have a Broadband connection – else it will make your browsing much slower. Let’s now have a look at the simple 4 steps.
First of all Type “about:config” into the address bar in Firefox and hit return. Scroll down and look for the following entries and make the necessary changes.
You will need to enable Pipelining in Firefox. Normally the browser will make one request to a web page at a time. When you enable pipelining it will make several request at once, which will substantially speed up your page loading times.
Alter the entries as follows:
- Change “network.http.pipelining” to “true”
- Change “network.http.proxy.pipelining” to “true”
- Also, change “network.http.pipelining.maxrequests” to a number like 40. This in turn means that Firefox will make 40 requests at once.
- Finally right-click anywhere in Firefox and select New-> Integer. Name it “nglayout.initialpaint.delay” and set its value to “0?. This value is the amount of time the browser waits before it acts on information it receives – so we ask it not to wait even a second!!
You’ll now see that the web pages in Firefox load MUCH faster now!
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