• Speed up Our Firefox Browser

    Date: 2009.04.02 | Category: Software, Web Front-end | Tags: ,

    So far as we know, Fire­fox is a power­ful and easy-of-use web bro­wser in the world. Alth­rough Chrome is beco­ming better and better, but without exten­sion fun­ctions, Goo­gle Chrome will always be my second choice to use. Indeed, Chrome is much qui­cker than Fire­fox, while it spends more memory spa­ces for its San­dBox model.

    Recen­tly, I saw an arti­cle talked about how to speed up fire­fox by edi­ting some para­me­ters in about:config. Let’s have a try!

    Reduce the amount of RAM Fire­fox uses for its cache fea­ture

    1. Type “about:config” (no quo­tes) in the adress bar in the bro­wser.
    2. Find “browser.sessionhistory.max_total_viewer”
    3. Set it’s value to “0“;(Zero)

    Inc­rease the Speed at Which Fire­fox loads pages

    1. Type “about:config” into the add­ress bar and hit Enter.
    2. Alter the ent­ries as follows:
    Set “network.http.pipelining” to “true”
    Set “network.http.proxy.pipelining” to “true”
    Set “network.http.pipelining.maxrequests” to some number like 10.

    This means it will make 10 reque­sts at once.

    3. Lastly, right-click anywhere and select New-> Inte­ger. Name it “nglayout.initialpaint.delay” and set its value to “0“;.(Zero)

    This value is the amount of time the bro­wser waits before it acts on info­r­ma­tion it receives. If you’re using a broa­dband con­ne­ction you’ll load pages faster now.
    Optio­na­lly (for even faster web bro­wsing) here are some more options for your about:config (you might have to create some of these ent­ries by Right Click –> New– > Inter­ger or String

    network.dns.disableIPv6: set “false”
    “content.notify.backoffcount”: set “5“; (Five)
    “plugin.expose_full_path”: set “true”.
    “ui.submenuDelay”: set “0; (zero)

    Reduce RAM usage to 10MB when Fire­fox is mini­mi­zed:

    This little hack will drop Firefox’s RAM usage down to 10 Mb when minimized:

    1. Open Fire­fox and go to the Add­ress Bar. Type in about:config and then press Enter.
    2. Right Click in the page and select New -> Boo­lean.
    3. In the box that pops up enter “config.trim_on_minimize”. Press Enter.
    4. Now select True and then press Enter.
    5. Restart Firefox.

    That’s all! After my trying, I think it rea­lly faster a little bit than before. Great!

    The ori­gi­nal link is: http://www.dagorret.net/2009/03/25/a-handful-of-firefox-tweaks-that-will-double-your-browser-speed/

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