May 7, 2011admin

Enhance browsing speed and System Performance optimizing Mozilla Firefox

Mozilla Firefox has really come a long way to be the one of the most popular web-browser; now we have its latest version 4 for even better experience. Though it has very sharp and well optimize rendering engine but even there are tips which we can implement to enhance our surfing experience as well as stable system performance. For ex. having a lot of tabs, Firefox’s RAM memory usage can climb dramatically. It’s a trade-off. What you get out of it is faster performance as you navigate the web or optimizing the cache data.

Though the secrets we have revealed in one of the earlier post but in this post we will get to the most specific changes we should do in about:config section.

Tip 1: Step to enhance the Firefox Load Page Speed

1. Type “about:config” into the address bar and hit Enter.
(Normally the browser will make one request to a web page at a time. When you enable pipeliningit will make several at once, which really speeds up page loading.)
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)

Tip 2: Reduce the amount of RAM; Reducing the Firefox cache memory

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

Tip 3: 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.

The above are the most talked Firefox Tweaks that are most responsible to surfing speed and performance.

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