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After you get past the beginner stage with Firefox, try this "power-user" trick to make it download pages faster by allowing multiple connections so it can download more than one file at a time. It's only useful for broadband users, so if you're still on dial-up you can just skip this one for now.

Here's something for broadband people that will really speed Firefox up:

1.Type "about:config" into the address bar and hit return. Scroll down and look for the following entries:

network.http.pipelining
network.http.proxy.pipelining
network.http.pipelining.maxrequests

Normally the browser will make one request to a web page at a time. When you enable pipelining it 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 30. This means it will make 30 requests at once.

3. Lastly right-**** anywhere 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.

If you're using a broadband connection you'll load pages MUCH faster now

well yea, i have heard about it before
but didn't remembered how to do it
well yes it kinda make the browsing faster :P
thnx

i have seen this guide couple of times already. i don't know wheather it helps boosting Firefox or not because this trick is only supported on DSL not on other type pf Internet ( as i listed form other people ).

I will try this i am using mozilla firefox 2.0 and i m really recommend it to everyone ! thanks for sharing

Sounds LiKe a good Idea *thumbs up*

Thanks, and i use a lot of plugins to make my FF better

I'll try it soon.

I heard about that, on the Mozilla Firefox homepage, but thanks.

I'll try it soon.

i see about a 20-25% faster upload rate in web pages, Nice going.