here's a tweak to make fire fox go faster by using about:config
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"Speeding up Firefox!
For those using firefox there is a way to speed it up....and here's how:
1. Open a firefox web browser
2. Type: "about:config" in the address bar, without the parentheses
3. Scroll down and find: network.http.pipeling
4. Double click on it to make it a "True" statement
5. Find network.http.pipelining.maxrequests
6. Double click on it and change the value you "30"
7. Find network.http.proxy.pipelining
8. Change it to a "True" statement
9. Right click anywhere within that browser
10. Select New
11. Select Integer
12. Type in: nglayout.initialpaint.delay as the new statement
13. Select the integer value as "0"
What this does is instead of sending 1 request to a website, it now sends 30...and then the nglayout integer means that instead of waiting for every single bit of information that the site is sending you, it biggiety bams it to you...
It should noticeably speed up your firefox, i noticed a significant speed up on both my laptop and my desktop!"
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my value for network.http.pipelining.maxrequests is 100, i was told that some sites may not let you access them because you are making too many connections, if this is the case try dropping the value of network.http.pipelining.maxrequests to 20 or so