How to Speed Up Firefox (2 Easy Ways)

This is how you can speed up your Firefox experience by decreasing the load time of just about all web pages.

Instructions

Difficulty: Moderately Easy

Things You’ll Need:

• Computer
• Firefox
• Fingers

1. WAY # 1:
   Disable all banners and adds or just the ones you do not want to see by using Adblock Plus (know.https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1865), a simple, easy to use Firefox add-on. When you install this add-on, after you restart Firefox as it’s instructions will tell you, you will be prompted with a selection of lists, subscribe to the one you feel fits you best (I use the US one). After this is installed, most of the banners will automatically be stopped from loading, and the rest you can stop from loading by right clicking on the banner, then clicking AddBlock Image. Because there are fewer images to load on the page, the page will obviously load faster, usually its a very substantial change. This application does not cost money, just to let you guys know.
2. WAY # 2:
   Type in the following url: about:config It will look like this when you see the page.
3. You will want to scroll down to where it says “network.http.pipelining” “network.http.pipelining.maxrequests” and 2 below that one at “network.http.proxy.pipelining”.
4. The 1st one, by default, will read false. You want to change that to true. You do this by simply clicking on the line, the false will turn to a bolded True.
5. The 2nd one, by default, will read 4. Click on this bar. An input box will open up. Enter 150 (150 pipes instead of the default of 4 going to a page at once).
6. Lastly, the 3rd one will read false also. Click on it so that it reads True. A picture of what it should look like is below.

Tips & Warnings

• For a better, more in depth explanation, go to my blog at cmorin.wordpress.com
• If you mess something up, don't worry. There is a column named STATUS, if you mess up the changes, you can just double click on it again and have the STATUS change back to DEFAULT.