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This tip will show you how to slightly speed up the load times of pages through the Mozilla Firefox web browser, making your surfing sessions more confortable.

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Speed up page load times in Firefox

July 03rd, 2006 - 06:00 pm ET by Mathieu D.

In the default configuration of the Firefox web browser, the pages load quickly, but it is nevertheless possible to speed things up slightly by changing a few options.

The first thing to change is the HTTP pipelining, while the second concerns the management of the number of connections to a remote web server are allowed.

Here is how you can do this:

Start Mozilla Firefox.

In the address bar enter: about:config

Firefox configuration page

With the help of the filters find the network.http.pipelining and network.http.proxy.pipelining entries and change their value TRUE (by double clicking on the line or by right clicking above it and selecting [Inverse]). Next, find the entry network.http.pipelining.maxrequests and give it a value of 30 (by right clicking on the line and selecting [Edit]).

Firefox - network.http.pipelining.maxrequests

Changing the value to 30

Create a new entry called nglayout.initialpaint.delay by right clicking and selecting [New] and [Digital Value], by giving it a value of 0.

Next find the entries:

- network.http.max-connections which you give a value of 40.
- network.http.max-connections-per-server
- network.http.max-persistent-connections-per-proxy
- network.http.max-persistent-connections-per-server

Give these last three entries values of 16

Firefox - network.http.max-connections-per-server

Changing the value to 16

Restart the browser for the changes to take effect.

In the event of a problem you can reset the values to the defaults by right clicking and selecting [Reinitialise].

Note: It is possible to speed up the performances even more by creating a new Boolean value which is to be renamed to browser.turbo.enabled with a value set as TRUE. Cette option est encore expérimentale, il en va donc de vos risques (et peut-être périls...). You should know that this option allows you to reduce the memory use and speed up Firefox’s response time.