Firefox is a well known open source browser and is widely used around the world for it being secure, stable and fast.
With this tutorial you will be able to explore the hidden speed of Firefox which will boost the speed of Firefox and make your Firefox much more faster
Download the latest version of Firefox from here. Now install the Firefox.
To speed up Firefox follow these steps. 01. Type about:config in the address bar and then press Enter. And you will see a confirmation message like this: Now click I’ll be careful, I promise! 02. You will see a label there Filter, just next to it type network.http.pipelining. Now be sure the value field is set true, if not double-click to set true. 03. Go back to the Filter search bar and type network.http.pipelining.maxrequests Double-click this option and set its value to 8. 04. In the Filter search bar and type network.http.proxy.pipelining Once opened double-click on it and set it to true. 05. Type network.dns.disableIPv6 in the filter search bar and set this option to true by double clicking on it. 06. CONTENT INTERRUPT PARSING A. Enter content.interrupt.parsing in the New boolean value pop-up window and click OK. B. When prompted to choose the value for the new boolean, select true and click OK. 07. Rather than wait until a page has completely downloaded to display it to the user, Mozilla applications will regularly render what has been received to that point. This option controls the maximum amount of time the application will be unresponsive while rendering pages. Right-click (Apple users ctrl+click) anywhere in the about:config window, select New and then Integer from the pop-up menu. A. Enter content.max.tokenizing.time in the New integer value pop-up window and click OK. B. You will be prompted to enter a value. Enter 2250000 and click OK. 08. CONTENT NOTIFY INTERVAL A. Type content.notify.interval in the New integer value pop-up window and click OK. B. You will be prompted to enter a value. Enter 750000 and click OK. 09. CONTENT NOTIFY ONTIMER A. This option sets if to reflow pages at an interval any higher than that specified by content.notify.interval. Right-click (Apple users ctrl+click) anywhere in the about:config window and select New and then Boolean from the pop-up menu. B. Type content.notify.ontimer in the New boolean value pop-up window and click OK. C. You will be prompted to choose the value for the new boolean. Select true and click OK. 10. Notify Backoffcount A. Enter content.notify.backoffcount in the New integer value pop-up window and click OK. B. You will be prompted to enter a value. Enter 5 and click OK. 11. CONTENT SWITCH THRESHOLD The low frequency interrupt mode interrupts the parser less frequently to allow for quicker page load. The application enters high frequency interrupt mode when you move the mouse or type on the keyboard and switch back to low frequency mode when you had no activity for a certain amount of time. This preference controls that amount of time. Right-click (Apple users ctrl+click) anywhere in the about:config window and select New and then Integer from the pop-up menu. A. Enter content.switch.threshold in the New integer value pop-up window and click OK. B. You will be prompted to enter a value. Enter 750000 and click OK. 12. NGLAYOUT INITIALPAINT DELAY A. Enter nglayout.initialpaint.delay in the New integer value pop-up window and click OK. B. You will be prompted to enter a value. Enter 0 and click OK. That’s it! Now restart Firefox and your browsing as well as downloading speed will be much more faster. Good luck.
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Info: HTTP is the application-layer protocol that most web pages are transferred with. In HTTP 1.1, multiple requests can be sent before any responses are received. This is known as pipelining. Pipelining reduces page loading times, but not all servers support it!
Info: In IPv6-capable DNS servers, an IPv4 address may be returned when an IPv6 address is requested. It is possible for Mozilla to recover from this misinformation, but a significant delay is introduced.
This preference controls if the application will interrupt parsing a page to respond to UI events. It does not exist by default.
Right-click (Apple users ctrl+click) anywhere in the about:config window, select New and then Boolean from the pop-up menu. Then:
This option sets the minimum amount of time to wait between reflows. Right-click (Apple users ctrl+click) anywhere in the about:config window, select New and then Integer from the pop-up menu.
This option controls the maximum number of times the content will do timer-based reflows. After this number has been reached, the page will only reflow once it is finished downloading. Right-click (Apple users ctrl+click) anywhere in the about:config window and select New and then Integer from the pop-up menu.
You can interact with a loading page when content.interrupt.parsing is set to true. When a page is loading, the application has two modes: a high frequency interrupt mode and a low frequency interrupt mode. The first one interrupts the parser more frequently to allow for greater UI responsiveness during page load.
Mozilla applications render web pages incrementally, they display what??™s been received of a page before the entire page has been downloaded. Since the start of a web page normally doesn’t have much useful information to display, Mozilla applications will wait a short interval before first rendering a page. This preference controls that interval. Right-click (Apple users ctrl+click) anywhere in the about:config window and select New and then Integer from the pop-up menu.
73 Responses to 12 Tricks To Increase Your Firefox Speed By A Noticeable Amount
thegreatforum January 19, 2009
I didn’t really notice much of a difference
Hooman January 20, 2009
Wow!
this is perfect.
my browsing speed is up to 70 percent faster now.
thanks a lot for your great guide.
Bariski January 21, 2009
@thegreatforum:
try running a test before applying these tweaks from speedtest.com and then after applying these tweaks run the test again and feel the difference.
@Hooman:
Its my pleasure friend that it helped you :)
Anonymous January 27, 2009
Tried this and saw worse speeds after doing the “upgrade”… tried 2 separate locations in my speed test.
before, first location was 1527kb/s down and 1289 kb/s up
before, second location was 1489 kb/s down and 1257 kb/s up
After making all the changes you recommend above I actually slowed down…?
after, first location was 1471 kb/s and 1272 kb/s up
after, second location was 1468 kb/s down and 1255 kb/s up
So my question is, where is the 30-70% increase? Also, I now have to waste time reseting to the default settings… thanks for nothing.
Bariski January 27, 2009
Buddy m not so very sure why has this happened to you. Coz this method has certainly proved its worth for me and others [who have given me feedback :|]
Sorry if this doesn’t helped you.
Anonymous January 27, 2009
Thanks it has increased my speed a bit only. But thanks really :D
amit shetty February 3, 2009
Thanks dude….u r doing a good job..
Bariski February 3, 2009
Thanks for the appreciation :)
phaoloo March 4, 2009
Trying this, awesome! :-o
Bariski March 4, 2009
My pleasure :)
Spin Doctor March 4, 2009
thanks this worked pretty well for me, much faster now.
Bariski March 4, 2009
Its my pleasure friend :)
Gabor March 4, 2009
Thanks. Worked but not as well as I thought ;)
Here are the results:
Before – 7970 kb/s (download), 658 kb/s (upload), 25 ms (ping)
After – 8012 kb/s (download), 661 kb/s (upload), 28 ms (ping)
Anonymous March 4, 2009
No Thanks =))
Bariski March 4, 2009
@Gabor it works best for dial up users and slow connection users. Anyway thanks for your reply :)
@Anonymous :P lol :))
Anonymous March 4, 2009
Why set nglayout.initialpaint.delay to 0? Shouldn’t it be positive to delay the painting?
Bariski March 4, 2009
Well buddy, setting it to 0 makes actually it forces Firefox to begin rendering immediately, and it causes almost all pages to show up faster. ;)
Firefox defaults to 250 milliseconds, or 0.25 of a second. :)
Hope this helps :)
Anonymous March 4, 2009
Nice…
Anonymous March 4, 2009
I see. Thanks a lot.
Bariski March 4, 2009
You are welcome buddy :)
Anonymous March 4, 2009
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Anonymous March 4, 2009
Guys, it won’t help your upload/download speeds almost at all. What it does help, however, is improve the responsiveness of the browser, and overall browsing performance.
Bariski March 4, 2009
Yea and I have mentioned it nowhere in the tutorial :|
Anonymous March 5, 2009
Thanks for this trick! It is really faster. I enjoy it much ^^
Anonymous March 7, 2009
My browser is mutch more faster now. I can`t see whot is in the firefox window ;-0.Crap
Bariski March 7, 2009
Did you followed the steps right? :)
Also I told in the very beginning that, before trying this hack, backup your Firefox profile :|
Anonymous March 8, 2009
It’s seems that some people don’t understand the difference between speed of the Internet and the Internet Browser.
So first of all, you can’t get faster Internet that you’ve got from Internet provider just by adjusting some settings in your browser.
So after these adjustments you will not download files 10 or 30x faster, but the browser will need to download less data needed for showing the web content (less data, same Internet speed = faster web browsing)
Bariski March 8, 2009
Dude so can you please clear my doubt? :|
Tell me where have I stated this that this will increase your internet speed? :|
Waiting for your reply!
Anonymous March 14, 2009
It works:
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Bariski March 14, 2009
I am glad this worked like a charm for you :)
Anonymous March 15, 2009
thanks a lot bro…this has increased my speed a lot :)
Solozzo March 15, 2009
Well done mate, thank you. :)
Bariski March 16, 2009
You are welcome buddies :)
Anonymous March 22, 2009
Thanks for the tweaks, mate! I notice the difference. It’s improved greatly as I checked on speedtest.net!
Anonymous March 25, 2009
its works for me great ( for my polish edition of FF )
thanks mate! piece of great job!!
jeromine March 27, 2009
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victord66 April 5, 2009
Thanks, seems to render much faster after these tweaks.
Anonymous April 23, 2009
thanks, it works a bit faster now
Anonymous April 24, 2009
10x a lot
Angie's Recipes April 24, 2009
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Bariski April 24, 2009
Thanks for you replies friends :)
@Angie’s Don’t use full stop in the end use only this:
network.http.pipeliningHope this helps :)
Shannon April 25, 2009
Holly! It has significat change on mine. Thanks a lot!
awesome April 29, 2009
Well, this is awesome!!! my firefox got fasterrrrrrrr!!!! thankssssssssssssss!!!! woohooo!!
Anonymous May 2, 2009
download and upload speed is the same, but firefox’s loading speed has definitely gone up
thanks alot!
Anonymous May 4, 2009
read this for the truth about getting speedups via about:config settings. Trust me, it’s not a case of “it worked for me, it should work for you”
Anonymous May 7, 2009
Prety Good
Joe May 11, 2009
Just step 1 alone increased my downloading speed almost exactly 100%, thanks! :)
Anonymous May 19, 2009
It’s seems that some people don’t understand the difference between speed of the Internet and the InSo first of all, you can’t get faster Internet that you’ve got from Internet provider just by adjusting some settings in your browser.
So after these adjustments you will not download files 10 or 30x faster, but the browser will need to download less data needed for showing the web content (less data, same Internet speed = faster web browsing)
It Buzz May 27, 2009
Its really an awesome post to increase the speed of firefox thanks a lot buddy.
Anonymous May 27, 2009
thanks
Anonymous June 4, 2009
hi, thanks for this , great job. Good luck for your genius :) My browser is now very speed up!!!
shivam June 7, 2009
u r great.i've become ur big fan.
shivam June 7, 2009
m ur big fan
Wine Tours Italy June 9, 2009
Thanks for the tweaks! This made a real difference.
Bariski June 14, 2009
@Shannon, awesome, 3 x Anonymous, Joe, It Buzz, shivam, and Wine Tours Italy I'm really glad that this helped you :)
Saungweb June 23, 2009
Thanks for the excellent tips. Very useful for a newbie like me
Anonymous June 24, 2009
Its worked great for me,but I cant access some websites e.g: bbc news.I get a connection interrupted error.
Jane July 14, 2009
The tweak reduces FF memory usage to 10Mb when minimized. It resumes full usage (about 80Mb for me) when maximized. This is useful when you're running memory intensive programs but still want FF open for downloads or whathaveyou.
Free Ferrari Wallpapers July 17, 2009
Nice tricks, thanks for this post. Firefox forever :)
Sayful October 7, 2011
Thanks buddy…Seems pretty fast then before.
Ahsan Ahmad October 11, 2011
GREAT ! ! ! Its faster than Chrome now..
Don Blanco October 16, 2011
Good job, pal. It is unfortunate that some people cannot read and comprehend your instructions before whining in here, however….LOL.
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Prabhu November 16, 2011
Great Tricks!!!!!!!!!!!!!
See its really fast .
thanks for sharing all this tricks
Good job Boss !!!!!!!!
Tungas November 17, 2011
it slow down me … ..
i’m using software to increase my internet speed …
before doing this : 4534:download speed , 4763:upload speed
after doing this : 174 :download speed , 4562:upload speed
i noticed if u already increase internet speed using software,hack or whatever … u download speed will become normal . ..
thanks k for detailed description … i like tutorial like this because with pic n detailed description .. it make noob like me easy to understand ..hehe ..thanks …
bhargav November 26, 2011
thanks!
works great!
Eduardo December 2, 2011
Nice,men. Cool tweaks.Faster than before. More power.
iqbal December 29, 2011
Yes..It really works..nice work
Rafi January 6, 2012
Thanks a lot…..:-))
Fahim January 12, 2012
Is this 100% safe..can you ensure
rockman January 16, 2012
it increase loading a page for a page with many graphic anyway thaks alot!!
subham January 26, 2012
thanks sir…..
can you please tell me how i avoid login in wi fi network in the mozila fire fox….
Delish February 8, 2012
hiii, this trick is 100% working, now my firfox is faster than before.thanks for ur trick,is there any trick for google chrome and internet explorer8 ?? im useing dial up…
Ritesh February 8, 2012
hey, this really worked for me bro. Thanks a lot….. :)