improve the speed & load time of firefox

These are tricks that will improve the speed & load time of firefox. And you will be able to surf faster..especially in dialup connections

Type about:config in the address bar, Then look for the following
entries, and make the corresponding changes.

1.network.http.max-connections = 64
2.network.http.max-connections-per-server =32
3.network.http.max-persistent-connections-per-proxy =16
4.network.http.max-persistent-connections-per-server = 10
5.network.http.pipelining = true
6.network.http.pipelining.maxrequests = 200
7.network.http.proxy.pipelining = true
8.network.http.proxy.version = 1.0
9.network.http.request.max-start-delay = 0



Lastly right-click 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 recieves...

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You might have noticed that Firefox performs poorly when you surf for a long time or open lots of tabs at once. Many wrongly believe that this is due to some memory leak caused by extensions (even, I used to believe this).This is actually caused because Firefox stores 50 most recently visited websites in a memory session inorder to speed up the pageload of the previously visited site.Average web surfer tend to visit only 3 – 5 websites out of the previously visited websites, so you can reduce the resource hog by changing the memory threshold to 6 (or anything below 50).

This can be done by typing "about:config" in your Firefox address bar and search for

browser.sessionhistory.max_entries

Right click on that entry and choose modify. Now set the value for 5 (or anything lower than 50).

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Reduce RAM usage when Firefox is minimized

This setting will move Firefox to your hard drive when you minimize it, taking up much less memory. And there is no noticeable difference in speed when you restore Firefox, so it’s definitely worth a go.

Again, go to about:config, right-click anywhere and select New > Boolean. Name it

config.trim_on_minimize and set it to TRUE.

You have to restart Firefox for these settings to take effect.
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* try ths at ur risk


Limit RAM usage

If Firefox takes up too much memory on your computer, you can limit the amount of RAM it is allowed to us.
Again, go to about:config, filter

browser.cache and select

browser.cache.disk.capacity...... It’s set to 50000,

but you can lower it, depending on how much memory you have. Try 15000 if you have between 512MB and 1GB ram.