Speed Up Firefox And Set Your Hair On Fire
Speed Up Firefox? Out of the box, Firefox is a FAR superior browser as compared to MS Internet Explorer in regards to its flexibility and reliability. I have taken the opportunity to compile a list of tweaks anyone can use to speed up Firefox and maximize its performance. Unlike Internet Explorer, YOU WILL NOT BE MAKING CHANGES TO THE SYSTEM REGISTERY
Using these tweaks to speed up Firefox, it is likely you will gain performance improvements of several seconds when loading pages. If you don't already have Firefox, you may download it here:
Performance Settings Used To Speed Up Firefox
To implement the following tweaks, type "about:config", without the "", in the Firefox Address bar. This will open the Firefox configuration file. Good news is that the changes do not have to be permanent. Changes made to about:config are stored in a file that is not present by default; user.js in the Mozilla profile folder. To go back to the bone stock configuration, simply delete this file and it is like the changes never happened.
When making a change to an existing setting, you will be changing an integer value or a bolean(true/false) value. After highlighting setting with your cursor, right-click to enter changes.
You may want to experiment with different values for the settings listed below. The values I have listed are not set in stone. They are the ones I have found work best for my computer. Again, if there is a problem, you can always delete the user.js file and start over.
A Video Lesson On Using About:Config to Help You Speed Up Firefox
This video is good for those of you who are visual learners and need to see what I am talking about.
Make Firefox much Faster About:Config Tutorial
http://youtube.jimmyr.com/ to request tutorials Make firefox much faster by editing the about:config options. Many options like nglayout, memory.capacity and trim_on_minimize seem to have disappeared in firefox 2.0 =/ at least for me. %%software
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The Most Important Tweaks To Speed Up Firefox
Everyone Who Uses Firefox Should Implement these Tweaks...
Text in quotes is setting. Number or (true/false) is the value for the setting
"network.http.pipelining", true
"network.http.pipelining.firstrequest", true
"network.http.pipelining.maxrequests", 8
"user_pref("nglayout.initialpaint.delay", 0
Pipelining does multiple data requests at once and should speed things up. I believe IE did this before and this was partially attributable to the speed advantage that IE had over older versions of Mozilla/Netscape. Initial Paint Delay actually slows down the rendering of the ENTIRE page but since users tend to start reading before the entire page is rendered, setting this to a low value gives the impression that the page loads faster.
Tweaks Common to all configurations
These are the settings that seem to be common to all configuration files regardless of connection speed or computer speed with a couple of additions - plugin paths can be found with about:plugins and the bookmark menu delay is turned off.
"network.http.pipelining", true
"network.http.proxy.pipelining", true
"network.http.pipelining.maxrequests", 8
"content.notify.backoffcount", 5
"plugin.expose_full_path", true
"ui.submenuDelay", 0
"network.http.pipelining", true
"network.http.proxy.pipelining", true
"network.http.pipelining.maxrequests", 8
"content.notify.backoffcount", 5
"plugin.expose_full_path", true
"ui.submenuDelay", 0
Tweaks For A Fast Computer With A Fast Connection
"content.interrupt.parsing", true
"content.max.tokenizing.time", 2250000
"content.notify.interval", 750000
"content.notify.ontimer", true
"content.switch.threshold", 750000
"nglayout.initialpaint.delay", 0
"network.http.max-connections", 48
"network.http.max-connections-per-server", 16
"network.http.max-persistent-connections-per-proxy", 16
"network.http.max-persistent-connections-per-server", 8
"browser.cache.memory.capacity", 65536
A couple settings of note - Firefox is allocated 4096 KB of memory by default and in this configuration we give it roughly 65MB as denoted by the last line. This can be changed according to what is used.
"content.max.tokenizing.time", 2250000
"content.notify.interval", 750000
"content.notify.ontimer", true
"content.switch.threshold", 750000
"nglayout.initialpaint.delay", 0
"network.http.max-connections", 48
"network.http.max-connections-per-server", 16
"network.http.max-persistent-connections-per-proxy", 16
"network.http.max-persistent-connections-per-server", 8
"browser.cache.memory.capacity", 65536
A couple settings of note - Firefox is allocated 4096 KB of memory by default and in this configuration we give it roughly 65MB as denoted by the last line. This can be changed according to what is used.
Tweaks For Fast Computer With A Slower Connection
This configuration is more suited to people without ultra fast connections. We are not talking about dial up connections but DSL / Cable connections running at slower speeds.
"content.max.tokenizing.time", 2250000
"content.notify.interval", 750000
"content.notify.ontimer", true
"content.switch.threshold", 750000
"network.http.max-connections", 48
"network.http.max-connections-per-server", 16
"network.http.max-persistent-connections-per-proxy", 16
"network.http.max-persistent-connections-per-server", 8
"nglayout.initialpaint.delay", 0
"browser.cache.memory.capacity", 65536
"content.max.tokenizing.time", 2250000
"content.notify.interval", 750000
"content.notify.ontimer", true
"content.switch.threshold", 750000
"network.http.max-connections", 48
"network.http.max-connections-per-server", 16
"network.http.max-persistent-connections-per-proxy", 16
"network.http.max-persistent-connections-per-server", 8
"nglayout.initialpaint.delay", 0
"browser.cache.memory.capacity", 65536
Tweaks For Slow Computer With A Fast Connection
"content.max.tokenizing.time", 3000000
"content.notify.backoffcount", 5
"content.notify.interval", 1000000
"content.notify.ontimer", true
"content.switch.threshold", 1000000
"content.maxtextrun", 4095
"nglayout.initialpaint.delay", 1000
"network.http.max-connections", 48
"network.http.max-connections-per-server", 16)
"network.http.max-persistent-connections-per-proxy", 16
"network.http.max-persistent-connections-per-server", 8
dom.disable_window_status_change", true
"content.notify.backoffcount", 5
"content.notify.interval", 1000000
"content.notify.ontimer", true
"content.switch.threshold", 1000000
"content.maxtextrun", 4095
"nglayout.initialpaint.delay", 1000
"network.http.max-connections", 48
"network.http.max-connections-per-server", 16)
"network.http.max-persistent-connections-per-proxy", 16
"network.http.max-persistent-connections-per-server", 8
dom.disable_window_status_change", true
Tweaks For Slow Computer With A Slow Connection
For People with Dial-Up Connections
"content.max.tokenizing.time", 2250000);
"content.notify.interval", 750000);
"content.notify.ontimer", true);
"content.switch.threshold", 750000
"nglayout.initialpaint.delay", 750
"network.http.max-connections", 32
"network.http.max-connections-per-server", 8
"network.http.max-persistent-connections-per-proxy", 8
"network.http.max-persistent-connections-per-server", 4
"dom.disable_window_status_change", true
Speed Up Firefox With These Keyboard Shortcuts
Power users (lazy people) love keyboard shortcuts and I have a semi-exhaustive list of the common ones here to be used with Firefox. The most important ones (in my opinion) are near the top while the more benign ones are closer to the bottom. If I have missed anything that you think is important be sure
to let me know.
To use the keyboard shortcuts hold down the CTRL key and press one of the following:
T - Opens a new tab and takes the focus to the new tab
O - Open Local File. This is one of the biggest changes from IE where both Ctrl-O and Ctrl-L opened a dialogue box for a URL.
L - Changes focus to the Address bar
Tab Scrolls through the tabs from current window towards the right. Loops back to the first tab when rightmost tab is reached
1..10 The numbers 1 to 10 takes the focus to Tab 1 to 10
N - Opens a new window like IE
B - Open bookmark sidepanel
D - Bookmark current page
H - Brings up the history dialogue box on the right. Useful if you closed a page accidentally and forgot the URL. Or to make sure your kids are not looking at porn
U - Show page source
Y - Open downloads window
K - Focus goes to search bar
Some of the more common shortcuts just for the heck of it:
R - Refresh current page
F - Find in page
G - Find Again
(used in conjunction with Ctrl-F)
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Reader Feedback
Please let me know if any of this information helps Speed Up Firefox, for you. Also, any suggestions for additional tweaks would really be appreciated
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- Smellypunks Smellypunks Aug 12, 2009 @ 6:00 am
- Useful lens thanks for the info.
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- nbkx2yf nbkx2yf Apr 5, 2009 @ 7:21 am
- I have been using Firefox since verion 2.0 and I have never regretted it, it has cool features like addons and Adblocker plus is one of them. I love firefox.
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- Apr 3, 2009 @ 8:04 am
- Awesome tweaks for the best browser on the planet...Go Firefox! I love being able to customize and develop extensions. Check out my Knofollo Extension that allows you to detect "nofollow" links.
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- Anony Anony Apr 1, 2009 @ 10:47 am
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- daubyj daubyj Mar 17, 2009 @ 10:15 am
- Great lens! Gave it 4 stars.
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- PetSnakes PetSnakes Mar 10, 2009 @ 12:26 am
- I just wish everyone would use firefox and then I could stop worrying about making my blogs about keeping snakes as pets and lizards compatible for Internet Explorer.
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- Wysiwigs Wysiwigs Nov 15, 2008 @ 2:46 pm
- Great lens ~ I've just recently swapped over to Firefox and love it :o)
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- Sara Sara Oct 18, 2008 @ 8:52 pm
- I love Firefox and I've been using it for the past 6 years, right after I had to reformat my Hard Drive because of a horrible trojan that I got while using IE.
~ Sara
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- inettopic inettopic Oct 18, 2008 @ 8:19 pm
- Great lens. Been looking for some Firefox tweaks for one of my computers that seems to be slow loading and reacting. Will definitely try what I've read and let you know how it turned out.
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- kezan98 kezan98 Oct 18, 2008 @ 5:31 pm
- This is great, I never new this stuff and I'm a big ban of FireFox. Gave you a 5 :)
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