Faster Web Browsing
Here’s a few simple tweaks that will improve the speed of your browsing experience:
1. Go to http://www.firefox.com
2. Download Firefox 2.0.0.6
3. Install and proceed to open Firefox
4. Type in the address bar > about:config
5. You will notice in the window an additional address bar with the word ‘filter ‘. Then type in the filter bar the word > network
6. Wait for a second or so.
7. Scroll down the list till you get to an entry that reads > network.http.pipelining
8. Highlight this entry and double-click – this should set it to ‘true’
9. Go down one line and find > network.http.pipelining.maxsrequests
10. Double click on network.http.pipelining.maxsrequests which will bring up a pop-up box.
11. Set your maxsrequests to > 8
12. Both entries should now be bold.
13. Go to ‘file ‘ > exit.
14. Restart Firefox and test the speed of your browser startup.