James Oliver’s PC Guide & Tips

The following will be helpful to broadband users:

Step 1. Type “about:config” into the address bar and hit return.

Scroll down and look for the following entries (it’s in alphabetical order):

• network.http.pipelining
• network.http.proxy.pipelining
• network.http.pipelining.maxrequests

Step 2. Alter the entries as follows:

• Set “network.http.pipelining” to “true” (by dbl-clicking)
• Set “network.http.proxy.pipelining” to “true” (by dbl-clicking)
• Set “network.http.pipelining.maxrequests” to some number like 30. (This enables it to make 30 requests at once.)

Step 3. Lastly right-click anywhere in the whitespace 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.)

By default, FireFox will make one request to a web page at a time. When you enable pipelining, it will make several requests at once giving it a major performance boost.

You should see a MUCH faster response from FireFox now!

For more visual help, see the video tutorial in the members area of PCSetupGuide.com