These items don’t appear in my about:config

network.http.pipelining.firstrequest
nglayout.initialpaint.delay
content.notify.interval
content.switch.threshold
content.interrupt.parsing

Do I just add them ?

content.switch.threshold is an integer. How do you set it to True?

I had really slow firefox last few weeks… this speeded it up! Thanks for this

This is really amazing, Thanks for the helpful post. At first when i was searching for it on firefox add-ons area i was disappointed about how to find something which can make my firefox faster, but now i’m happy – Thanks once again for the great help.

-Muneeb

i think he got these tweaks from http://www.helpero.com. under “how to” tab page 17.if its not in page 17, then try the other pages.you’ll find more firefox tweaks there, just like this one.^^

Thanks.. It doesn’t make it blindingly fast, but I do notice a difference. one question though, Is it normal for firefox’s cpu to be at 100 when loading pages?

how do you “create a new boolean value”?

These instructions are not very descriptive. Maybe you should try to explain it a bit more.

apologies had to correct my own spelling in the last message it should read ‘want to avoid uninstalling and REINSTALLING’ and ‘as i have so much SAVED in my bookmarks’!!
I was in a bit of a panic and rush to get some assistance!!
M

Make sure you follow these commands and it will work fine.
Also make sure that your registry cleaner doesn’t delete the new keys other wise it will go back to normal.

NOTE: These tweaks are for BROADBAND connections ONLY!

Yes, Firefox is already pretty damn fast but did you know that you can tweak it and improve the speed even more?

That’s the beauty of this program being open source.
Here’s what you do:
In the URL bar, type “about:config” and press enter. This will bring up the configuration “menu” where you can change the parameters of Firefox.

Note that these are what I’ve found to REALLY speed up my Firefox significantly – and these settings seem to be common among everybody else as well. But these settings are optimized for broadband connections – I mean with as much concurrent requests we’re going to open up with pipelining – You’d better have a big connection!

Double Click on the following settings and put in the numbers below – for the true / false booleans – they’ll change when you double click.

Code:
browser.tabs.showSingleWindowModePrefs – true
network.http.max-connections – 48
network.http.max-connections-per-server – 16
network.http.max-persistent-connections-per-proxy – 8
network.http.max-persistent-connections-per-server – 4
network.http.pipelining – true
network.http.pipelining.maxrequests – 100
network.http.proxy.pipelining – true
network.http.request.timeout – 300

One more thing… Right-click somewhere on that screen and add a 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 receives. Since you’re broadband – it shouldn’t have to wait.

Now you should notice you’re loading pages MUCH faster now!

Useless…I don’t see any diffrence – reverted back to default. I guess it’s better to invest in faster connection LOL

Thanks for this. I noticed the difference right away.

for people who say they can’t find things READ FOR ONCE you just bloody add them -.-

To reset your firefox
———————

1.Close all Firefox windows and tabs.

2.Open ‘Run’ from ‘Start Menu’

3.Type the following ‘firefox -profilemanager’ and hit ‘Enter’

4.Then a menu will be opened. Select “Create a new profile” will ultimately reset all your setting in Firefox.
( To undo this, Restart from 1 to 3 and select the default profile)

its working thanks for your idea thank u very much

this is fab…
it worked perfect…

Thanks