Hacking Mozilla Firefox 1 - going faster

This is the first part in an ongoing series about Mozilla's Firefox web browser. For those of you not using it, you should be, it's faster, more customizable, and has much stronger security (this website goes into detail about why you should switch). Today we're going to be focusing on a way to make Firefox faster: pipelining. Pipelining allows Firefox to execute multiple instructions at once, dramatically decreasing web page load time, especially on broadband connections. Here's how:

1. Open Firefox. In the address bar, type about:config and hit enter.
2. In the filter bar type in pipelining. You should have three preferences appear.
3. Right click network.http.pipelining and toggle it to true.
4. Right click network.http.pipelining.maxrequests and set it to a high number, like 30 (anything much higher than 30 will have no effect).
5. Toggle network.http.proxy.pipelining and set it to true.
6. Finally, right click anywhere in the white area, and make a new integer prefrence. Name it nglayout.initialpaint.delay and set it to 0. This will eliminate delay time before the page is shown on the screen.

Now you should be browsing much faster.

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