How to speed up Firefox 4

More recently, we have considered How To Speed ​​Up Google Chrome browser. Article received some response, so today we continue the theme of optimal browser settings for maximum performance, but in relation to Mozilla Firefox.

Subject acceleration Firefox has a great history and is an inexhaustible subject of experiments for fans of all kinds of tweaks. In this article, I tried to collect only the most trusted recommendations, dividing them into several categories.

optimization interface

Turn on the default theme

Firefox supports two kinds of themes - a full-featured and lightweight shell Personas. Some of them quite spectacular and even contain animations and other beauty, but if you want to speed up the startup time and increase the responsiveness of the browser, then you should go back to the default theme

Turn off animation tabs

The latest version of the browser developers have added opening animation \ closing tabs. Disabling this cute, but not very necessary innovations can slightly increase (or create the illusion of increasing the speed of the browser :). To do this, follow these steps:

1. enter about: config in the address bar and accept the warning.
2. In the Filter box, type browser.tabs.animate.
   
3. Double-clicking on the correct option on false.
4. Restart your browser.

network settings

Increase the number of requests

Used in this version of the HTTP protocol allows the use of a single set of connection requests to the server. By default, Firefox is turned off this feature, although its application is guaranteed to produce an increase in speed. This is done due to the fact that some sites may not adequately respond to such requests, although personally this did not occur to me.

1. enter about: config in the address bar and accept the warning.
2. In the Filter box, type network.http.pipelining. You will see three entries, two of them to be edited.
3. Make a double click on the line network.http.pipelining and change the value to true.
4. Make a double click on the line network.http.pipelining.maxrequests, A window will appear with a field to enter, enter here the number of 8 before 12.
5. Restart your browser.

Accelerate rendering pages

By default, the browser is not immediately begins to display a Web page, and making a slight delay to obtain more data. This pause can be changed or even disable.

1. enter about: config in the address bar and accept the warning.
2. Click anywhere on the right mouse button, select Create an integer.
   
3. enter nglayout.initialpaint.delay and further value 0.
4. Restart your browser.

Supplements

Leave as little as possible additions

Ability to add new features to the browser using a wide variety of add-ons is a key feature of Firefox. However, a large number of installed add-ons significantly slows down the start and operation of the program. It was officially recognized in Mozilla, and the problem is recognized as quite serious. Therefore, only use really you need plug-ins and ruthlessly remove everything installed "just in case".

Block ads, scripts and flash

Notwithstanding the previous paragraph, some supplements can be very useful for increasing the display speed of pages. By means of such extensions as adblock Plus and NoScript you can greatly speed up surfing at the expense of off loading bulky banners, animations and scripts hampering third-party sites.