Barry sent on a clever little hack earlier that speeds up your Firefox browsing experience quite nicely (especially if you have a decent broadband connection!).

Here’s the details:

  • Type “about:config” into the address bar and hit return. Scroll down and look for the following entries:

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

  • Normally the browser will make one request to a web page at a time. When you enable pipelining it will make several at once, which really speeds up page loading.

  • Alter the entries as follows:

    Set “network.http.pipelining” to “true”

    Set “network.http.proxy.pipelining” to “true”

    Set “network.http.pipelining.maxrequests” to some number like 30.

  • This means it will make 30 requests at once.

  • Lastly right-click anywhere 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.