Mozilla Firefox has really come a long way to be the one of the most popular web-browser; now we have its latest version 4 for even better experience. Though it has very sharp and well optimize rendering engine but even there are tips which we can implement to enhance our surfing experience as well as stable system performance. For ex. having a lot of tabs, Firefox’s RAM memory usage can climb dramatically. It’s a trade-off. What you get out of it is faster performance as you navigate the web or optimizing the cache data.
Though the secrets we have revealed in one of the earlier post but in this post we will get to the most specific changes we should do in about:config section.
Tip 1: Step to enhance the Firefox Load Page Speed
(Normally the browser will make one request to a web page at a time. When you enable pipeliningit will make several at once, which really speeds up page loading.)
Set “network.http.pipelining” to “true”
Set “network.http.proxy.pipelining” to “true”
Set “network.http.pipelining.maxrequests” to some number like 10.
Optionally (for even faster web browsing) here are some more options for your about:config (you might have to create some of these entries by Right Click –> New– > Interger or String
“content.notify.backoffcount”: set “5“; (Five)
“plugin.expose_full_path”: set “true”.
“ui.submenuDelay”: set “0; (zero)
Tip 2: Reduce the amount of RAM; Reducing the Firefox cache memory
1. Type “about:config” (no quotes) in the address bar in the browser.
2. Find “browser.sessionhistory.max_total_viewer”
3. Set it’s value to “0“;(Zero)
Tip 3: Reduce RAM usage to 10mb when Firefox is minimized:
2. Right Click in the page and select New -> Boolean.
3. In the box that pops up enter “config.trim_on_minimize”. Press Enter.
4. Now select True and then press Enter.
5. Restart Firefox.
The above are the most talked Firefox Tweaks that are most responsible to surfing speed and performance.
