How to Make Firefox Load Pages Faster

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Firefox is cool, and it can be tweaked to load broadband pages extra fast. Here's how.

Steps

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, and 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" by double-clicking it.
Set "network.http.proxy.pipelining" to "true" by double-clicking it.
Set "network.http.pipelining.maxrequests" to 8 by double-clicking it. This means it will make 8 requests at once. There is no point setting it higher then 8 as it is capped at 8 max. [The default value for this setting is 4]
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 receives.
If you're using a broadband connection you'll load pages MUCH faster now!

Alternately, you could install Fasterfox, an extension which does some of this automatically, and makes tuning easier.
For more information on Firefox Tuning see the Firefox Tuning sticky thread at the independent MozillaZine forums.
Also the MozillaZine Knowledge Base on Network entries in about:config and what they do.
You can also run Firefox in your RAM (no reading from the HD means faster Firefox) by following this article.
If you have problems like slow down, pages not loading or images loading weird, just undo the tweaks in about:config
You can also do this in the Internet explorer browser, In opera an alternative is: go to opera:config and go to performance. Then change the max number of connections to 32

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