Make Firefox FASTER! (tip)

Here's a very useful and noticeable soft mod for firefox. It's simple and straightforward, anyone can make this work.

Published by CPU Magazine all credit to CPU Magazine.

Speed up browsing. This next set of modifications exemplifies what’s
possible with Firefox, but it can be controversial. You can set Firefox
to use multiple connections to a Web server to retrieve multiple files
instead of just one. Some consider this approach as inconsiderate to
Webmasters, because their servers must spend more effort serving you a
page than someone else. That said, this can boost performance
considerably and illustrates how to modify technical settings in
Firefox.

First, open Firefox and type about:config in the Address Bar and press
ENTER, which displays the equivalent of Firefox’s Registry. Next, type
HTTP into the Filter field, which displays only those entries that have
“http” within them. Then, do the following:

1. Change network.http.pipelining to true by double-clicking it;

2. Change network.http.pipelining.maxrequests to 8 by double-clicking it and entering 8 in the pop-up window;

3. Change network.http.max-persistant-connections-per-server to 8;

4. Change network.http.max-connections to 48;

5. Change network.http.proxy.pipelining to true;

6. Change network.http.max-persistant-connections-per-proxy to 8; and

7. Right-click anywhere in this screen, and choose New Integer from the
pop-up menu. Enter the Preference Name as nglayout.initialpaint.delay,
and its Value as 0.

Restart Firefox to enable the changes.

-N. Polyz.