Originally posted on June 18, 2007 @ 12:37 am
Firefox is most bloggers loved browser, but can be improved and made faster easily. With only one tweak you can make the page rendering almost as fast as in Opera or Safari.
Type in the address bar about:config.
Type pipelining in the filter bar.
Double-click on network.http.pipelining to set its value to TRUE.
Double-click on network.http.pipelining.maxrequests and change its value to 12 or more if you have broadband.
Play a little with the setting to find a configuration which is best for your connection.
Firefox is most hated for its memory usage. After having browsed some hours, Firefox will easily have taken 250MB or more of memory and slow down your PC. This is because FF has never been programmed to overwrite the memory it doesn’t use anymore and give free to other programs. Sometimes even closing Firefox won’t speed up your PC anymore. But the leakage can be prevented.
To do so, open a new tab and type about:config in your address bar again.
This time we want to limit the size of the memory cache.
Therefore we need to create a new preference, named browser.cache.memory.capacity.
Right click on any free area in the preferences window and choose New —> String.
Type now the name browser.cache.memory.capacity and in the next window set the value to 20000.
This will limit the size of the cache in the RAM to 20000KB and should prevent the annoying memory leak.
Restart your browser now.