Make Firefox Blazingly Fast

[X'an Shin]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1299854/posts

For the Firefox users. I tried this, and it speeded it up a TON. Unfortunately the last instruction about nglayout didn't work for me, but the other two improvements (easy and painless to do) increased my speed by a crapton.

Even slow sites load faster now.

Edited to say that the tweak (pinging sites 30 times instead of 4 per second) is actually causing a few errors on this site. Hmmmn.

[E-bo Obi]

I noticed I couldn't send PM's today to people so either they yanked my privledges or there is actually something wrong. But I did just setup my new computer and am trying to work out some bugs.

[Jabe Adaks]

Its not the tweaks - our web host is having problems with their outbound mail server. When you post a message the email notifier on this forum email notifies people that they have new replies. However it can't complete that function and therefore you see errors on the forum. It shouldn't last long.

Jabe

[E-bo Obi]

Wow. I do notice a speed difference.

[Skarr]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1299854/posts

For the Firefox users. I tried this, and it speeded it up a TON. Unfortunately the last instruction about nglayout didn't work for me, but the other two improvements (easy and painless to do) increased my speed by a crapton.

Even slow sites load faster now.

Edited to say that the tweak (pinging sites 30 times instead of 4 per second) is actually causing a few errors on this site. Hmmmn.

try this for the nglayout thing, reset the other itemsback to false, back out, then go back in and do the nglayout thing first...first you name it, then you put "0" in the box, then reset the others back to true again



and yes it sure has speeded things up! good find by the xan man!

[Skarr]

ooooh here's another tweak I found, and it makes it even faster...seriously I can tell on my machine anyway

find the string
browser.turbo.enabled
double click and change the value to true


i got it from this thread, which also explains what you are changing

http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/asa/archives/007164.html