Broad Band Users: Supercharge Your Firefox!

Thanks to my PC go-to-guy, Shawn, here is his tip on how to supercharge your Firefox for faster loading the web pages while surfing:

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
network.http.pipelining.maxrequests
network.http.max-connections
network.http.max-connections-per-server
network.http.max-persistent-connections-per-server

Alter the entries as follows:

Set network.http.pipelining to "true" (default=false)

Set network.http.proxy.pipelining to "true" (default=false)

Set network.http.max-connections to 32 (default=24)

Set network.http.max-connections-per-server to 8 (default=8)

Set network.http.max-persistent-connections-per-server to 8 (default=8)

Set network.http.pipelining.maxrequests to some number like 30. This means it will make 30 requests at once. (default=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 recieves.

Restart your browser and enjoy.

One more thing: Foxfire 1.0.2, and Thunderbird 1.0.2 are now available.