Useful Tweaks & Ways To Speed Up Firefox

Firefox  is on the way and the beta version has been released for the testing purpose. The new version  of the most popular browser is stunning in looks and performance. Here are some tweaks and ways which can be used to Speed Up Firefox

#1) Performance tweaks for firefox  to increase the browsing speed

Type “about:config” (without quotes) in the address bar and proceed by pressing the I’ll be careful, I promise button. Now in the filter field type in the following values one by one and set its value accordingly. For eg, type network.http.pipelining, you will see the corresponding value appearing below, double clicking it will set the value to true or false and if its some thing which has a value to be set, a popup window appears where you could enter the value for the field.

network.http.pipelining => true
network.http.proxy.pipelining => true
network.http.pipelining.maxrequests => 12
content.notify.backoffcount => 5
plugin.expose_full_path => true
ui.submenuDelay => 0
network.dns.disableIPv6 => true
javascript.options.jit.chrome => true
javascript.options.jit.content => true

If any of the above value doesn’t appear, then follow the steps below.
For a setting with true or false value. For eg, if you don’t see the value being displayed below while typing content.notify.backoffcount on the filter field just right click on an empty space and select Boolean from New. Type content.notify.ontimer in the box and set its value to true.

The same is applicable if you are setting a integer value, except that you need to select Integer from the right click menu.

#2) Speeding Up Firefox  by cleaning up the SQL Data base

Firefox uses a my sql database where various values and entries are being stored during its usage. With time this get accumulated like unwanted registry entries left behind after an uninstallation in windows. So its necessary to clean the firefox  database once in a while.

• For this, Press Ctrl + Shift + J in your firefox browser. You would see the error console window being displayed.
• Click inside the code field and paste the following code and press on Evaluate.
  Components.classes["@mozilla.org/browser/nav-history-service;1"].getService(Components.interfaces.nsPIPlacesDatabase).DBConnection.executeSimpleSQL(“VACUUM”);
  
• Firefox will now freeze for some time and will be back to normal.

#3) Addons to browse faster on Firefox

Adblock Plus extension will block the advertisements you see on various websites and there by making things easier to read and enhancing your browser experience.

Install from the Firefox add-ons page