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Contents 1 A Faster Firefox 1.1 Network Pipelining 1.2 Proxy Pipelining 1.3 Off with IPv6 1.4 Plugin Path 1.5 New Intergers 1.6 Firefox Memory Leak Fix

A Faster Firefox

Im sure you're all the same when it comes to browsing the web. You that page loaded NOW! no waiting round for firefox to catch up with you!

Here are some good tweaks to get your Eeepc browsing the web as fast as possibl:

In your location bar, type about:config

Once it Opens You should see similar to the following screen

Network Pipelining

In the filter bar type network.http.pipelining. Normally it says ” false ” under value field , Double click it so it becomes ” true “.

Just underneath you should see network.http.pipelining.maxrequests. By <span style="font-weight: bold;" />default it says 4; set it to 8.

Once you finished this you should see the following screen.

Proxy Pipelining

Type network.http.proxy.pipelining in the filter bar. Just double click on the value field so it changes from "false" to "True"

Off with IPv6

The majority of us interweb users don't use IPv6 yet so search for network.dns.disableIPv6.

You want to change this from "false" to"True".

Plugin Path

 Same drill; find plugin.expose_full_path and change it to "True"

New Intergers

To make a new interger simply Right click -> New -> Integer. Then type nglayout.initialpaint.delay and click ok.

Then select 0 for the Value.

Again, Right click -> New -> Integer. Then typecontent.notify.backoffcount and click ok

Now enter 5 in value filed and click ok

Once More, Right click -> New -> Integer. Here type ui.submenuDelay and click ok. Enter 0 in value filed and done.

Firefox Memory Leak Fix

Open a new tab. Type “about:config” without quotes into the address bar and hit enter/click Go.

Right-click anywhere, select New, then Integer. In the dialog prompt that appears, type:

browser.cache.memory.capacity

Click OK. Another dialog prompt will appear. This is where you decide how much memory to allocate to Firefox. This depends on how much RAM your computer has, but generally you don’t want to allocate too little (under 8MB), but if you allocate too much, you might as well not do this. A good recommended setting is 16MB. If you want 16MB, enter this value into the dialog prompt:

16384

(Why 16384 instead of 16000? Because computers use binary counting. Thus 16 megabytes = 16 * 1024 = 16384 bytes. Likewise, if you want to double that and allocate 32MB, you’d enter 32768.)

Now just hit ok and restart Firefox. Now your Firefox will now be 3 - 30 times faster in loading pages.

For further Speed benefits see the Firefox Profile in RAM guide over at Ubuntu Forums