Speed up your FireFox



The Inquirer

All you’ve got to do is type “about:config” into your address bar, wait for it to load, then alter the following entries: change “network.http.pipelining” to “true”, “network.http.proxy.pipelining” to “true” and lastly “network.http.pipelining.maxrequests” to 30, meaning it will be able to make 30 requests at once.

About Todd Cochrane

Todd Cochrane is the Founder of Geek News Central and host of the Geek News Central Podcast. He is a Podcast Hall of Fame Inductee and was one of the very first podcasters in 2004. He wrote the first book on podcasting, and did many of the early Podcast Advertising deals in the podcasting space. He does two other podcasts in addition to Geek News Central. The New Media Show and Podcast Legends.


3 thoughts on “Speed up your FireFox

  1. Speaking of not researching, setting the maxrequests to 30 will not do any good anyways, as the hard limit is 8, so anything over 8 will be ignored.

  2. GAH! I wish people would do a bit more research before posting this sort of information. Think about this line for a moment: ‘”network.http.pipelining.maxrequests” to 30, meaning it will be able to make 30 requests at once.’

    That means your browser will make 30 requests at once. Perhaps you will speed up your connection, if the site isn’t busy, but you will slow down that site. Now imagine a site that gets 10000 visitors a day. Instead of 10000 requests, it’ll get 300000.

    So using this way to speed up Firefox, you greedy bastards, will start knocking sites offline as their servers get overwhelmed by unexpected requests.

    Nice work.

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