Increase the speed of Firefox

Updated: 04/26/2017 by Computer Hope

If you have a broadband Internet connection and use Firefox you can decrease the time each web page you visit loads by enabling pipelining. Pipelining makes Firefox load more than one request at a time for each page it loads. In other words, if the page you are visiting has several images it loads more than one image at a time, making the web page appear faster. Follow the steps below to enable pipelining in Firefox.

  1. In the address bar type about:config and press Enter.
  2. In pipelining in the search box, as shown below.
  3. Double-click network.http.pipelining to set the Value to true.
  4. Double-click network.http.proxy.pipelining to set the Value to true.
  5. Make sure network.http.pipelining.maxrequests is set to a Value of more than 30.
  6. Right-click in an empty portion of the about:config window and click New and then Integer. Enter nglayout.initialpaint.delay as the name of the integer and for the value make it 0.

Firefox about:config pipelining