about: Firefox

It just occurred to me that many of you are first time Firefox users due to discovering it in our class, so I thought it would be nice of me to include a little tip on making things run smoother. In your address bar type "about:config" (without the quotations of course). A bunch of strings will be displayed, but don't be alarmed only a few need to be changed.

# Set network.http.pipelining to true allowing for the use of HTTP/1.1 pipelining.
# Set network.http.pipelining.maxrequests to 16 so that Firefox can make more simultaneous connections for faster downloading
# Set network.http.proxy.pipelining to true (same as network.http.pipelining with proxies.
# Set network.prefetch-next to false. I think this cuts down memory usage because when set to true Firefox prefetchs "hinted" documents and store in the cache (e.g. the 1st Google Search result)
# Create and set nglayout.initialpaint.delay (integer) to 0 so that Firefox starts to render a page immediately (defaults to 250ms).

Other useful commands can be found here, but those are the main speed issue ones. Have fun!