Speed up little Firefox, speed up.

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Firefox is too FAT:

Hunting around a bit I found an excellent little post that explains how to stop this memory vacuum from getting away from you.

1. Simply type about:config in your browser’s address bar.

2. On the resulting screen, right-click and select New -> Boolean.

3. In the input box that appears, type config.trim_on_minimize. Press enter.

4. Select True, and hit enter.What this does is causes Firefox to dump to your hard drive when you minimize it. Upon re-maximization, it loads back into RAM, but at a fraction of the bloated size it was. As an example, I just checked Firefox’s memory usage. With three tabs open, I was sitting around 80 MB of RAM being used. On minimization, this immediately dropped to under 10 MB. The upon maximization, it went up to 40 MB or so.

Firefox is too Slow:

If you’re on high speed Internet, you’re also going to want to consider this little speed-up trick. By default Firefox is set to only download pages to your browser with four simultaneous connections. This is alright if you’re on dial-up, but broadband can handle a lot more than that.

1. Again type about:config in your browser’s address bar.

2. On the config page, look for these three entries: network.http.pipelining, network.http.proxy.pipelining, and network.http.pipelining.maxrequests.

3. Change network.http.pipelining and network.http.proxy.pipelining to True.

4. Change network.http.pipelining.maxrequests to a higher number based on your net speed – somewhere between 10 and 30 ought to do it.

5. As a final step, right-click the screen and select New-> Integer. Name it nglayout.initialpaint.delay and set its value to “0″. This sets the amount of time the browser sits on its ass before acting.See the original article at Forever Geek. And if you are using IE, bang your head against your desk five times and then check out this video for a solution just for you.And finally, if that’s not enough – check out this nifty tool for tuning up Firefox. Appropriately named FireTune, the free application from Totalidea Software tunes up Firefox to work faster (very likely by implementing some of the above).

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