How To > Speed Up Firefox For Smartasses

Tuesday, March 13th, 2007 | Internet, Smartass, Software

Some people like the for dummies books, for me… It’s too much worthless information to look through.  I just want a 5 second tutorial and a blood cheat sheet.  Besides you are most likely a very smart person since you are browsing my site AND using firefox if you clicked on this article.  So I am not going to bother explaining what each of the below values are, if you don’t know and want to, google them.

Open new tab > Enter about:config in address bar > you are now at a hard core settings page.  You will notice that if you start typing it eliminates your choices to narrow your search so just Copy and Paste the names I list below.  Some of the following items will be listed in your firefox, and some of them you will not be able to find AT ALL, so if it exists change the number, if it doesn’t > Right click and choose Create New.  I will list the names and the values to put in below (FYI: For creating New items, if it’s true/false choose boolean and if it’s a number choose integer.. that’s it, edit or create the values and restart your browser, it will be faster.

  • browser.cache.memory.capacity  -  65536
  • ui.submenuDelay  -  0
  • nglayout.initialpaint.delay  -  0
  • content.switch.threshold  -  750000
  • content.interrupt.parsing  -  True
  • network.http.pipelining  -  True
  • network.http.pipelining.maxrequests  -  8
  • network.http.proxy.pipelining  -  True
  • network.dns.disableIPv6  -  True
  • content.interrupt.parsing  -  True
  • content.max.tokenizing.time  -  2250000
  • content.notify.interval  -  750000
  • content.notify.ontimer  -  True
  • content.notify.backoffcount  -  5

2 Comments to How To > Speed Up Firefox For Smartasses

Byron13 Byron13
03/14

Thanks for this.

This is for sure in the top 3 most helpful education articles for smartass.info.

Cheers

BS BS
03/14

heh…. It’s not like I have even had this section for long. Before my big section was Ask-a-Smartass, but I made the submission and feed system myself and it wasn’t going into a database. It got too big and I had to stop it, since I have no filtering and no database and the feed was starting to take too long to load… sigh…

This is it’s replacement. I figure I have or know of plenty of helpful info that site patrons should know, so what the hell right?

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