3 Hacks to speed up Firefox Drastically

Firefox has been the most downloaded internet browser for almost 5 years now. It is fast, flexible and secure moreover it also allows you to indulge yourself to a few millions of plugins that it offers.

If you landed here looking for tricks to speed up your Firefox, Bingo !! You are in the right place. Trying out the below given tweaks will make your experience with Firefox even greater.

Reduce the amount of Memory Firefox uses for it’s cache

1. Open up your browser (Firefox obviously) and type “about:config” in the address bar.
Once again click the “I’ll be careful I Promise” warning button to open a long list of configurable preferences.

2. Find “browser.sessionhistory.max_total_viewer”

3. Set it’s value to 0(Zero)

Reduce Memory usage by 10 times when Firefox is minimized

Normally Firefox consume a huge amount of the RAM memory even when it is minimised. Use these tweaks to reduce memory usage by nearly 10 times when you minimise Firefox.

1. Open up your browser again and type “about:config” in the address bar.

Once again click the “I’ll be careful I Promise” warning button to open a long list of configurable preferences.

2. Right Click within the page and select New>Boolean.

3. Type the following in the box will opens up config.trim_on_minimize and press Enter.

4. Now click on true and after closing restart the browser.

Increase your RAM's ability to accommodate more packet transfer

1.   Open up your browser again and type “about:config” in the address bar.Once again click the “I’ll be careful I Promise” warning button to open a long list of configurable preferences.

2.   In the same config page, scroll down to the line that says network.http.pipelining . Double click on it to set it to "true".

3.   Next, we will increase the maximum pipeline requests to 100. Find the line that says network.http.pipelining.maxrequests. Double click on it, and a dialog box will pop up. Change the setting from 4 to 100.

4.   Next you just need to close your browser and reopen it. That's all, and it will immidiately boost your speed by 30-40%.