Mozilla Firefox version 3 is an incredible browser! The biggest benefit of FF 3 is it's speed. Many people are reporting that benchmarks and real use confirm it's the fastest browser ever. No joke.
Now, here's the really cool thing. You can make it even faster. That's right. Basically, you need to go into the about
:config (open a new tab and enter about
:config into the address bar).
You can do a google on about
:config tweaks, and come up a bunch of different websites all talking about different changes you can make. I looked at several different sites and condensed all the speed tweaks into a single list. Here it is. Note: The first number is the default, the second is the value which you should change it to.
Here's that list:
1. Non speed related tweaks- browser.tabs.tabMinWidth 100 to 75
- layout.spellcheckDefault 1 to 2 (enables spellcheck for one line fields)
- extensions.checkCompatibility (right click and create a new Boolean) false
- extensions.dss.enabled false to true
2. Speed tweaks- network.http.pipelining false to true
- network.http.pipelining.maxrequests 30 to 8
- network.http.max-connections 30 to 96
- network.http.max-connections-per-server 15 to 32
- network.http.max-persistent-connections-per-server 6 to 8
- network.http.pipelining.ssl false to true
- network.http.proxy.pipelining false to true
THIS REALLY WORKS! NOT KIDDING!!!
Source:
A/V Hacks: Make Firefox 3 Even Faster