How to Speed Up Firefox 4

There is a joke about the high speed of rocket. Most probably all of you know to it. If fire applied to a fox it should be run so fast like the rocket theory. But unfortunately the browser Firefox don't know that. As a result some manual works are needed to do that.

If the browsing software becomes slow, all works related to it becomes slow. It's more irritating is low bandwidth areas. To keep you a little cool in such a situation, the below article will help.

Step 1: Performance tweaks for firefox 4 to increase the browsing speed

Type "about:config" (without the quotes) in the address bar. And proceed by pressing the "I'll be careful, I promise button." Now in the filter field type in the following values one by one and set its value accordingly. For example, type network.http.pipelining, you will see the corresponding value appearing below, double clicking it will set the value to true or false and if its some thing which has a value to be set, a popup window appears where you could enter the value for the field.

set network.http.pipelining to true;

set network.http.proxy.pipelining to true;

set network.http.pipelining.maxrequests to 12;

set content.notify.backoffcount to 5;

set plugin.expose_full_path to true;

set ui.submenuDelay to 0;

set network.dns.disableIPv6 to true;

set javascript.options.jit.chrome to true;

set javascript.options.jit.content to true;

If one of the above value doesn't appear, then follow the steps below.

For a setting with true or false value. For example, if you don’t see the value being displayed below while typing content.notify.backoffcount on the filter field just right click on an empty space and select Boolean from New. Type content.notify.backoffcount in the box and set its value to true.

"Nieuw" is Dutch for "New".

The same is applicable if you are setting a integer value, except that you need to select Integer from the right click menu.

Step 2: Speed Up Firefox 4 by cleaning up the SQL Data base

Firefox uses a My Sql Database where various values and entries are being stored during its usage. With time these get accumulated like unwanted registry entries left behind after an uninstallation in windows. So it's necessary to clean the Firefox 4 Database once in a while.

For this, Press Ctrl + Shift + J in your firefox browser. You would see the error console window being displayed.

Click inside the code field and paste the following code and press on Evaluate.

Code:

Components.classes["@mozilla.org/browser/nav-history-service;1"].getService(Components.interfaces.nsPIPlacesDatabase).DBConnection

Firefox will now freeze for some time and will be back to normal.

Step 3: Disable Hardware Acceleration

This tip only for peoples have slow pc with slow net connection. Slow pc means here low graphics card and Ram also. Disabling this feature can make your Firefox 4 load faster and trouble free. Follow the below steps.