HELLO.. I JUST WANNA ASK/CONFIRM IF THIS SET-UP REALLY WORKS W/O ANY CONSEQUENCES.... TNX IN ADVANCE...... THIS IS TO SPEED UP FIREFOX: 1.Type "about:config" into the address bar and hit enter. Scroll down and look for the following entries: Quote: network.http. pipelining network.http. proxy.pipelining network.http. pipelining. maxrequests and browser.turbo. enabled Normally the browser will make one request to a web page at a time. When you enable pipelining it will make several at once, which really speeds up page loading. 2. Alter the entries as follows: Set "network.http. pipelining" to "true" Set "network.http. proxy.pipelining" to "true" Set "network.http. pipelining. maxrequests " to some number like 30. This means it will make 30 requests at once. (Max can only be 8, but people report 30. The 30 open connections is incorrect) Set "browser.turbo. enabled" to "true" 3. Lastly right-click anywhere and select New-> Integer. Name it "nglayout.initialpaint.delay" and set its value to "0". This value is the amount of time the browser waits before it acts on information it recieves.

it can cause issues with loading some pages. I did it on all my systems with FF and it hasn't affected anything yet. and no my name has nothing to do with the browser.

p.s. in the newer Firefox browsers the nglayout.initialpaint.delay option may not be present... just ignore it

Firefox by default comes with rather conservative settings to provide maximum stability on ANY system and internet connection. tweaks are plenty and may work or may not. if you're not comfortable with 'about:config' you can download firetune: http://www.totalidea.com/content/fi... firetune covers most of the known tweaks and offers an easy to use GUI, this way you can easily revert all settings. Today's subliminal thought is: 'Calm down ... it's only ones and zeros.'

Hi Mattie and Firefox. Interesting thread. I just deinstalled Firefox yesterday, due to the fact that it seemed as slow or slower than IE7. Maybe I was wrong. I mean slow, as in click on FF (or IE7) and wait, and wait, and wait. Etc. I have DSL, so it's not that I have a slow connection. I realize that I may have other issues, and they WILL be resolved. But, should I resinstall Firefox and try again? Thanks. A positive attitude won't solve all your problems, but it will annoy just enough people to be worth the effort.

nice info.... tnx to all of you guys.