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Tip of the Week: Turbo Charge FireFox
Many feel that FireFox is the fastest browser for Internet surfing, but if you are on a broadband or high-speed Internet connection, you can make it even faster (by default it is configured for dial-up connections).
WARNING: This tip requires you to make changes to the way FireFox works and if not performed properly can cause performance issues.
If I have not scared you off yet, here are the steps to tell FireFox to download multiple items on a page at once, instead of one at a time:
- In the address bar, type “about:config” and hit return. Next, in the filter field, type “network.http” and change the following settings
(double-click on them to change them):
Set “network.http.pipelining” to “true”
Set “network.http.proxy.pipelining” to “true”
Set “network.http.pipelining.maxrequests” to 30. This will allow it to make 30 requests at once, if you see a reduction in performance, reduce it to 20, etc.