Speed Up Firefox and Internet Explorer

Posted by Jaren
Posted on August 4, 2007
Filed Under PC Stuffs |

For my test bed or should I say test laptop or test rig. I’m using my Core 2 duo laptop with Windows Vista Home Premium installed to test tips tweaks that i’ve been able to research. For my browser I’m using Firefox version 2.0.0.5 and Internet Explorer 7 and I have a Broadband DSL connection at 384kbps.

Now on to the Tweaking :

Lt’s tweak Firefox first since it’s my default browser…

On the Firefox Address bar: type about:config
this is very easy takes about 5 minutes

Search for these values :

“network.http.pipelining” — set the value to true
“network.http.proxy.pipelining” – set the value to true
“network.http.pipelining.maxrequests” – set the value to 8
“plugin.expose_full_path” – set the value to true
“nglayout.initialpaint.delay” — set the value to 0
“network.http.max-connections” — set the value to 48
“network.http.max-connections-per-server” — set the value to 16
“network.http.max-persistent-connections-per-proxy” — set the value to 16
“network.http.max-persistent-connections-per-server” — set the value to 8
“browser.cache.memory.capacity” — set the value to 65536

Restart Firefox, and its done.

Next stop : Speeding up Internet Explorer 7

I rarely use IE7… but oh well since were talking about speeding both browser I’ll just have to make an exception… for the sake of tweaking and optimizing galore…

Prepare to fire up your Registry Editor.

Click Start -> run type ‘regedit’ or Windows key + R then type ‘regedit’

Speed up IE7 page loading especially on multiple tabs and look for this key

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings]
“MaxConnectionsPerServer”= Changed it to dword:00000010
“MaxConnectionsPer1_0Server”=Changed it to dword:0000010

Exit ‘regedit’… no need to restart just Log off then login again… now prepare to enjoy fast browser with little effort on your part. hehehe!!!!and without using third party softwares…

Next topic would be streamlining Firefox and IE7

Oh yeah… from 300 “Prepare for Glory”

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