How to make Mozilla Firefox faster

Firstly, type "about:config" into the address bar and hit enter. This will redirect you to a warning page

Click on the button saying "I'll be careful, I promise!"

Now, scroll down and look for the following entries:

network.http.pipelining

network.http.proxy.pipelining

network.http.pipelining.maxrequests

Normally the browser makes one request to a web page at a time. But, when you enable the pipeline it will make several requests at a time, which speeds up your loading page.

Secondly, Modify 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 that it will make 30 requests at once.

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 wants before it acts on the information it receives.

After completing all these steps open any web page and see the difference.

Note: The last step works only for the older versions of the Firefox (before updated Firefox 8), however in the newer version the default value of network.http.pipelining.maxrequests is already set to 32 so you don't have to change it and also the newer version can take up to 8 request at a time so there's no need to go for the last step.