How to make Mozilla Firefox Faster

Mozilla Firefox is one of the most popular web browsers in the world, and for good reason. In addition to it being free, Firefox provides a reliable and secure internet surfing experience that many people prefer over other browsers. But like those other browsers, Firefox’s speed can sometimes begin to deteriorate. When this happens, it might take you longer to load certain webpages or download certain files, which can be quite frustrating. If your Firefox speed is suffering, the following tips and shortcuts will help you increase your speed and get Firefox back to normal in no time at all

Enable pipelining.

Type "about:config" into the address bar and hit Enter.

Search for “pipelining”

·         Set “network.http.pipeling” to true by double clicking it.

·         Set "network.http.proxy.pipelining" (enabling pipelining in proxy) to true by double-clicking it.

·         Set “network.http.pipelining.ssl” to true by doublie clicking it.

• Set "network.http.pipelining.maxrequests" to 8 by double-clicking it. This means it will make 8 requests at once. There is no point setting it higher than 8 as it will make Firefox load pages slower instead. The default value is 32.

Extensions Make it Slow

As much as you may love the little extensions peppering your browser, ultimately it slows down Firefox. When we come across a shiny, new extension, we feel like we would use it every day, but often we forget about it and it runs in the background slowing it down. You can check if such extensions are using up too much memory by clicking on the wrench menu beside the Address Bar and using the View Background Pages option. If you find any extension that you haven’t been using recently (or will not, in the future) then disable them.

 

Install FastestFox

Remember how I was rambling on about keeping your extensions to a minimum? Well, there’s one extension you must have to help you have a better experience with Firefox. It’s called FastestFox.

FastestFox comes with features like endless pages loading, open searches in a new tab with middle mouse click and automatically turns text URLs into links. It does not reduce the memory your Firefox browser takes up, but it make your usage experience much faster and better.

 

Disable Firefox auto-update (security risk). 

Go to Firefox menu > Options > Advanced > Update then choose "Never check for updates (not recommended: security risk)".