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hi all,

i got this from another forum. seems to work.

1. Type "about:config" without quotes into the address bar and hit return. Scroll down and look for the following entries:

network.http.pipelining

network.http.proxy.pipelining

network.http.pipelining.maxrequests

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.

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.

If you're using a broadband connection you'll load pages 2-3 times faster now.

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set "network.http.pipelining.maxrequests" to some number like 30. This means it will make 30 requests at once.

Wrong.

There's no need to set the setting to 30 either' date=' firefox is hard coded to only allow 10 requests.

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Wrong.

Valid values for this parameter are 1 to 8. More information over here:

http://kb.mozillazine.org/Network.http.pipelining.maxrequests

My advice is don't go tinkering with these values unless you know what you are doing. Instead, take heed from ClicheGuevara and get the FasterFox extension:

http://fasterfox.mozdev.org/

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It's crashed on me only a couple of times but usually when I'm trying to do silly things. My Firefox doesn't seem to be a big fan of audio of video content that plays automatically using Microsoft Media Player in particular.

I've noticed my Firefox version is 1.5.0.1 - have you got the latest version?

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