Comments on: Speed up Firefox with these tweaks

By: anonymous

anonymous — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 03:08:12 +0000

Bruce: the interface only allows a right click on an existing table – so make sure you click the “Show All” button, and when you right click, do it on one of the existing entries.
oh! just realised you might not know how to right-click. Either hold down the “CTRL” button and click normally, or you can set a preference in “System Preferences->Mouse” to allow “two-finger” clicking, where you hold two fingers on the mouse pad and click to make a right click.

Good luck!

By: Bruce

Bruce — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 03:37:05 +0000

so i tried doing this on my mac, but it won’t let me add entries, because i can’t right click

By: Denis

Denis — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 12:41:37 +0000

Thank you – this seems to have solved major problems I was having with Firefox 3 freezing and showing a beachball on Leopard 10.5

By: Jay

Jay — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 23:43:37 +0000

Wow, this really works, i wish I knew this long ago. Thanks for sharing this! Also, if theres any Mozilla devolopers reading this, please take note and add this to the new release!! Peace

By: mastermind

mastermind — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 10:44:13 +0000

Thanks very much for these great tips. When i first downloaded firefox 3 i recognized that it was slower than firefox which is also great. I didnt paymuch attention to speed, but now after i tried these tips, firefox3 seemed to work REALLY fast!!! with fast broadband DSL connection firefox is making webbrowsing much faster with the tips above!! i wonder why the developers of firefox didnt put these tips as default configuartions for the browser, that would have made firefox3 faster in the first place and gave better reputation to the newly released firefox…:P anyways, even if firefox 3 was a bit slower than the previous ones, one should put in mind that its a n open source browser and addons and patches can be made for it and thus problems can be solved! this is flexible software at least! it is not IE! IE SUCKS!!! especially IE7 ! LONG LIVE THE OPEN SOURCE COMMUNITY! LONG LIVE FIREFOX! :p:p:p:p:p

By: firefox techy

firefox techy — Sat, 13 Sep 2008 17:28:56 +0000

Superb guide it certainly seems to speed up firefox big time! and I wouldnt be without this mod..
However I should point out that there is no point setting ‘network.http.pipelining.maxrequests’ as any higher than ‘8′ as this is the max according to what I read here.. http://www.nettechguide.com/how-to-speed-up-firefox-page-loading-times

Tech Master

By: Chgot

Chgot — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 15:37:19 +0000

Just a problem with
nglayout.initialpaint.delay
it was already in my list, and I changed the value from 600 to 0 as required, but when I close and reopen FF, the value is set back to 600. Other boolean values are NOT reset after reopening. What can I do? Is there a “Save” feature or something?

By: jytdog

jytdog — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 02:00:25 +0000

I just tried to get fasterfox — there is no version at mozilla or the developers site that is compatible with firefox 3.0.1. i tried to install anyway and firefox rejected it because it was “not compatible!”

By: Nagendra

Nagendra — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 23:19:12 +0000

I had been using Firefox 2 and was pretty happy with the performance. I recently upgraded to FF 3 and the drop in speed was painfully obvious. The same page took significantly longer to load and refresh. I stumbled on your blog while Googling and tried the “FasterFox” add-on suggested by Phil. Thanks Phil, my FireFox is amazingly fast now.
~Nagendra

By: Jay

Jay — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 22:22:29 +0000

Hey,

I just switched over to this from IE7 it is really nice. 1 question though if Firefox was not better than MS no one complains about it. if MS makes one mistake the whole world stop revolving and everyone protests.