how to speed up the mozilla firefox browser as i'm a XP user but i'm not using broadband?

Answer 1

You're not actually talking about speeding up Firefox here, you're talking about speeding up your internet connection. Firefox, and indeed any browser, can only display pages to you as quickly as your internet connection can download them, and the only way to speed that up is to get broadband.

Answer 2

1. Type ' about:config ' into the address bar and hit return. Scroll down and look for the following entries:

network.hxxp.pipelining
network.hxxp.proxy.pipelining
network.hxxp.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.hxxp.pipelining\" to \"true\"
Set \"network.hxxp.proxy.pipelining\" to \"true\"
Set \"network.hxxp.pipelining.maxrequests\" to number 7.
This means it will make 7 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 receives.
If you're using a broadband connection you'll load pages about 10% Faster.

I have set up like this which I found to be the best with my ISP.

Set \"network.hxxp.max-connections\" to \"48\"

Set \"network.hxxp.max-connections-per-server\" to \"16\"

Set \"network.hxxp.max-persistent-connections-per-proxy\" to \"12\"

Set \"network.hxxp.max-persistent-connections-per-server\" to \"16\"

Set \"network.hxxp.pipelining\" to \"true\"

Set \"network.hxxp.proxy.pipelining\" to \"true\"

Set \"network.hxxp.pipelining.maxrequests\" to \"8\".
Any more and you may get banned from the site visited, as it may be viewed as DOS attack. Try a higher value say upto "32\" but be prepared to lower the value if sites fail to lo

Answer 3

If pages in Internet Explorer are loading fast compared to Firefox try increasing your RAM memory. I will recommend 1GB RAM.

Answer 4

Chances are it ain't the browser problem. You'd probably be slow no matter which browser you use. And you may have too many tabs to open for it to be fast.

Answer 5

your PC will only run as fast as the proseser and your sever [stop think where are you and where is the net work?????]