This will make your pages load even faster.

1. Type "about:config" 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: (by double clicking them)

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. (I changed mine to 100, works great.)

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.

Also to make firefox launch faster in WinXP:
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n Windows XP you can speed up the loading of programs by making it one of the programs that XP "Prefetches". Prefetching works by letting XP have portions of a program already loaded to your hard drive. To do this for Firefox, find the Start Menu entry for Firefox and right click it, then select properties. In the 'Target' box add the following line at the end of the file path.

/Prefetch:1

Your Target box should now look something like this.

"C:Program FilesMozilla Firefoxfirefox.exe" /Prefetch:1

It really makes a difference in page loading in your Firefox browser... most pages that is...there are some, we will not mention names, that still seem to hang. I would say the page loading it about 40-50% faster. But this only works on broadband connections.

Cheers,
Micheál

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