Speed up Firefox 7 Changing Preferences Change the following preferences to the new values shown.

If the preference is already set to this value then skip it and move on the next. If the preference does not exist then you need to add it: browser.display.show_image_placeholders: false Stops the display of placeholders while images are loading to speed up the page. Default is True content.notify.backoffcount: 5 Sets the maximum number of times the content will do timer-based reflows to 5. After this, the page will only reflow once it is finished downloading. This is a new integer value. Default is -1 (no limit) content.notify.interval: 120000 Sets the minimum amount of time to wait between periodic reflowing of the page to 0.12 seconds stops Firefox becoming slow by reflowing too frequently. This is a new integer value. Default is 120000 content.max.tokenizing.time: 360000 Sets the maximum amount of time Firefox will be unresponsive while rendering pages set to 3 times the content.notify.interval above. This is a new integer value. Default is 360000 content.notify.ontimer: true Ensures Firefox does not reflow pages at an interval any higher than that specified by content.notify.interval above. This is a new Boolean value. Default is True content.interrupt.parsing: true Sets Firefox to interrupt parsing a page to respond to UI (user interface) events to prevent it becoming unresponsive until parsing is complete. This is a new Boolean value. Default is True content.switch.threshold: 750000 Sets the number of microseconds of inactivity that puts Firefox into low frequency interrupt mode. This is a new integer value. Default is 750000 network.prefetch-next: false Stops Firefox automatically prefetching (loading) the contents of pages linked to by the page you are viewing in most cases you will never visit those links so this time

is wasted and it is a security risk because you are unwittingly downloading (possible virus/adult) content only linked to by the current page but which you have not chosen to load. Default is True network.http.max-persistent-connections-per-server: 8 Increases the maximum number of persistent connections per server which can help speed up loading of multimedia rich sites. Default is 6 network.http.pipelining: true Can send multiple requests to a server together in order to speed up loading of webpages. This is not supported by ALL servers some servers may even behave incorrectly if they receive pipelined requests. Default is False network.http.pipelining.maxrequests: 8 Sets a maximum number of multiple requests that can be pipelined to prevent overloading the server. Higher values will cause a delay before the first request completes but will make the last request complete sooner. Higher values will also cause more of a delay if a connection fails. The maximum value is 8. Default is 4 network.dns.disableIPv6: true Disables IPv6 DNS lookups to prevent a significant delay with poorly configured IPv6 servers. Default is False browser.tabs.animate: false Disables all tab animation features (e.g. when you click the New Tab (+) button) to make the tab interface feel quicker. Default is True