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Frequently Asked Question

How can I optimise my browser?

Increase your browser page transfer speed!

Everybody wants to load webpages fast. There are many popular webbrowsers out there and they all have a different type of handling with webpages (see Stats). The two webbrowsers with the biggest market share, Mozilla Firefox 3 , Microsoft Internet Explorer 7 and Google Chrome can be tweaked for speed. Your webpages will now load up to 4 times faster! It's easy and the changes are made within a few minutes. After that, you'll save lots of time browsing on The Internet.

Its very easy. First of all, Download the latest free browsers on their respecting website:

To speed up your browser, follow the next steps for your browser.

Microsoft Internet Explorer 7

  1. Go to "Start" and click on "Run"
  2. Enter "regedit" and hit "Ok" and now the Registry Editor will open
  3. Expand "HKEY_CURRENT_USER"
  4. Expand Software, Microsoft, Windows, Current Version
  5. Click on Internet Settings
  6. MaxConnectionPer1_0Server and MaxConnectionPerServer indicates the maximum number of connections per page
  7. Double click on one of these registries to change it. Set the radio button to DECIMAL and increase the values from default to a higher value, for example 10. Do the same with the other registry.

Mozilla Firefox 2

  1. Start Firefox and type: about:config in the address bar and hit "Enter".
  2. Type: network.http.pipe in the Filter search bar on top.
  3. Double click on the network.http.pipelining string to change its value to true.
    If you use a proxy, set network.http.proxy.pipelining to true as well.
  4. Double click on the network.http.pipelining.maxrequests string to change its interger value to 35.
  5. Right click anywhere on the Configuration screen and select "New" and then "Boolean".
  6. Enter browser.turbo.enabled as the new Boolean name and click "Ok". Now set the value of the Boolean to true.

*NOTE*: Additionally you can also install the Fasterfox Plugin. This plugin helps you to tweak and speed up Firefox too.

Optimizing Firefox 3 Hacks And Tweaks

The following tweaks are obtained by typing about:config and then modifying the page. Make sure you take a back up copy just in case something goes wrong. Here are some of the hacks for the experimantally oriented.

Step one: Type about:config in the address bar and hit enter

Step two: Make the following modifications to the file by typing in the values on the respective fields to get the desired result (feel free to experiment)

all the possible modifications on Firefox 3

1. To enable/disable Single Click Select URL of address bar

browser.urlbar.clickSelectsAll = True 
browser.urlbar.clickSelectsAll = False


2. To auto Complete URL while typing in the address Bar

browser.urlbar.autoFill=True


3.To set the number of auto complete URL in the address bar

browser.urlbar.maxRichResults = #

(# indicates the number of auto complete URLs shown. The default is 12)



4. To disabler Browser Toolbar Tip

browser.chrome.toolbar_tips = False


5. To paste copied content by clicking the center button on the mouse

middlemouse.paste = True


6. To disable blinking text

browser.blink_allowed = False


7. To create a single close button to for all Firefox Opened Tabs.

browser.tabs.closeButtons = 3


8. To increase number of recently closed tabs.

browser.sessionstore.max_tabs_undo=15


9. Right click view source in your editor

view_source.editor.external=True
view_source.editor.path= Path of Editor 


10. To enable fast scrolling across tabs

toolkit.scrollbox.scrollIncrement =75

11. To stop displaying website icon in address bar and on the tabs

browser.chrome.site_icons = False


12. To enable spell check in text fields

layout.spellcheckDefault = 2


13. To speed up the browser

network.http.max-connections 30 to 96
network.http.max-connections-per-server 15 to 32
network.http.max-persistent-connections-per-server 6 to 8
network.http.pipelining false to true
network.http.proxy.pipelining false to true
network.http.pipelining.maxrequests 30 to 8
network.http.pipelining.ssl false to true
network.http.proxy.pipelining false to true


14. To disable annoying browser behavior

Change the followowing values to 'false'

dom.disable_window_open_feature.titlebar
dom.disable_window_open_feature.menubar
dom.disable_window_move_resize
dom.disable_window_open_feature.toolbar


15. To show more tabs on single window

browser.tabs.tabMinWidth = 75


16. To display search results in new tab

browser.search.openintab=True.
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We have used many of the above about:config hacks with Firefox 2 before and it is working for the new version as well. If some thing goes wrong after applying these changes, restore your about:config to older setting. If you are bored, just key about:Mozilla or about:robots into the Firefox 3 address bar....

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