firefox slow

[Gamingfreak]

like many people i have gone from IE to firefox but i find it quite a bit slower, ive done all that stuff in the "about:config" options but its still slow, is there a reason for that?

 

[BuzzStPoint]

Slow? thats odd I found it to be at least 2x as fast as IE.

How many plugins or extentions do you have on FF?

 

[Kalgatha]

the "about:config" ok ...your gonna have to tell me about ff now...lol...i just dl it and installed it havent' really messed w/ it tho

 

[BuzzStPoint]

in the address bar type about : config (no spaces

this brings up FF configuration. You can tweak like mad to make this browser fit you.

 

[Gamingfreak]

i have one extension and thats it most of the time its...ok but its still slow images load really slow and i dont know why

 

[dyserq]

If you loading normal webpages, such as MSN or something, than it will load the images last, while it loads text first.

 

[RoyalT]

I got a small amount of tweaks below:

network.http.pipelining, true
network.http.pipelining.maxrequests, 8
network.http.max-connections, 48
network.http.max-connections-per-server, 16
network.http.max-persistent-connections-per-server, 8

 

[Dynamix]

Use FireTune speeds up firefox alot:
Please see
http://www.download.com/FireTune-for-Firefox-1-x/3000-2366_4-10409308.html?tag=lst-0-1
Regards

 

[wiktorek01]

How can a program speed it up? I don't really understand...

 

[Gamingfreak]

RoyalT the tweaks you suggested worked perfectly its way faster now thx a lot

thx to the rest of you as well for all your comments