Firefox hack

Written by Nicholas Francis on October 3, 2007 – 4:07 am -

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Generally I prefer to switch to different browser every once in a while. It may be that I am browser-maniac or it may be just to avoid monotony of using the same browser. As a Blogger, I remain hooked on to the Internet most of the time. Though I use Firefox,Opera, Mozilla(in the order of usage), I have to test Web Applications in Internet Explorer as majority of users still rely on it despite of its limitations and security loop-holes. One thing which excites me is the possibility of playing around with configuration settings of Firefox and Mozilla. The so-called “hacks”
lets us tweak the browser performance and get the maximum in terms of performance, security and of course a bit of thrill. The following browser tweaks I found in a tech column in PC Magazine and is expected to speed-up the loading of pages.
1)Open up the configuration variables by typing “about:config” in the address bar and pressing “Enter”.
2) Search for “network .http.pipelining” and set it to “true”.
3) Search for “network.http.proxy.pipelining” and set it to “true”.
4) Search for “network.http.pipelining.maxrequests” and increase it to value like “20 “.
Basically, these changes allow the browser to make multiple page requests at the same time.