| Mozilla Firefox is an excellent web browser that does | | | | Increase Your Firefox Memory Cache |
| a much better job than Internet Explorer when it | | | | Your computer will automatically allot a memory cache |
| comes to protecting your privacy and computer | | | | for your Firefox browser. Increasing your browser |
| security. Unfortunately, Firefox can sometimes be | | | | cache will actually increase the amount of objects that |
| slower than Internet Explorer. The speed difference | | | | your browser can retain, which cuts down on time |
| between the two browsers is one of the main | | | | spent retrieving information from your hard disk or a |
| reasons why most people do not change their | | | | web server. As a result, your frequently visited pages |
| browser from the quicker yet more vulnerable Internet | | | | will load much faster. |
| Explorer to the slower but more secure Firefox | | | | You can modify the cache settings by going to the |
| browser, the other reason being that Firefox | | | | Firefox tools menu and clicking on Options. From here, |
| introduces many new features that simply take more | | | | click on the "Advanced" tab, then the "Network" tab. |
| time to learn than some users are willing to invest. To | | | | On the network tab, you can specify any cache size |
| get the best of both worlds - speed and security of | | | | you like, but it is doubtful you will need more than about |
| browsing - you can download Mozilla Firefox and | | | | 32 Megabytes of cache. |
| speed it up with these tips. | | | | Block Unwanted Advertisements |
| Pipelining | | | | One of the best ways to speed up Firefox is by using |
| This tweak is very easy to accomplish. On your | | | | an Ad Removal extension, such as AdBlock Plus. |
| Firefox web browser address bar, type about:config, | | | | AdBlock Plus can be installed at and it works to block |
| then press Enter. Scroll through the list of values and | | | | annoying banner ads. AdBlock Plus also features a |
| look for these three crucial pipelining settings: | | | | "learning" feature, meaning you can right-click on |
| network.http.pipelining, network.http.proxy.pipelining, and | | | | unblocked ads and set them to be blocked, as well. |
| network.http.pipelining.maxrequests. You can use the | | | | Even with no other optimizations, Firefox will load most |
| filter to easily find each of these entries. | | | | pages much faster than Internet Explorer when using |
| For the pipelining entry, you should change the value to | | | | AdBlock Plus, because it does not have to worry |
| true. Just double click the false value to make this | | | | about downloading all of the annoying, unwanted ads |
| change. For the maxrequests entry, the default setting | | | | that clutter up so many webpages. |
| is four. Change the value to your desired number. This | | | | Another plugin, called FasterFox, implements a large |
| value determines how many page requests Firefox is | | | | number of tweaks based on increasing the speed of |
| capable of making. You can go as high as 8 to speed | | | | your browsing. FasterFox is available from: |
| up your tabbed browsing. Finally, go to proxy.pipelining | | | | With these tips, you can speed up Firefox |
| and change the value from false to true. | | | | considerably, so don't let the slow performance you |
| Doing the above steps will give you greater browsing | | | | may have experienced deter you any longer. Firefox |
| speeds by allowing Firefox to process and send | | | | works to provide a much safer browsing experience |
| requests simultaneously instead of waiting until a | | | | than Internet Explorer, and its plugin interface allows for |
| response has been received from a previous request. | | | | unprecedented levels of customization and |
| This will also reduce network bottlenecks by packing | | | | convenience. |
| multiple requests into a single data packet. | | | | |