firefox browser too slow

just installed latest firefox browser. it is about 5 times slower than the flock browser i was using. any ideas please?

 

Hi,

Firefox pages runs faster by allowing multiple connections so it can download more than one file at a time. It’s only useful for broadband users, so if you’re still on dial-up you can just skip this one for now.

Here’s something for broadband people that will really speed Firefox up:

1.Type “about:config” into the address bar and hit return. Scroll down and look for the following entries:

network.http.pipelining network.http.proxy.pipelining network.http.pipelining.maxrequests

Normally the browser will make one request to a web page at a time. When you enable pipelining it will make several at once, which really speeds up page loading.

2. Alter the entries as follows:

Set “network.http.pipelining” to “true”

Set “network.http.proxy.pipelining” to “true”

Set “network.http.pipelining.maxrequests” to some number like 30. This means it will make 30 requests at once.

3. Lastly right-click anywhere and select New-> Integer. Name it “nglayout.initialpaint.delay” and set its value to “0″. This value is the amount of time the browser waits before it acts on information it receives.

If you’re using a broadband connection you’ll load pages MUCH faster now!

 

Just follow these steps and should speed up browsing in firefox. If its still causing a problem I would suggest switching browser I would give opera 10.50 a try as that is lightning fast.

 

i do have dial up. but why would they do that? they know there are dial up users, cant they make it at least as fast as flock or internet explorer? seems goofy to me. thanks

 

Great tip!! I just done this to my firefox browser and it really does work! THANKS!

 

im sorry not sure about dial up but you could try doing the steps to see if it does speed it up a little bit. No harm done.