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How to Turbo Charge Mozilla Firefox

1. Enter "about:config" in the address bar and hit return. Browse down the page and look for the entries below:

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

2. Change the entries below to "true"

"network.http.pipelining"
"network.http.proxy.pipelining"

Set "network.http.pipelining.maxrequests" to a high number like 25. (Default is 4)

Normally the browser will make one request to a web server at a time. Turning on pipelining will enable the browser to make multiple "parallel" requests at once. This won't work well for dialup, but should be good for high speed broadband users.

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