Learn How to Make Firefox Faster

If you are a Mozilla Firefox user, you may enhance your browsing experience and save your precious time making Firefox faster. Yes, there are some simple tweaks that you can do in the Firefox settings, which will make the browser load page faster. You may ask a computer support provider to help you in this regard. Or else, go through this article and lean how you can do it.

Mozilla Firefox is the most popular web browser and it has the largest user base in the world. Although Google Chrome, its nearest rival, is giving tough competition, but it is still used by maximum number of users. You just need to make a few 'under the hood' changes in the browser's settings. It will make Firefox run faster and even you will experience faster downloads.

The first thing what you need to do to make Firefox start faster is set its priority to 'high' through the task manager. Then you need to try Pipelining Trick. Enabling a feature called 'pipelining' you can make the browser send several requests to the server. This ultimately results faster page loading. Don't know how to enable pipelining? Just type 'about:config', (without single quotes) in the Mozilla web browser and press enter. You will get Firefox warning mentioning system instability if changes in settings are made. You don't need to worry about this, just click ok.

This will bring a list of Firefox settings. Type 'Ctrl + F' and find the following settings: 'network.http.pipelining' and 'network.http.proxy.pipelining'. Set their Boolean values to 'True' by double-clicking on them. Locate 'network.http.pipelining.maxrequests' and double-click on it and set its value to 8. This will decrease page loading time and make the web browser run faster.

Now type 'about:config' in the address bar and right click for creating a new integer variable. The preference name should be 'content.notify.interval.' Set its value to be 500000. Now create a Boolean variable by right-clicking on the page. You should name it as 'content.notify.ontimer' and set its value to 'true'.

Tweaking the content switch threshold loading time, you can enhance the speed of Firefox browser. Type 'about:config' in the address bar again and right click to create an integer variable. Give the name 'content.switch.threshold' and set its value to 250000. It is also recommended to increase the browser Cache size.

Alike other browsers, Firefox also stores certain pages in its cache at the time of browsing. Once these pages are opened up once, it will load the page faster next time. Increase the cache size. Go through 'about:config' for increasing cache size. Create a new integer variable by right clicking on the page. Name this as 'browser.cache.memory.capacity.' Set the value to '65536'. Restart the browser, due to the larger cache, Firefox will work much faster.

Doing these tweaks you can make the Firefox run faster. You can get tech support from a reliable PC support provider for more help in this regard.

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Installing 7-Zip and Firefox on Windows 7

7-zip

7-zip is software that allows you to open and extract.zip,.rar files, this type of file is a compressed file that can contain multiple files and folders, and is normally used to shrink a large file down to save space or to group up files for easier transfer/sending.

Go to 7-zip's website and select the "Download" link from the left hand side.Then select the correct download link, most will select the top one.Once selected you should get redirected to a "source forge" website this is normal, you should now get a pop up asking you to, Run, Save or Cancel. Click on RunOnce the file has downloaded to your computer you should get another pop box asking you if you're sure that you want to run this programme, click yes.Now the programme has started to install you will see a screen that shows you the option where you want the installed files to be places (Destination Folder). Leave this, unless you need/want to customise the install. Then click on "Install"The install will complete and you will see the screen has changed and now shows a "Finish" button, click it.Now to check that the software has been install correctly click on the windows start button on the left bottom side of the screen, you should see 7-zip under Programs click on it and then select "7-Zip File Manager" and if installed correctly then the software will launch.

Firefox

Firefox is software that allows you to browse the internet, allowing you to serve the internet with easy and fast. There are other browsers out there but this one is along with Internet Explorer by Microsoft are the most common used.

Go to Firefox website and then select "Firefox, Free Download" from the green box on the left.Then the next page will show up and there is install instructions on that page, but also now a box pops up asking you to, Run, Save, Cancel. Click Run.Once the file has downloaded the next pop up will ask you if you're sure you want to run the file. Click Yes.The next screen should pop up and this is just information saying that you're about to install, click the "Next" button.We will select the "Standard" installation and click "Next", which will select the common options, like where to install the files to.The next screen will show you where the files are going to be installed to and gives you the option to set it as the default web browser. Deselect if you want another web browser to be default. Then click "Install".Once the programme has been installed a screen pops up telling you the install is complete and gives you the option to launch Firefox now, Deselect if you don't want it to launch now. Then click "Finish".To make sure that Firefox has installed correctly click on the Windows star button on the bottom left hand side. And look inside All Programs for "Mozilla Firefox" click on it and if the install was successful the software will start up.

Uninstalling programs that you have installed can be done via the Control Panel. To access the control panel click on the windows start button and select "Control Panel" once the control panel has popped up click on "Uninstall a program" the next screen that appears will give you a list of all the programs install. Double click on the program you want to uninstall and follow the onscreen instructions.

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