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title: "Make IE and FireFox go faster than ever"
url: "https://osherove.com/blog/2006/7/12/make-ie-and-firefox-go-faster-than-ever.md"
canonical: "https://osherove.com/blog/2006/7/12/make-ie-and-firefox-go-faster-than-ever.html"
published: "2006-07-12T15:25:00"
updated: "2006-07-12T15:25:00"
tags: ["General Software Devel..."]
author: "Roy Osherove"
description: "FireFox is cool - but it's *very* slow. So is IE. There are ways to make both of them run faster, fortunately. If you want to make IE go faster - Go here . If you want to make FireFox go faster, follow these steps: Type…"
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# Make IE and FireFox go faster than ever

By Roy Osherove July 12, 2006 In [General Software Devel...](https://osherove.com/blog/category/general-software-devel)

**Historical article** · Originally published July 12, 2006; technical details may be outdated.

FireFox is cool - but it's \*very\* slow. So is IE.

There are ways to make both of them run faster, fortunately.

- If you want to make IE go faster - [Go here](http://www.regxplor.com/tweak11.html).

If you want to make FireFox go faster, follow these steps:

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.

Alter the entries as follows: 

1.   Set "network.http.pipelining" to "true"
2.   Set "network.http.proxy.pipelining" to "true"
3.   Set "network.http.pipelining.maxrequests" to some number like 30.
     
     This means it will make 30 requests at once.
    .
4.   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!

\[found [here with terrible formatting](http://forevergeek.com/open_source/make_firefox_faster.php), so I reqrote it more clearly)

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## About the author

**Roy Osherove**: Senior Solutions Architect at AWS working on AI for production and AI-driven development; author of The Art of Unit Testing and Elastic Leadership, with about 20 years of consulting and training on unit testing, TDD, team leadership and continuous delivery.

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