Solve : speedup firefox load time?

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Answer» it takes up to 30 seconds for firefox to come after i click the desktop icon; how can this time be reduced?Uninstall or disable some of the add-ins.any suggestions as to which ones use the most resources?First of all, I have no idea what you have INSTALLED. Second, just use TRIAL and error. Start by disabling them all and then you can add them back one at a time and see what happens.Quote from: hchalek on May 23, 2010, 12:40:48 PM it takes up to 30 seconds for firefox to come after i click the desktop icon; how can this time be reduced? Task Manager and/or msconfig should reveal any cpu hogs. Right click an open spot on task bar and choose tsakmanager Start, run [ msconfig ] should reveal unecessary programs at startup time Use IE8 Buy more RAM Buy a faster CPUi'm 79 years young and learned from you both; THANKS. i disabled 3 of what i felt were marginal add-ins, exited, re-entered firefox, and the time was considerably less. thanx again for the guidance.Sure thing.Follow the given steps to speed up firefox: 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. 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 recieves.

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it takes up to 30 seconds for firefox to come after i click the desktop icon; how can this time be reduced?Uninstall or disable some of the add-ins.any suggestions as to which ones use the most resources?First of all, I have no idea what you have INSTALLED. Second, just use TRIAL and error. Start by disabling them all and then you can add them back one at a time and see what happens.Quote from: hchalek on May 23, 2010, 12:40:48 PM

it takes up to 30 seconds for firefox to come after i click the desktop icon; how can this time be reduced?

Task Manager and/or msconfig should reveal any cpu hogs.

Right click an open spot on task bar and choose tsakmanager

Start, run [ msconfig ] should reveal unecessary programs at startup time

Use IE8

Buy more RAM

Buy a faster CPUi'm 79 years young and learned from you both; THANKS.

i disabled 3 of what i felt were marginal add-ins, exited, re-entered firefox, and the time was considerably less. thanx again for the guidance.Sure thing.Follow the given steps to speed up firefox:
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. 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 recieves.

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