Make firefox run faster consuming less memory

These are two very simple yet very effective tricks for firefox 3.

To make firefox consume less memory do the following steps

1. Open Firefox and type about:config in the firefox address bar, press Enter.
2. Search for the following entry browser.cache.memory.enable and see if its true; if not then right click on this entry and set its value to true.
3. Now, Right-click any where on the page and create a new entry by right click >> New >> Integer and name it browser.cache.memory.capacity and enter the value as mentioned below :
   The value has to be according to the size of your RAM memory.
   If you have:
   256 MB of RAM, enter “4096”
   512 MB of RAM, enter “8192”
   1 GB of RAM, enter “16384”
4. Restart Firefox.

To make firefox run faster do the following:

1. Open about:config just like we did above.
2. Search for the following entries
   
   * network.http.pipelining
   * network.http.pipelining.maxrequests
   * network.http.proxy.pipelining
   
3. Right Click the entries and modify to set network.http.pipelining to true, network.http.pipelining.maxrequests to 30 and network.http.proxy.pipelining to true
4. Right-click any where on the page and create a new entry by right click >> New >>Integer and name it nglayout.initialpaint.delay and set the value to 0

   This value is the amount of time the browser waits before it acts on information it receives.

5. Restart Firefox.