Firefox Speed Tweaks

I got this email from my brother:

Here's something for broadband people that will really speed Firefox up:

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.

1.Type "about:config" into the address bar and hit return. Scroll down and look for the following entries and alter them 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.

2. 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!

Ben says: I tried it and it works! Wow! Why don't they just ship Firefox this way?