2009年2月9日星期一

How to Increase the Speed of Firefox & Internet Explorer

Not everyone thinks or dreams about a faster browser, however a majority of individuals don't like to wait for something they could have now, therefore when it comes to the Internet PC users would like to see some sort of efficiency out of their browser as they surf the Internet for work, school, or whichever other reason. Unlike Internet Explorer Firefox has been designed to take on fast speeds and customized optimizations; however both of these browsers can be tweaked to increase their speeds. Within this article I'm going to show you how to amplify your browsers speed in four easy steps so you can take charge of how fast you want your browser to load.

Because at times a fast PC and a quick Internet connection isn't enough to jumpstart quick browsing, this is why we've put together these steps, in order to aid you in bringing fearsome speed and effectiveness to your feud with sluggish Internet surfing.

Configuring Firefox
(1) First thing you have to do is open Firefox and type about:config in the address bar, then press enter. Next you'll see a list of configurations pop up.

(2) In the filter line under the address bar type in network.http.pipelining and double click on it to set its value to True. What this does is it increases the "pipeline" Ram ability of Firefox allowing the browser to accept more packet transfers.

(3) Now in the filter bar type in network.http.pipelining.maxrequests double click on it and set the value from 4 to 10. This increases the maximum amount of packet requests to 10.

(4) Next use the right click option to create a new string, name it nglayout.initialpaint.delayand set its value to 0. By creating this string you're signaling the browser that there will be no delay when first displaying the page. Usually you since the value by default is 250 you have to wait 250 milliseconds before you can view any page within the time that you've first opened it.

Now you're ready to enjoy Firefox's fast speed. There is no need to save anything, all you have to do is close Firefox and restart it. You should be able to see an immediate increase in file transfer speed from additional 10 to 40 percent.

Internet Explorer
(1) In order to increase the speed of Internet Explorer there a couple steps you need to follow. The first step involves accessing the start menu and clicking on Run. Type in regedit and click OK.

(2) This will take you to the Windows Registry Editor. Once the editor window pops up navigate to HKEY_CURRENT_USER and click on it.

(3) Next scroll down to Software, click on Microsoft then Windows, CurrentVersion, and then navigate to Internet Settings and place your mouse over that selection. It should be followed in this order: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings

(4) Scroll down to locate these two values: MaxConnectionsPerServer and MaxConnectionsPer1_0Server. Why these two lines? Because MaxConnections values (similar to its name) control the maximum allowed connections between your browser and the server. For instance if the value is 6 then this means that there are 6 parallel connections to a server within a browser window. Configuring these values will increase the amount of connections allowed to a server and in return you're able to browse faster since your connection won't become clogged. Once you find these two lines right-click on the first line and choose Modify then click Decimal and set the Value to 6.

If for some reason these two values aren't present then you can right-click on the white (blank) area of the Regedit window choose New and then click DWORD Value.

Now enter MaxConnectionsPerServer as the values name, choose Decimal, and change the value to 6. Repeat this same exact step for MaxConnectionsPer1_0Server.

The final steps involve closing Regedit and testing your new Internet explorer connection. Here's a video that will help you visualize all these steps.

Conclusion
Surfing speeds may vary due to the way you utilize your Internet, however there are times that slothful speeds are due to misinformation. Many have been mislead about how to speed up their browsing, and they never fully unlock the true potential of their browsers. The main message within this article is to help you use these 4 steps to unlock a portion of your browsers potential.

Please feel free to leave us a comment telling BrotherSoft how these steps worked for you.

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