Firefox is cool, and it can be tweaked to load broadband pages extra fast. Here's how.

Steps.

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:
Set "network.http.pipelining" to "true"
Set "network.http.proxy.pipelining" to "true"
Set "network.http.pipelining.maxrequests" to 8. This means it will make 8 requests at once. There is no point setting it higher then 8 as it is capped at 8 max. [The default value for this setting is 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!

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Another treak or two!

Now, this is by no means a REAL fix for the Firefox memory leak, but it certainly does appear to help it quite a bit. This little fix will move Firefox to your hard drive when you minimize it, and as a result it will take up less than 10MB of memory while minimized. So far, from my experiences with using this today, when you maximize Firefox it will obviously increase the memory usage. However, it does not seem to go back up to the insane amount that it was at before minimizing it. For example, Firefox was at 180MB of memory usage and then I minimized it and after a few seconds I maximized it. After maximizing it and continuing on my routine business it appeared to only have gone up to 60MB. This seems to be a good solution for me right now since I frequently maximize and minimize Firefox anyways.

Now I know many people will say that Firefox will take longer to maximize since it will be located on the hard drive, but I haven’t noticed ANY delays. It is able to redraw itself just as quickly as if it was located in the ram (in my experience). Okay, now here are the few simple steps:

1. Open Firefox and go to the Address Bar. Type in about:config and then press Enter.
2. Right Click in the page and select New -> Boolean.
3. In the box that pops up enter config.trim_on_minimize. Press Enter.
4. Now select True and then press Enter.
5. Restart Firefox.

See how quick and painless that was? At any rate you can always go back and delete the same setting that you just created if you start to experience any issues. I have also set the browser.sessionhistory.max_total_viewers value to 0 because that will prevent Firefox from caching pages for the back button. This is also supposed to free up some memory that gets stolen.

Update:
Martin has informed me that this fix also works for Thunderbird. I am not a Thunderbird user so I didn’t realize this. After thinking about it I realized it “should” also work for Netscape, Mozilla, and SeaMonkey. Also, this fix is only for Windows machines (sorry Mac users).

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Speeding Up Internet - Registry Tweak
Mm.. This apply for broadband users and Windows XP Pro

This is a registry tweak for boosting up your connection speed.

Tweak 1

1. Go to Start, click run, type regedit and click ok

2. Go to HKEY_CURRENT_USERSoftwareMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVe rsionInternetSettings
If there is MaxConnectionsPerServer and MaxConnectionsPer1_0Server DWORD values, then skip to step 4.

3. Create two new DWORD values by clicking Edit > New > DWORD-value. Rename the New Value #1 and New Value #2 into MaxConnectionsPerServer and MaxConnectionsPer1_0Server.


4. Double click each of the 2 keys and change the value to 32.
If you did this correctly, restart your computer and internet pages will load much faster.
*Im not responsible for any damage happened. I tested this worked fine for me. So if you get an error, its you, not this tweak.*






Tweak 2

For some reason is Windows XP keeping 20% of your connection for itself. A shame, because no one is waiting for a download limitation. For sure if you got a fast connection. However, Im going to explain how to remove that limit.

Please make sure that you are logged in as Administrator.

1. Go to Start and click run.


2. Type gpedit.msc and click OK.

3. Double click Computer configuration -> Administrative Templates -> Network -> Qos Packet scheduler.


4. Now, open (by double clicking) Limit reservable bandwidth.

5. A new window will open and select Enabled and set Bandwidth limit (%): to 0.


6. Press Apply and OK.

Now, to be sure, restart your computer. Your connection will be faster, for sure when you are downloading stuff