Speedup and optimize Firefox

[bbalegere]

Download an optimized copy of firefox from: http://www.moox.ws/tech/mozilla/

Go to http://www.emilsoft.net/products/firetweaker.php and http://www.totalidea.com/freestuff4.htm to find firefox tweaker softwares.

NOTE: THE OPTIMIZED BUILD IS OPTIMAL, YOU CAN STILL DO THIS ON
AN OFFICIAL BUILD OF FIREFOX ASWELL.

The M builds are more optimized for the types of processors listed below:

M1 BUILDS
M1 builds are generally optimized builds that also contain code optimized for the MMX instruction set. M1 builds are targeted for the following processors:

* AMD Athlon
* AMD K6-2
* Intel Pentium 2
* Intel Pentium

Please note that the M1 builds will work on any of the processors specified under the M2 versions and the M3 versions.
M2 BUILDS
M2 builds are highly optimized builds that also contain code optimized for the SSE instruction set. Given the nature M2 builds, they are designed only for processors that support SSE:

* AMD Athlon XP
* AMD Athlon MP
* AMD Sempron (2200+ - 2800+)
* AMD Duron (1.0GHz - 1.8GHz)
* Intel Pentium 3
* Intel Celeron (533MHz - 1.4GHz)

M3 BUILDS
M3 builds are highly optimized builds that also contain code optimized for the SSE2 instruction set. Given the nature of M3 builds, they are designed only for processors that support SSE2:

* AMD Opteron
* AMD Athlon FX
* AMD Athlon 64
* AMD Sempron (3100+)
* Intel Xeon
* Intel Pentium M
* Intel Pentium 4
* Intel Celeron D
* Intel Celeron (1.7GHz - 2.8GHz)

Now for the Tutorial

Open Firefox.
Type "about:config" in the adress bar (no quotation marks).
Find these options, double click each one and change to below values:

network.http.max-connections: 48

network.http.max-connections-per-server: 24

network.http.max-persistent-connections-per-proxy: 12

network.http.max-persistent-connections-per-server: 6

network.http.pipelining: true

network.http.pipelining.maxrequests: 32

network.http.proxy.pipelining: true

browser.turbo.enabled: true

[navjotjsingh]

I do not believe in optimised builds .. its better to tweak the orginial firefox according to one's own convienience! It cam be updated easily when the latest version is released and do not have to wait for the optimised ff to be updated!