Once you have start firefox, type in the address field the following string...
about:config
this allows you to access the configuration parameters.
Here are the changes of some parameters that can speed up the browser...
Firefox normally performs a pause of 250 milliseconds before you start designing the page, you can change this value to 0 by setting the following parameter:
nglayout.initialpaint.delay integer 0
if you're using Firefox on Microsoft Windows, the following parameter can be useful:
browser.turbo.enabled boolean true
allows you to preload a portion of the browser at OS statup, Linux on this parameter has no effect.
Instead, the following parameters:
network.http.pipelining boolean true network.http.pipelining.maxrequests integer 12
allow respectively downloading of the number of objects (html, script, css, images, etc...) from maxrequest established through the same connection.
Learn more: About:config entries - MozillaZine Knowledge Base.
ATTENZIONE: these settings can be fine for fast connections type Adsl, if encountered problems in loading pages, just click the right button on the parameters changed and choose Reset to restore the parameter to default value.
