good tips for Firefox which can increase your Firefox performance greatly. I would like to share the current up-to-date information to readers:

How to speed up the rendering of a page?

Add the following perference, firefox will render the page immediately:

Ctrl-L to go to the URL entry
Type about:config to open the configuration editor
Right click -> New -> Integer
Type nglayout.initialpaint.delay as the perference name
Type 0 as the value
How to increase the page loading performance?

You can try to enable pipelining. It is still an experimental feature, so it may not be supported by some web servers.

Ctrl-L to go to the URL entry
Type about:config to open the configuration editor
Right click -> New -> Boolean -> type network.http.pipelining, select true
Right click -> New -> Boolean -> type network.http.proxy.pipelining, select true
Right click -> New -> Integer -> type network.http.pipelining.maxrequests, type 8
How can I speed up the Firefox startup time in Windows XP?

This is more like a general tips for Windows XP but here it is. You can turn on the prefetcher that available in Windows XP.

Right click on Firefox icon and press properties
Type /Prefetch:1 at the end of command in target field.
For instance “C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\firefox.exe” /Prefetch:1 (Make sure you have space in between firefox.exe” and /Prefetch:1)
Press OK to save

We all love Firefox extensions. I love these 50 best firefox extensions. How many firefox extensions can you install to power up your browser? Maybe unlimited. The first to attempt this was Splasho who decided to install 100 most popular extensions at the same time, nicknamed the Superbrowser, it worked smooth enough.

Now CyberNet went through the top Firefox extension page until he installed 200 firefox extensions.

“It took 6-minutes to start Firefox with the 200 extensions installed but it worked! Not only that but there are the popup windows that you get for certain extensions right after they are installed…yeah…I received 47 of those. That also seemed to delay the initial start time but I didn’t sit there filling out information for all of the options, otherwise that would have taken me hours.

It was quite a site to see and there was a very limited viewing area for websites because of the toolbars. On my 24″ widescreen monitor I had about 2″ of viewable area at the bottom of the browser. But hey, it was still usable.”

Each extension makes your browser more usable, and there are hundreds of them. But you should install only those that “suits your need”. I am sure right now someone out there is thinking of Firefox with 300 extensions or more!