How to Speed up Firefox page loading

Hi all!
(using Mozilla Firefox), I used an IP hider program thinking it was free of charge, it turned out not to be of course, so I deleted it. Well now Firefox keeps starting up looking for a proxy address. I've set it to direct connection several times and upon shutting down Firefox and starting back up it looks for the proxy again. Any ideas on how to tell Firefox to not look for a proxy server without having to go into options every time?
Thanks!

 

hey geestar, just got to my comp with the problem and i installed version 1.5 and im still having those same problems.

 

Thanks for these great tips! It is really much faster now.

 

geestar.............you are a genius.

This is the best thing that has happened to my computer in a long time.

Much thanks!

Regards,

Stitch

 

This is kinda stupid, but what the hell..

How would I know what version I have? and is 1.5 the latest?

thanks

 

nice

 

I uploaded Firetune, so here is one more place you can download Firetune:
http://www.file-wire.net/?pdl=ndbnS6r2kxpm

 

G-star I've got a question:Why would they not make FireFox like that in the first place.

"like that" is referring to the acceleration technique you used.

 

@-bunny_c-

Everything has a custom setting and of course everyhting has default settings (and firefox is set to default when you grab it). This is an open source proggy so anyone can make their own custom plugin tweak and so on.

If this is not the answer you are looking for (referring to the acceleration technique WE ALL used.)I will go more in depth if need be.

See ya soon -bunny_c-

 

thank's for reply.

and yes that was the answer i was looking for.

thank's

 

ok i found out how to load the pages even faster

browser.tabs.showSingleWindowModePrefs – true
network.http.max-connections – 48
network.http.max-connections-per-server – 16
network.http.max-persistent-connections-per-proxy – 8
network.http.max-persistent-connections-per-server – 4
network.http.pipelining – true
network.http.pipelining.maxrequests – 100
network.http.proxy.pipelining – true
network.http.request.timeout – 300
NEW -> Integer. Name it “nglayout.initialpaint.delay” and set its value to “0”.
watch the difference now

 

VERY PHUQING NICE -gronimo18- !!

as I was testing this I noticed that my pages were cached so that was making the pages load very quick so I then cleared all my private data (which contained all the cached pages) and tried to test again and I didn't notice any lagg with or without cached so that was very nice.

I couldn't find "browser.tabs.showSingleWindowModePrefs" so didn't test and as with "network.http.pipelining.maxrequests" and "network.http.request.timeout" I left it as I have.

Very Very good job again -gronimo18-!

I will do some further testing to check for stability.

 

no problem ya all welcome

 

I am having the same problems with v1.5

 

What problem are you having?

 

Me too! When Am trying to save an image from a web, it kinda freezes for a while and then goes back again to normal.

Its not like this before.

I did what was said above.

Just saving of the pictures is the only problem.

 

it's a little late, but if i have dsl will it work?

 

how much faster does this make firefox?

 

Fasterfox is why my company just banned Firefox users from our website. Fasterfox' developer either doesn't realize or doesn't care that bandwidth ain't free.

 

NICE!=D