Tune up Mozilla Firefox for Memory Issues and Performance Efficiency

Introduction

Mozilla Firefox is the best rated browser in the professional world today. But, with the updating/upgrading technology in hardware as well as software, end user faces memory issues, compatibility problems and many other bugs. Software developers try there best in order to fix these bugs and other issues for efficient performance of the software.

Mozilla Firefox has many memory issues which resists performance and CPU efficiency. On 800 MHz Clock Intel Processor and Windows XP as Operating System, Mozilla Process gets into a deadlock situation and hangs Operating System to function normally. Mozilla has set some manual configurations escaping such deadlock situations. Below is a simple tweak to overcome such memory related problems using Mozilla as Internet Browser.

Procedure

• Start Mozilla Firefox Internet Browser.
• Type “about:config” in the address bar.

• In the about:config window, type “network.http.p” in the Filter textbox.

• In the filtered result, find “network.http.pipelining” and set the corresponding value to “true”. Further, “network.http.proxy.pipelining” and set its value to “true”. Lastly, find “network.http.pipelining.maxrequests” to 30 to 40.
• Right Click and add New Integer and type “nglayout.initialpaint.delay” and set the corresponding value to “0”.

• Confirm all settings once again and restart the browser to save all settings.
• You may further experience the effect by opening Windows Task Manager, by right clicking on the Task Bar.

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