Speed up FireFox using the about:config configuration tool.

First in the URL bar, Type "about:config". This will bring up a list of commands and variables you can edit.

The second step is to put "network.http.pipelining" in the filter and change the value to "true".

After that you will want to put "network.http.proxy.pipelining" in the filter.

Like the last one, make that value set to "true" also.

The next thing you want to do is locate "network.http.pipelining.maxrequests" and change the value to some number higher, if you were to set it to 10, it would make up to 10 requests at once.

The last step is to right click anywhere and select "New" then "Integer". Name it "nglayout.initialpaint.delay" and make its value "0". This will make the browser respond faster on the information of the websites it receives.

Yet more:

Steve mentioned the slow loading of sites like the New York Times and the Economist.  The pages tend to get hijacked by double-click and other advertisers and ad-brokers. I noticed that I wasn't having that problem anymore and after hacking around with Matt Underbakee we decided that the Firefox extension called adblock-plus combined with a privacy option seems to help load the pages faster.

The trick is to go to the
tools/add on menu and add ad block plus.

Then go to the tools/options/privacy menu and check the accept cookies from sites

and keep until "I close Firefox. 

This seems to have worked for me.

Another problem is the script-time-out message that I sometimes get while waiting for a long script in Firefox to execute.  I was able to fix that by typing about:config as an URL and filtering for dom.max_script_run_time and changing that preference from 10 to 33.

Finally restart Firefox.

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