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I like Firefox overall, but am annoyed by its "Not responding" delays when loading certain pages, and by its locking up when I download something.

Googling for solutions, I am trying various things:

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Advice from Mozilla/Firefox themselves

Check that extensions are causing a problem

Start> Mozilla Firefox> Mozilla Firefox (Safe Mode)

about:config settings

  • browse to "about:config"
  • Set network.http.max-connections higher e.g. to 48
  • Set network.http.max-connections-per-server higher e.g. 24
  • Set network.http.max-persistent-connections-per-proxy higher e.g. 12
  • Set network.http.max-persistent-connections-per-server higher e.g. 6
  • Set network.http.pipelining to “true”
  • Set network.http.pipelining.maxrequests to some number like 30. This means it will make 30 requests at once.
  • Set network.http.proxy.pipelining to “true”
  • Lastly right-click anywhere and select New-> Integer. Name it “nglayout.initialpaint.delay” ( without qoutes ) and set its value to “0”. This value is the amount of time the browser waits before it acts on information it receives

Alternative browsers

If I give up, maybe I'll try some other browsers.

Spellcheck

http://support.mozilla.com/kb/Using+the+spell+checker

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