Firefox Speed Up Script is a script for Greasemonkey that combines several tweaks to Firefox core configuration settings with site specific optimizations and various other improvements including blocking of known advertising scripts. The Greasemonkey extension for the Firefox web browser is required to use the Speed Up Script which will automatically become active after installation. This is actually one of the biggest strengths of this solution as it does not require the user to edit the Firefox configuration manually. Cautious users are advised to look at the source code of the script before they install it to get detailed information about the changes that are applied to it.
The biggest improvements are noticeable on websites that have been added by the developer of the script. Sites like the BBC, Youtube, Digg, MSN, IDMB, Lifehacker, Gizmodo or Mashable are all included in that list and should load faster than before for most users who apply the script to their computer system.
The only problem that some users could run into is that optimized sites can only be removed from the script by editing the source code. Advanced users on the other hand can use this to add new sites to the script.
FireFox Speed Up Script can be downloaded directly from the Userscripts website.
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I’m sorry but, I cannot trust a script that sets network.http.max-connections to 500 … stupid.
Gotta say this script sped up Firefox quite a lot. I edited it just a bit though, removing some features I didn’t want or some settings that didn’t quite look right. But other then that, an amazing script!
The FF settings modified may help increase general browser speed for most high bandwidth users. The network.http.max-connections to 500 is overkill but unlikely to have any negative effects. I went through the rest of the settings (I did NOT review the ad removal or site specific stuff) and they are harmless to helpful. One strange one is: Network.http.pipelining.maxrequests
He sets this to 500. According to Mozilla max setting is 8. Probably just a small goof on his part but if you run the script you might want to modify that one line.
reference: http://kb.mozillazine.org/Network.http.pipelining.maxrequests
Regards
Joe
Thanks script .
The Article & website is in English, do you really guys have to comment in another language ?
Hello.
Please teach a little.
Which is applied by priority if this script is installed in the environment to which these settings have already been done with about:config of Firefox?
After rewriting this script according to my own preferences and even thinking of posting it for use. I have found that this script dosen’t even work!
Greasemonkey scripts can not change about:config settings in any way, except for the greasemonkey specific ones.
This script does not work, and i am very disappointed in ghacks for posting this