For those that use Firefox you might notice it can be rather slow at times.  After a little research I found some common settings that can help fix the speed of how Firefox displays a website and to fix the infamous memory leak the software has.

For those on a broadband connection, in your address bar type in the following “about:config” without quotes.
Once there, filter each of the following below and change each of the settings by double clicking on them:

1) network.dns.disableIPv6 -> true
2) network.http.pipelining -> true
3) network.http.pipelining.maxrequests -> 8
4) network.http.proxy.pipelining -> true

If you would like to attempt to fix the memory leak issue go back to the main area of “about:config” and right click anywhere, select New, then Integer.
In the prompt type in the following “browser.cache.memory.capacity” without quotes. Another prompt should appear and this is where you can allocate how much memory you would like Firefox to use. The more memory you have on your system then the more memory you can allocate to Firefox. Good start would be 16M. If you need more you can always go back and add more. So in the prompt box you need to enter the numeric value in bytes so 16M would be “16384″ without quotes. Click “Ok” and you should be on your way.

For these changes to take affect try first to restart Firefox. If that does not work, I have read that for some they had to restart their computer.

Once these changes are in place you should already see a drastic change in how Firefox handles websites, especially sites that have a heavy load of content like Flash videos and what not.

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