Make firefox faster.

[Killer360]

My friend, Nodda4me told me this trick on AIM and it works extremely well...

Instructions:

There should be a firefox shortcut on your desktop, right click on it and select properties.

In the target field, erase what is there, and put this in:

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C:\WINDOWS\system32\cmd.exe /c start "Firefox" /high "C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\firefox.exe"  /prefetch:1

The computer's CPU must be 900mhz or greater.

There you go!

[Eric]

FireFox has web page prefetching enabled by default (which some consider a security risk).

Setting the process as high priority is an obvious performance tip, but will only provide minimal difference in the time it takes pages to load and could wreak havoc on your computer's performance if a webpage contained media.

[Killer360]

FireFox has web page prefetching enabled by default (which some consider a security risk).

Setting the process as high priority is an obvious performance tip, but will only provide minimal difference in the time it takes pages to load and could wreak havoc on your computer's performance if a webpage contained media.

I've already tried it on YouTube, if you consider that media. I haven't noticed any lag.

[iago]

Yeah, I just checked in about:config and prefetch is on by default. 

I'm not sure how much difference setting Firefox's priority to High would make. But like Lord said, it can cause other problems.  The first thing that comes to mind is that, if Firefox crashes, or some JavaScript tries to tie up your CPU, it'll hurt a lot worse.