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Speed up Page Rendering in Firefox

This tutorial is going to show you how to speed up page rendering in Mozilla Firefox because the default setting makes Firefox wait 250 milliseconds before it starts to render (draw) the page.

This tweak will make it so Firefox starts to render the page straight away, making the page load faster ( or look as if its loading faster). However as always with these about:config tweaks this will not work for some people and a Backup should be done before doing the tutorial so you can revert if necessary. The adverse affects that could be caused by this tutorial are longer page loading time more so if your computer is older.



Step One

Open up Firefox by using one of the methods below:
Double Click the 'Firefox Icon' on the desktop
Or
Hold down the 'windows key' and Press 'R' then type in Firefox and Press 'Enter'.

Firefox desktop Icon Run Command Window

Step Two

Now type about:config into the Address bar and Press 'Enter'.

Firefox Address Bar

Step Three

Right click in the window, select 'New' then Click 'Integer'

Right Clicking

New Integer

Step Four

In the 'New Integer Value' box type nglayout.initialpaint.delay
then Click OK

New Integer

value nglayout.initialpaint.delay

Step Five

In the 'Enter Integer Value' box type 0 (Zero) as seen below
then Click OK

nglayout.initialpaint.delay value Zero

Step Six

In the Filter bar type nglayout.initialpaint.delay

Filter bar

displaying nglayout.initialpaint.delay

Step Seven

Confirm the Value is set to 0 (Zero) as below.

Confirm Value

Zero

Step Eight

Close Firefox

Firefox Close

Button

That's it!

The next time you start Firefox you pages should start to load as soon as you reach a site there for slightly faster, if this tweak causes your pages to load slower then revert to your backup.



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