Sunday, March 14, 2010

Speed Up Your Browsing

Internet Explorer Instructions:
Step 1 : Click on the "Start" button and select "Run."
Step 2 : Type "Regedit" and press enter. This will take you to the editing program for the Windows Registry
Step 3 : Use the file menu on the left side of the window to find HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings." Left click the "Internet Settings" folder once to highlight it.
Step 4 : In the main window, you may see two items titled "MaxConnectionsPerServer" and "MaxConnectionsPer1_0Server." If they are not listed, you must create them. Do this by right clicking inside the main window, selecting "New" and then "DWORD Value." Name this first value "MaxConnectionsPerServer." Use the same process to create "MaxConnectionsPer1_0Server."
Step 5 : Double click "MaxConnectionsPerServer" and set the value to 14. If you're using a dial-up connection, set it instead to 6.
Step 6 : Repeat this process for "MaxConnectionsPer1_0Server."
Step 7 : Close the registry editor and launch Internet Explorer for the changes to take effect.
 
Mozilla Firefor Instructions:
In the URL bar, type about:config and press enter. This will bring up the configuration menu where you can change the parameters of Firefox.
Double Click on the following settings and put in the numbers below - for the true / false booleans - theyll change when you double click.
Find these one by one and do the changes as mentioned below
browser.tabs.showSingleWindowModePrefs true
network.http.max-connections 48
network.http.max-connections-per-server 16
network.http.max-persistent-connections-per-proxy 8
network.http.max-persistent-connections-per-server 4
network.http.pipelining true
network.http.pipelining.maxrequests 100
network.http.proxy.pipelining true
network.http.request.timeout 300
One more thing Right-click somewhere on that screen and add a NEW -> Integer.
Name it nglayout.initialpaint.delay and set its value to 0.
Now you should notice youre loading pages MUCH faster now!
Opera Instructions: Some ways to increase Opera’s performance and browsing speed :
Delete Private Data : Go to Tools and click on Delete private data.Next click on details and check the all the boxes except Delete cookies and Clear all wand passwords.
Blocking Flash Images: Just right click on the flash image and block it for a particular web page but if you want to permanently switch off the flash view of that web site then go to Tools –> Preferences –>Advanced –> Blocked content
Minimize effect – Go to tools and then Appearance,a dialog box opens.Click on the toolbar tab an uncheck the options which you use rarely.Turn off the progress bar or make it simple.
No icons and favicons – Go to tools –> preference,click on advanced and then browsing.Drop the page icon menu to Show no icon.Click on Ok.Remember every small tweaks helps a lot.
Show web pages faster : Go to tools –> preference and click on advanced tab.Next click on browsing and Drop down the loading menu to Redraw Instantly.This will make Opera to get the web page faster and increases browsing speed.
Uncheck Tooltip option - When you hover on Web pages which contains some links, Opera displays small tooltips that add information about the element. If you do not want to see them then go to Tools,preference and click on Advanced.Go to browsing tab to uncheck Show Tool tips.
Reduce the amount of visited pages in history : Opera keeps a track of last visited pages in the form of History. This history keeps increasing whenever you browser more and more pages.To reduce the history of web pages visited,you can go to Tools –> Preferences –> advanced –>history and reduce the addresses to 100 or 200.
Remove unnecessary plugins: To display all the plugins which are installed in the Opera browser,just go to address bar and type this opera:plugins.To deactivate unnecessary plugin you have to go to your main Opera directory and find plugin-ignore.ini.Open it and place the plugin name which you want to disable.

1 comment:

  1. Nice Tips. It worked for me. My browsing speed increased. Overall it is good.

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