How to speed up Firefox by enabling HTTP Pipelining

HTTP Pipelining is a user configable peference within Firefox that you can change to increase the speed that pages load. Pipelining is only supported in HTTP/1.1, not in 1.0. although a lot of people think that enabling Pipelining will put a strain on servers, this is wrong because HTTP pipelining allows fewer TCP packets to be sent over the network, therefor reducing network load. Does not increase speed when on secure web pages e.g HTTPS. if you wish to read more on HTTP Pipelining before you tackle this tutorial then here are two links for you to follow.
Webopedia - Pipelining
Wikipedia - HTTP Pipelining

Note: Before taking on this tutorial please make sure you backup your Firefox, backup your Firefox,
because this tweak works for some and not for others and in some cases can even slow Firefox down. If you have backed up Firefox tho you have nothing to worry about, Also this tweak is said not to improve speed on dial up connections although some have reported it to work so its entirely your choice.

Step One

OK, lets start by opening up Firefox
Double Click the 'Firefox Icon' on the desktop
or
Hold down the 'windows key' and Press 'R' then type in Firefox and Press 'Enter'.

Step Two

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

Step Three

Use the Filter bar to look for
network.http.pipelining
as seen in the image below.

Step Four

Double click on 'Network.http.pipelining' to change value to 'True'.

Step Five

Now Double Click on the preference below, which is 'network.http.pipelining.maxrequests'
You will be displayed with a dialog box with the value of 4, change the value to 8
Click 'OK'

Step Six

Just to confirm, both your values should be the same as you see in the image below.

Step Seven

Use the filter bar again to find 'network.http.proxy.pipelining'

Step Eight

Once again Double Click 'network.http.proxy.pipelining' to change the value to true.

network.http.proxy.pipelining with a Value of True

Step Nine

Restart Firefox.

Done!

Now your web pages should load faster, as I said before if you have any problems with this tweak just restore Firefox with your backup. Just to let you know though, its working like a charm for me.

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