I haven’t posted for a while but thought I would post a ‘How-To’ on how to increase your browsing speed when using Firefox thanks to ‘Pipelining‘. An HTTP pipelining enabled web browser uses server keepalive signals to create an open socket so that it can receive an uninterrupted stream of packets. Without pipelining, the browser must communicate back and forth with the server to determine whether the last item was received successfully and uses more TCP packets to do so.

To enable pipelining in Firefox is easy:

1. Type ‘about:config’ in the URL bar
2. In the search box type ‘pip’,  ‘network.http.pipelining’ should appear in the list.
3. Hold shift and click on it until it’s value reads ‘true’

Job done! Enjoy the increased speed

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