Pimp making Firefox as fast as Chrome article

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network.http.pipelining = True
network.http.pipelining.max-optimistic-requests = 8
network.http.pipelining.maxrequests = 64
network.http.max-persistent-connections-per-proxy = 64
network.http.max-persistent-connections-per-server = 8
network.dns.disableIPv6 = true

Use preload

Intending to save overuse of any SSDs, probably a bit out of date by now though :

browser.cache.disk.enable false
browser.cache.memory.max_entry_size 51200

browser.pagethumbnails.capturing_disabled with a value of true prevents thumbnails from appearing on the New Tab page grid and from being saved in ~/.cache/mozilla/firefox/profile_name/thumbnails.

This setting doesn't exist by default and is to be created.

Reference: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/...uring_disabled 

More config information: http://kb.mozillazine.org/Firefox_:_FAQs_:_About%3Aconfig_Entries

More reference links:

• http://askubuntu.com/questions/459271/mozilla-firefox-terribly-slow-on-ubuntu-14-04