Slight Delay When Using Firefox

I've noticed when using firefox there's a few seconds delay when accessing web pages despite the fact that download speed can reach full potential. In other words there's no apperent slow down in connection but the browser seems to need a few seconds before going to a new web page or going back to an old one rather than being instant. Is this to do with the aspire or is there something in the firefox settings I could change to speed it up?

 

check if your ping is high.

press [WINDOWS]+[R]

type in cmd

then type ping www.google.ca or something

Normally, ping should be under 500miliseconds. If the ping is too high, you'll notice lag.

 

I'm running the new FireFox 3.1 beta, and it's much faster due to new java rendering technology. A usual thing is too much in the cache: you can increase size (e.g. 250mb) and clear it out at Tools / Options / Advanced / Network. (I use a free application called CCleaner that clears browser caches along with other useless file removal.)

There are also several basic "about:config" tweaks in FF that are harmless and improve rendering speed (this pasted from a googled result elsewhere):

"Type "about:config" into the address bar and hit return.
1. Scroll down and look for the following entries: network.http.pipelining network.http.proxy.pipelining network.http.pipelining.maxrequests Normally the browser will make one request to a web page at a time. When you enable pipelining it will make several at once, which really speeds up page loading.
2. Alter the entries as follows: Set "network.http.pipelining" to "true" Set "network.http.proxy.pipelining" to "true" Set "network.http.pipelining.maxrequests" to some number like 30. This means it will make 30 requests at once.
3. Lastly right-click anywhere and select New-> Integer. Name it "nglayout.initialpaint.delay" and set its value to "0". This value is the amount of time the browser waits before it acts on information it receives. If you're using a broadband connection you'll load pages MUCH faster now!"

A few others to experiment with (google to confirm what they do):

[new integer] content.notify.interval - 500000
[new boolean] content.notify.ontimer - true
[new integer] content.notify.threshold - 250000
network.http.max-connections - 30 to 96
network.http.max-connections-per-server - 15 to 32
network.http.max-persistent-connections-per-server - 6 to 8
network.http.pipelining.ssl - false to true