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Google announced the release of Public DNS Resolver called Google Public DNS, as part of its effort to make the web faster. (What is DNS? Read this) DNS or also known as Domain Name Service is an important service to allow Internet surfers reach a web site. Without it I don’t think we can access to web site worldwide so easy.

Why You Should Try Google Public DNS?

Web browsing speed depends much on DNS respond time. A complex web page may require multiple DNS lookups before they start loading. Faster DNS respond load your website fast too.

The Public DNS service come with 2 main features:

• Speed up Web browsing experience
• Improve Security

Google make your Internet run faster by enhanced the DNS resolver with better Caching, Load Balancing, and Server Clustering. For security part, it rejects responses that do not meet required criteria. Did I mentioned it is FREE? Yes, FREE for who want to speed up their Internet and better security. (more…)

I’ve installed some add-on to my Firefox. Sometime it run slower than it should be. Did some searches and found I could double the Internet browsing speed by just few simple tweaks.

3 Steps to Double Internet Speed

I found that Firefox tends to eat a lot of RAM in exchange for quicker launching and handling of the browser.

2 our of 3 steps are to reduce Firefox RAM consumption. Let’s do it with extra careful or your Firefox might not work.

1. Reduce RAM for Firefox Cache feature

In Firefox address bar, try this,

1) Type “about:config” (no quotes) and hit ENTER in the Firefox browser address bar
2) Find “browser.sessionhistory.max_total_viewers”
3) Set it’s value to “0“ (Zero)

2. Increase Page Loading Speed

1) Type “about:config” into the address bar

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 10.

3) Right-click anywhere and select New->Integer.

Add name “nglayout.initialpaint.delay” with value to “0“ (Zero)

Optional: Add new field below for even faster web browsing,

New String - “network.dns.disableIPv6”: set “false”
New Integer – “content.notify.backoffcount”: set “5” (Five)
New Integer - “ui.submenuDelay”: set “0” (Zero) (more…)