[klug] Speeding up Firefox

[peterd]

Oh, Don't type in those little star things  ...I hate it when what you 
get back is not what you send =-O


peterd wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I found this little 'gem' on the net while looking for something else.
>
> On dial-up I would estimate the time to load a page in Firefox has 
> decreased by a good 50%   ...haven't tried broadband as yet.
>
> *PROCEDURE*
> ---------------
> The Firefox Web browser is quickly becoming one of the most prominent 
> Web browsers available. The fact that it is cross-platform makes it a 
> comfortable browser for users who have to use more than one OS. There 
> are, however, a number of hidden "gems" that you can enable that make 
> Firefox even more powerful than it is "out of the box."
>
> To increase the speed of opening Web pages, there are two options you 
> can tweak. The first is to enable HTTP pipelining, which allows 
> Firefox to request multiple files simultaneously rather than one at a 
> time. To enable this, type *about:config* in the address bar. Scroll 
> down the list until you find *network.http.pipelining* and set it to 
> *true*. You can also enable *network.http.proxy.pipelining* as well 
> (set to *true*).
>
> To speed up rendering speeds, you can tell Firefox not to wait the 
> default quarter second before drawing Web content. The option to look 
> for here is the nglayout.initialpaint.delay, but it may not be 
> displayed in the preference list by default. If not, right-click on 
> the screen and select New | Integer. Type*  
> nglayout.initialpaint.delay * as the preference name and the number* 0 
> *as the value. By default, Firefox uses a value of 250 (milliseconds).
>
> Finally, the last gem is not a preference modification but an 
> invaluable extension that is extremely useful for anyone doing Web 
> development. In Firefox, click Tools | Extensions and a new box will 
> open. Click on Get More Extensions. In the new page that opens, click 
> on Developer Tools under the All Extensions sidebar. Jump to the last 
> page and install the Web Developer extension. Once the extension is 
> installed, restart Firefox and you'll see a new toolbar with a number 
> of options that include the ability to quickly validate HTML and CSS, 
> view image dimensions, outline tables and table cells, and a lot more.
>
> Peter
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