[klug] Speeding up Firefox

[dadstheword777 at ihug.co.nz]

hey,
      My dial up is so snappy its stupid with any browser.
just get an old 486 or something then up the ram a little
and run smoothwall with proxy enabled add the proxy amount
to around 800MB - 1GB any more and it starts stumbling over itself
then I use an ISP proxy also through ihug port 8080 and my dial-up
runs at either 30-60kbs or it is instant.
works so well it well worth it.

Ben
:-)

> 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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