IE or Firefox???

[thebobman]

on my brand spanking fresh install of Windows XP Firefox was slower than XP, frequently failed to run javascripts and embedded content and crashed no less than 4 times in one evening. I got a shell extension to do tabbed surfing in IE and uninstalled it. I'll be back when they tweak the interface and fix some bugs

[sNyx]

someone posted some great firebox tweaks awhile back in the lounge, anyone dig em up for me?

[Gusto]

Originally Posted by sNyx™

someone posted some great firebox tweaks awhile back in the lounge, anyone dig em up for me?

Here is one of them:

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Speed Up Firefox (really works, broadband only)

1. Type "about:config" into the address bar and hit return. 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 recieves.

If you're using a broadband connection you'll load pages 2-3 times faster now.

[sNyx]

^^ good tips !!

[Rytalin]

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 recieves.

If you're using a broadband connection you'll load pages 2-3 times faster now.

I gotta wonder why they even bother putting a delay into something like a web browser.

[DJDeeb]

I've been using Firefox for a while now. I love it.

I find though that some site are just designed so poorly ( Frontpage ) that they just don't render well in Firefox forcing me to go back to IE6.

[Goodfellow]

Originally Posted by sNyx™

you > l337

.... ? is that supposed to be an insult, je ne comprend pas

[Cdn_Brdr]

Originally Posted by gusto

Speed Up Firefox (really works, broadband only)
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If you're using a broadband connection you'll load pages 2-3 times faster now.

I did that but to be honest I didn't notice THAT much of an increase.... then again maybe it's just because Firefox is so much faster than IE to begin with that I just don't even pay attention.

[Leviathan]

I've been digging firefox since it was called firebird

[ebbomega]

Hah. I've been a proud FF user since Phoenix, biatch!