Re: Firefox users - please note....

["Paul Robinson" <ukcueman@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

that's MUCH faster! Thanks!

----- Original Message -----
From: "mark_harrison_uk2" <mph@xxxxxxx>
To: <ukha_d@xxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, January 08, 2005 10:04 PM
Subject: [ukha_d] Firefox users - please note....


>
>
> Guys,
>
> I hope that I haven't missed this being posted, but....
>
> I know that quite a lot of UKHA_D people use Firefox instead of
> Internet Explorer. You can dramatically speed up "browsing
rendering"
> speed by turning on request pipelining by doing as follows.
>
> This will not effect downloading of large files in the slightest. What
> it will do is change how fast a typical "rich web page" - ie
a page
> made up of 20-50 images / bits of text loads and renders by loading
> the images in parallel rather than one at a time.
>
> In my experience today, it has made pages load much, much faster!
>
> Note that there appears to be some discussion in Internet circles as
> to whether this will start to cause server problems. I've not noticed
> any problems, but time will tell.
>
>
> 1. Type "about:config" into the address bar (no spaces) 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 at a time to a Web page.
> When you enable pipelining, the browser 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 tells the browser to 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 acting on received
> information.
>
> Regards,
>
> Mark