I thought that some people might be intersted in this post, made by Kefka on the Discworld MUD message boards:
Yo! Stumbled on a few settings that make firefox speed along on a broadband connection... worth sharing!
1. Type "about:config" into the address bar and hit enter.
Scroll down and look for...
network.http.pipelining
network.http.proxy.pipelining
network.http.pipelining.maxrequests
Set "network.http.pipelining" to "true"
Set "network.http.proxy.pipelining" to "true"
Set "network.http.pipelining.maxrequests" to some number like 30.
(right click on the line and choose toggle, or just double click on the line)
2. Right-click anywhere on the page and select New > Integer.
Call it "nglayout.initialpaint.delay" and set the value to "0".
Thats it
Enabling pipelining allows Firefox to process multiple webpage requests at a time - not a problem on broadband, and setting the paint delay to 0 makes it so the browser starts rendering the page asap (this speeds up dialup browsing a tad).
Enjoy!
Kefka
source: http://www.linuxfoo.org/viewtopic.php?p=5095#5095This works in Firefox on all platforms, and in Mozilla too, I've heard (and probably Netscape as well). In Camino you'd edit (home)/Library/Application Support/Camino/prefs.js, or use 'Camino ExtraPrefs'.
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