Monday, July 25, 2005

Firefox Speed Tweaks

I got this email from my brother:

Here's something for broadband people that will really speed Firefox up:

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.

1.Type "about:config" into the address bar and hit return. Scroll down and look for the following entries and alter them 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.

2. 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 receives.

If you're using a broadband connection you'll load pages MUCH faster now!

Ben says: I tried it and it works! Wow! Why don't they just ship Firefox this way?

Thursday, July 07, 2005

Circumcision may offer Africa AIDS hope / Procedure linked to much lower rate of new HIV infections

I guess God knew what he was talking about:
Circumcision may offer Africa AIDS hope / Procedure linked to much lower rate of new HIV infections

Tuesday, July 05, 2005

Video gamers may have quicker eyes - Yahoo! News

Video gamers may have quicker eyes - Yahoo! News

Three studies suggest TV hampers kids' academic skills - Yahoo! News

Three studies suggest TV hampers kids' academic skills - Yahoo! News