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[Guest NickInTheNorth]

get it here http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/

 

and it's grrrrrrrreat!

 

But just to make it even faster than IE (which it is already) try the following tweaks:

 

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

 

enjoy!

[Chris Goddard]

  NickInTheNorth said:

get it here http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/

 

and it's grrrrrrrreat!

 

But just to make it even faster than IE (which it is already) try the following tweaks:

 

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

 

enjoy!

 

Thanks Nick! not ONLY am I getting an even better browser BUT I have also got back my ENGLISH dictionary I have had to do without for so long!!

 

P.S. How's Jill? Well by now I hope.

[peter mccue]

Chaps, this is going to sound really bad, but I have entered "about:config" in every sodding dialog box I can find to no avail

 

Where is the address/location bar you're talking about!.....I know I know what a plonker.

[jeepster]

the main bar where you type urls..........

 

by the way, don't use the quote marks!

[peter mccue]

  jeepster said:

the main bar where you type urls..........

 

by the way, don't use the quote marks!

 

Cheers Jeeps, it was the quotation marks that was causing the problem. I've left them out & am now flying round the web at a rate of knots feeling like a whizz kid again

 

Blimey its a good job you lot are here, or else god knows what I'd muck up

 

Nice one Nick

[jeepster]

I'm surfing so fast I'm getting out of breath

[peterpikefisher]

hi good browser except a i cant get my download manager to work with it

i am using download accelerator plus. any ideas

[wanzelbin]

Excellent stuff. I've finally come over to Firefox properly as I really don't like IE7.

 

As the default in firefox is to make single requests, is there any downside to this amendment?

 

 

Thanks

 

David

[Si...]

  pumphypete said:

hi good browser except a i cant get my download manager to work with it

i am using download accelerator plus. any ideas

 

You do realise that DAP contains spyware in both the free and paid versions.

 

Flashget is miles better and no spyware

[Lid]

Well I upgraded from Firefox 1.5 to 2.0 and have had a couple of annoying problems, so I am back on IE for now.

 

1) Where is the fabled new spell checker in v 2.0? I couldn't find it anywhere. It doesn't even seem to appear in the help.

 

2) When I click on links, in Anglers Net for example, they no longer automatically open a new page. They do in IE and in Firefox 1.5.

 

So can anyone help please with these two issues I have encountered so far?