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Message from Steven
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Sindi wrote:
>
> links2 and hv3 loaded instantly.  Firefox took 
> 10 seconds at 1.6GHz from a fast hard disk, and 
> uses 25MB memory (7 processes each of that amount, 
> plus one smaller one).  They all download pages 
> at about the same speed. 

The downloading speed of Firefox can be significantly
increased by activating pipelining and other options.
You do this by editing about:config  

You will find suggestions for speeding up Firefox in
many places.  Here is one:
http://www.tech-faq.com/blog/tipstricks-for-speeding-up-firefox.html

After turning on pipelining (maxrequests 4), turning
off prefetch, and altering a couple of other settings 
not mentioned in the above article, my Firefox is now
nearly twice as fast.

> How does one stop images from downloading or at least 
> displaying with Firefox 1.5?  

Edit > Preferences > Advanced > Content


Cheers,
Steven