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> Message from Steven
> ===================
> 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

Instructions say to double click.
In linux space, Enter worked.  I changed both these settings.
(Something else is also set for dialup as default.)

Which others do you suggest?

> 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

(No Advanced).

I see no way to toggle images off and on, or to load just one image in the 
main page.  Right click, View image, loads image on a page by itself.
Opera gives a choice - same page or separate page, and can toggle.

Firefox does not (by default anyway) let you know if it is downloading 
images (Opera does, but it downloads them even if they are turned off).
Since Load Image took a while, it may not have downloaded images with 
images turned off.

In preferences I set it to block cookies from third parties (which is the 
Opera default).

At llbean, click on main image, you get a page where clicking on the links 
which are Javascript:void (58669) (and other numbers) does nothing.

Opera 9.63 displays all the words in columns 2 characters wide (author or 
user mode) but the javascript links do work.

In Firefox, at landsend, a dropdown menu (boys) disappears if you try to 
move the mouse cursor to it.  You cannot arrow down to it.

In Opera 9 you can arrow down to every other link.
In Opera 8 the menu flashes on then disappears leaving a blank area, but 
keyboard navigation with q a displays the links at page bottom.

Links2 and lynx have no dropdown menu.  Links2 displays the 'top' menu at 
page right.

How much more memory does Firefox 3 require than 1.5?  Maybe it has more 
javascript capabilities? I read that 2 takes 50-100% more than 3.
Would it work with Slackware 11 libraries and enough cpu and RAM?

> Cheers,
> Steven