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[ron thigpen <ron AT fuzzsonic.com>]

Tony Spencer wrote:
> I've been using it for a while and most things I love but I wish it were
> faster.  Even with these tweaks its still quite a bit slower than IE:
> http://www.tonyspencer.com/mt/archives/2005/02/firefox_too_slo.htm

i don't really find it slower on my machines.  YMMV.  though weighing it 
down with too many extensions can make it take longer to launch.

tony, you may want to play around with the nglayout.initialpaint.delay 
value.  depending on your system and net connection, something between 
30 and 100 is probably a more optimized value.

a zero setting gets the rendering going right away, but as more bits 
arrive it has to repaint.  with it set too low you get the immediate 
satisfaction of seeing /something/, but total page rendering times rise 
and you may see a bit of jerky reflow of page elements.  FWIW.

--rt