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  • From: "Tony Spencer" <tony AT tonyspencer.com>
  • To: "'Internetworkers: http://www.ibiblio.org/internetworkers/'" <internetworkers AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: RE: [internetworkers] Firefox
  • Date: Fri, 22 Apr 2005 17:48:38 -0400

Thanks for the tip Ron. I'll give it a try. It seems really slow for me
when hitting the back button in rapid succession and it seems like your
suggestion may be on point for that problem.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: ron thigpen [mailto:ron AT fuzzsonic.com]
> Sent: Friday, April 22, 2005 5:47 PM
> To: Internetworkers: http://www.ibiblio.org/internetworkers/
> Subject: Re: [internetworkers] Firefox
>
> 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.
>
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