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["Tony Spencer" <tony AT tonyspencer.com>]

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.
> 
> --rt
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