I was not very tired so I spent the evening running back and forth between TV's setting and recording shows while watching Boondock Saints. While watching the movie I have also been playing around with the extensions and themes for Firefox and Thunderbird which is the Mozilla email client that I use. Without a doubt they are the best browser and email client I have used.
For those of you using Firefox here is a quick tweak sent to me by one of my "geek" buddies. I have done it to both my computers and am tickled pink with the results. Now you are not going to be seeing such an increase in speed that you don't need to upgrade from that cheap assed Earthlink Accelerator (waste of money IMHO) but you will see a change right away.
How To Speed Up Firefox (Helpful Vanity)
Posted on 12/12/2004 12:45:50 PM PST
Here's something for broadband people that will really speed Firefox up:
1.Type "about:config" into the address bar and hit return. Scroll down and look for the following entries:
network.http.pipelining
network.http.proxy.pipelining
network.http.pipelining.maxrequests
Normally the browser will make one request to a web page at a time. When you enable pipelining it will make several at once, which really speeds up page loading.
2. Alter the entries as follows:
Set "network.http.pipelining" to "true"
Set "network.http.proxy.pipelining" to "true"
Set "network.http.pipelining.maxrequests" to some number like 30. This means it will make 30 requests at once.
3. Lastly right-click anywhere and select New-> Integer. Name it "nglayout.initialpaint.delay" and set its value to "0". This value is the amount of time the browser waits before it acts on information it recieves.
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