Using Firefox?

[rmunday]

I just found this this morning, what a difference!

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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.

If you're using a broadband connection you'll load pages MUCH faster now!

 

[bmcmeen]

Rick M. -

My pages load much faster cuz I've got a 64-bit Athlon

Really, Firefox really shines on a faster processor. I find that it's a tad slow with page drawing on these 700MHz Celerys at the office. Blah.

How many extensions ya got installed?

 

[rmunday]

Yeah, one machine at home is a P4 Extreme (1 MB L2 & 1MB L3) at 3.4 GHz and it's pretty quick but these sure made it faster.

On this machine - just the bandwidth tester, tabbedbrowser prefs and forecast. My main home machine probably a dozen or so.

 

[bmcmeen]

When ya gonna start tweakin' your userChrome.css?

 

[rmunday]

Heh, haven't needed to. I actually like the defaults. I may tinker on it some rainy day.

 

[jegstad]

Bryan,

Does the Discus sw support RSS so Firefox users can get live feeeds? TIA

JimE

 

[bmcmeen]

Rick M. -

Much less useful in Firefox than in Thunderbird, I'd say, but handy nonetheless. I prefer Verdana over the stock font.

In T-bird, I have it setup so that new messages are not only bolded, but are <font color="ff0000">red</font>. Now THAT stands out

Jim E. -

Good timing. I just ragged on my boss yesterday because a programmer had given us a utility that doesn't produce its output in plain text like we asked (so we could just pipe it into blat), but in XML. I asked my boss "what's next, an RSS feed?"

Anyway, to answer your question, all you have to do is click on "Program Credits" down at the bottom of the page, head to the author's website and see what they do, don't and plan on supporting. No sense in me restating what's already been stated.

However, even if they did offer it, I won't recommend to Bob that we turn it on. It's just not necessary. Good ol' HTML and the refresh button works just fine for everyone, thank you. Hell, is the traffic here so high that you can't keep up with it without a feed?

We also won't be supporting WAP, either, so don't ask

 

[jegstad]

Bryan,
No big deal. One more tweak to make it "better" usually uncovers more of the things you find under rocks. Been there done that - too many times. I was just curious because when I put Firefox on my wife's brand new machine it came up with the live links. When I put it on mine it didn't, so being curious I figured out how to get there. Then read up on RSS to find out what I had. I need to quit that, I'm supposed to be retired from that crap.

JimE

 

[tschweizer]

OK, now that I'm in the computer geek section, I got one of those questions.

We want to use our A/V receiver in the fire station to run the TV's for monitors. They want to use the PC for powerpoint(?) presentations, and feed it through the receiver. Can anybody point me in the right direction? Is it even possible?

 

[rmunday]

Travis, you need a VGA to TV converter. They run anywhere from $50 to a couple hundred.

There's so many different kinds and manufacturers out there, you shouldn't have any problems finding one.

 

[wcompton]

Travis-
What the heck are you guys doing? We went high tech when we went to a marker board!

 

[tschweizer]

Yeah, we got a 4X8 doodle pad too

 

[thoffman]

What the hell is "Fire Fox" anyhow, something very well done with four legs?

 

[rmunday]

Firefox is a web browser. The original code is based on the Mozilla engine from the Netscape browser but VASTLY improved.

http://www.getfirefox.com

 

[jgeorg]

Maybe someone here can answer this Firefox question. On the Google toolbar for IE anything entered in it you can highlight and search on any page. Can something like this done in FF?

(Message edited by jgeorg on March 30, 2005)

 

[rmunday]

Sure. You can highlight text within a page and right click, then selct Search Web for "x". Where "x" is the text you highlighted.

 

[jgeorg]

Rick, let me try again. On the Google toolbar add-on for IE, if you enter something in the search box you can then hit the highlight or find next occurrence button and it will highlight and or find the text on the page your looking at. Can something like this be done in FF?

 

[rmunday]

Bryan?

The only thing I can think of is CTRL-F. But there might be another way.

 

[jgeorg]

Thats it Rick!!!!

Somehow I missed that under edit. Thanks, John

 

[bmcmeen]

Grrrrrrrrr...

OK, so now they FORCE you to upgrade to 1.0.4, which of course breaks most extensions that aren't labelled as "1.0+". Including the very handy bookmark synchronizer, which of course hasn't been touched by the author since 12/04.