Friday, January 14

My Nerd Score

I found this in a post on MSDN Blogs:

I am nerdier than 95% of all people. Are you nerdier? Click here to find out!

Tuesday, January 4

How to speed up Firefox

Found a link to this (oddly) on MSDN Blogs:

Type "about:config" into the address bar of Firefox 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.

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.
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 receives.