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Valen
Experienced Roboteer
Joined: 07 Jul 2004
Posts: 4436
Location: Sydney
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like i said, i leave precaching off
the pipelineing etc however now that makes for some wootage, especially on american sites with assloads of small bits and peices (things like yahoo home page etc (that is if they arent running iis5 or something which dosent support pipelining))
basically pipelining sends a whole bunch of requests in one big chunk rather than getting each peice of a page individually. When you are on dialup or unwired and you are paying like half a second for each round trip then it can make a *big* difference, Problem is not all servers support pipeling, opera has it turned on by default with some heuristics to look at a servers first response and see if it probbly will support a pipe then it either does or dosent use one for all subsequent connections. Firefox dodged the whole issue (for compatibility presumabily) and though its built into the browser its turned off, you can either turn it on manually with about:config (punch that into your address bar for some giggles) or just get fasterfox (one *optional* (and disabled by default) facet of which is precaching). It also tweaks the inital paint delay (to 0 i believe) which makes the page render as soon as it gets information and then re-render it as it gets more. This can be good and bad, if your on broadband then the reflowing chews up cpu and could actually lead to slower load times, if your on dialup well it'll atleast show you somethings happening ;->. It does make it feel "zippier" though because of the click *bang* type of response.
oh yeah and theres addons for mouse gestures
and voice command if your keen ;-> (i think or did i get confused with opera there?)
Oh btw glen check
https://addons.mozilla.org/extensions/moreinfo.php?id=1273&application=firefox
its a thingie that lets you pick proxies easily so you can choose between the tafe and mine for that "alternate" browsing, like when the forum gets classified as porn again. _________________ Mechanical engineers build weapons, civil engineers build targets
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