Posts Tagged ‘FireFox’

FireFox Extensions

Tuesday, December 20th, 2005

FireFox is the best thing that happened in the browser industry. I am a compassionate FireFox user. However, I do not disregard Internet Explorer at all. As a HTML coder, I find diversity in browsers a blessing. This is because when one browser forgives an error the other browser will display it. Hence, it’s all good!

Here, I want to recommend following FireFox extensions that are helpful to a web developer.

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Making FireFox Faster

Wednesday, November 23rd, 2005

There are ways to make FireFox render pages faster, with just a few easy tweaks. I learnt about this tip through one of our office emails. I tried it and it did make a difference for me.

This is what the email said: To get started, type “about:config” in your FireFox address bar. The settings you’re looking for are:

  1. network.http.pipelining
  2. network.http.pipelining.firstrequest
  3. network.http.pipelining.maxrequests
  4. network.http.proxy.pipelining
  5. nglayout.initialpaint.delay

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