Slow page rendering with Firefox

[Raman Gupta]

pking123 at sympatico.ca wrote:
>>Raman Gupta wrote:
>>
>>>http://scragz.com/tech/mozilla/test-rendering-time.php
>>
>>>Linux Firefox 1.06                  42.23
>>>Linux Konqueror 3.4.2-0.fc4.1       13.27
>>>Linux Opera 8.02 build 1272          7.08
>>>Windows (via VMWare) Firefox 1.06    8.18
>>>Windows (via VMWare) IE 6            7.12
>
> There are a whole bunch of things you can do with configuring Firefox
> 
> In your browser, do an 
>     about:config
> 
> There are an interminable list of settings for you to play with. 
> Double-click on a setting to change it. I direct your attention to 
> the setting called:
>     browser.turbo.enabled
> Set this to TRUE.

If it says "turbo" it must be good right? :-) According to this page:

http://kb.mozillazine.org/Firefox_:_FAQs_:_About:config_Entries#Browser..2A

this entry was deprecated (and had nothing to do with render times even
when it wasn't).

> These also look interesting. Check your values for these:
>    network.http.pipelining = TRUE
>    network.http.pipelining.maxrequests =  20
>    network.http.proxy.pipelining = TRUE

Thanks, I've tuned these already. My download times are fine -- its the
render time that is killing me.

Cheers,
Raman