Slow page rendering with Firefox

[John Wendel]

Raman Gupta wrote:
> 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
> 

I get subsecond rendering times in elinks <grin>. Of course the page 
is not so attractive.

Linux Firefox 1.06  13.75 seconds.
Linux Konq           7.34 seconds.

Konqueror is definitely improving.

Regards,

John