Enough of that. The purpose of this post is to relate some settings changes that Firefox users may be interested in.
A mate on another board mentioned settings to speed up Firefox (the famed Speed Up hack, which does little for my 4 MB ADSL here in China but...):
1. Type "about:config" into the address bar 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.
2. 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.
3. 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. Now shut down your browser.. reopen
I also did some tinkering of my own. In the J-go version, Yahoo検索 is the default search engine, which irked me to no end since I use Google. Anyway, using the same about:config page and technique to revert back to Google:
browser.contenthandlers.types.0.title
browser.contenthandlers.types.0.uri
changed to Google and [url]http://www.google.co.jp/ig/add?feedurl=%s[/url]
respectively to have Google first
browser.search.order.1 Google
browser.search.order.2 Yahoo
Swapped the order to have Google first
browser.search.defaultenginename
browser.search.selectedEngine Google
changed both to Google
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I also use Google as my homepage, so
browser.startup.homepage http://www.google.co.jp/
