Tag: initially

Speed Up Firefox Page Rendering

September 03, 2007 by Jason

Mozilla applications render web pages incrementally – they display what’s been received of a page before the entire page has been downloaded. Since the start of a web page normally doesn’t have much useful information to display, Mozilla applications will wait a short interval before first rendering a page: by default, Firefox doesn’t try to render a web page for 250 milliseconds while it’s waiting for data.

If you use about:config to add the Integer preference nglayout.initialpaint.delay, and set the value to 0, Firefox immediately starts to display the page, even without complete data (lower values will make a page initially display more quickly, Read More»

Explorer Breadcrumbs for Windows XP

July 02, 2007 by Jason

Breadcrumbs was initially introduced in Gnome’s Nautilus file browser. This feature was later implemented in Windows Vista for simplifying directory navigation by adding a toolbar which shows the directories you’ve navigated. Luckily for Windows XP users, a donationware called Explorer Breadcrumbs brings the same functionality to Windows XP.

With Explorer Breadcrumbs, you can click on the toolbar and go back to any previous directory at any point of time. Read More»