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this is an old but very handy hack i just found online and thought i’d post it to remember how to do it.

with just a few simple clicks, you can dramatically speed up your firefox browser on a high speed connection. this hack makes my intel mac mini blazin’ fast for surfing. well worth a try.

faster firefox hack
– type “about:config” (without quotes) in the address bar of firefox & hit enter

– scroll down to network.http.pipelining
 double-click the false so it switches to true

– the next line is network.http.pipelining.maxrequests
 double-click the “4″ and enter 20 into the box

– another double-click to switch network.http.proxy.pipelining to true

– now, right-click somewhere and select new -> integer
 type nglayout.initialpaint.delay into the box as the preference name
 enter 0 as the integer value
 *this kills the built in 250 millisecond delay before firefox acts on the data it’s receiving

restart your browser and see if it feels faster. works fantastic for me.

the sopranos on a&e? seems the closed captioning viewers get the full experience of the original as seen in their promo running sunday night.

although i can’t recommend the drive itself, its case has a nice circular area just asking for improvement.
after dremeling down & sanding the logo, the plastic cut surprisingly well with a spiral blade on the scroll saw.

it’s always bugged me how local news stations can allow themselves to blatantly disregard the concept of aspect ratio when it comes to the widescreen monitors scattered around their news sets

but this is just sad