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, (more…)

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Many of us tried to access Google Search from a mobile device and even if the company allows such operations, viewing the results provided by the search engine was very difficult. Google launched a tool that allows users to visit all the pages from a mobile phone without any issue using a special transcoder.

T.V. Raman, Research Scientist at Google, posted a message in his blog to present and describe the new utility: “designed for cell phone users, I find the Google web transcoder has become an indispensable tool for me when I’m confronted with complex web pages. In fact when one searches the web using mobile phones, Google search hits often get redirected to go through the transcoder in order to provide the mobile user with a web page that works on small displays. (more…)

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