This page gives information on how to make your browser a faster, better running one.
Make a back up copy of all the browser files before you do anything.
With Mozilla types you can not delete a setting once you added one in there, that is why you need a copy of everything.
Take your time doing this stuff.

 With Mozilla type browsers you can change the settings in the about:config.
Using the settings on this page only works on Mozilla & Opera browsers that have
"about:config" ability or "opera:config".

 If you did not know, put in "about:config" in the URL: box of your Mozilla browser or "opera:config" with Opera
& hit enter. This gives you access to your configuration files.

 It is kind of hard at first to change the settings in Mozilla type browsers. For the most part it is Firefox, Seamonkey
& some others out there. You can use Fasterfox to speed things up easier, but for me to many plugins slow down
the browser. It would be best to not add more plugins to the browser this would bloat it & slow it down more.
So for me I just get in & change the settings already there.
 If you have FasterFox on your Firefox or Seamonkey browser then do not do anything it might mess up
the settings in the About:config

 As for K-meleon 1.5+ types you can just use the Macro file "dbSpeed.kmm" to speed up things,
but with some K-MeleonCCF types you can not. You can change it's initialpaint.delay, tracemonkey
& others but that is fast enough to be faster than the dbSpeed.kmm file in the K-meleon 1.5+ browser.
 This is due to the gecko1.9+ engine being faster than the 1.8+ engine.

Info on Mozilla "about:config" can be found at:
http://kb.mozillazine.org/About:config_entries

Info on Opera "opera:config" can be found at:
http://my.opera.com/Tamil/blog/index.dml/tag/Opera:Config

Info on "tracemonkey" is at:
http://ejohn.org/blog/tracemonkey
https://wiki.mozilla.org/JavaScript:TraceMonkey

***To add a new setting to the Mozilla configuration, just type in "About:config"
Then when in there just right click & go to new,
then add what you want to add.
 As in, add a new "integer" & name it "nglayout.initialpaint.delay"
Then put the value "0" that would be one setting done.
 To change the value of a setting just click on it twice & change the value, that is how it works.
 

***NEW COPY & PASTE THIS ABOUT:CONFIG *MOZILLA SETTINGS ( *Speed settings. )
 

( ( ( Preference Name ) ) )	( ( ( Type ) ) )	( ( ( Value ) ) )
nglayout.initialpaint.delay	integer	0
app.update.enabled	boolean	false
content.notify.backoffcount	integer	10
content.notify.interval	integer	240000
content.notify.ontimer	boolean	true
network.http.pipelining.firstrequest	boolean	true

 

***CHANGE THIS ABOUT:CONFIG *MOZILLA SETTINGS ( *Speed settings. )
 

( ( ( Preference Name ) ) )	( ( ( Value ) ) )
browser.cache.disk.capacity	76800
browser.cache.memory.capacity	65536 *If this is not listed in the config you may not need it on.
network.http.max-connections	48
network.http.max-connections-per-server	24
network.http.max-persistent-connections-per-proxy	16
network.http.max-persistent-connections-per-server	8
network.http.pipelining	true
network.http.pipelining.maxrequests	8
network.http.proxy.pipelining	true
network.dns.disableIPv6	true

 

***CHANGE THIS ABOUT:CONFIG *MOZILLA SETTINGS ( *Speed settings for gecko1.9 types only tracemonkey. )
 

( ( ( Preference Name ) ) )	( ( ( Value ) ) )
javascript.options.jit.content	true
javascript.options.jit.chrome	true

 

***CHANGE THIS ABOUT:CONFIG *MOZILLA SETTINGS ( *Security settings. )
 ( The "***" is for the K-meleon browser only. )
 

( ( ( Preference Name ) ) )	( ( ( Value ) ) )
dom.disable_image_src_set	true
*** kmeleon.adblocking	true
*** kmeleon.flashblock	true
dom.disable_window_move_resize	true
dom.allow_scripts_to_close_windows	false
dom.disable_window_flip	true
dom.disable_window_status_change	true
security.xpconnect.plugin.unrestricted	false
browser.blink_allowed	false
dom.event.contextmenu.enabled	false
svg.enabled	false
network.http.sendSecureXSiteReferrer	false
network.http.sendRefererHeader	0

 

***CHANGE THIS HIGH SECURITY *MOZILLA SETTINGS ( *High Security settings. )
 

( ( ( Preference Name ) ) )	( ( ( Value ) ) )
browser.frames.enabled	false
plugin.scan.plid.all	false
general.useragent.override	Opera/9.27 (Windows NT 5.1; U; en)
useragentswitcher.reset.onclose	false

 More user agents at http://www.zytrax.com/tech/web/browser_ids.htm
*Changing your user agent for the most part to me is to change what the browser tells your OS is.
If you are running an old operating system it would be best to make the browser say it is something else
partly for security reasons.
 

 The "KMFILES.7z" file for the K-meleon browser has "dbSpeed.kmm, & the skins files.
It is a kit for the K-meleon browser.
 The dbSpeed.kmm file has the same Mozilla speed settings as this page
that will work with Gecko 1.8.
It has only the speed settings it has no security settings on it at all.

 SPEED UP SETTINGS FOR THE ( ( ( K-meleon browser ) ) )
http://kmeleon.sourceforge.net/wiki/KmmSpeedUp
http://kmeleon.sourceforge.net/wiki/PageSpeed

 Opera on the most part is setup fast it does have a initialpaint.delay like Mozilla, but it runs kind of the different.
Located in "preference"  "advanced"  "Browsing"  Redraw. Opera did start redrawing in 0 seconds blanking
the screen waiting for content to come in. This did give it some ugly page flashing when it loaded up. But now you
can change the redrawing time & there is no page flashing as far as I can see with it when I load up a page.
 The new opera runs different than the past one. It might not blank the screen for content to come in any more.
 I do know the new opera engine, but I know it is fast, & tight. Sometimes it is too tight & from that some websites
will not work right with opera. But for the most part it is good.
 It is not that hard to change the speed settings in Opera, you do not have to add anything, just change it.
This information is from an old Opera 7+ page: http://operawiki.info/Opera7PageFlashing

SPEED UP SETTINGS FOR THE ( ( ( Opera browser ) ) )
http://www.ghacks.net/2007/03/29/10-tips-to-speed-up-opera-9
http://www.favbrowser.com/speed-up-opera
 
 

*COMMAND LINE SETTINGS *SEAMONKEY SETTINGS (*To make a shortcut for an application to run. )
 If you have the Seamonkey browser you can add this to the shortcut to make
a part of the browser load up you want.

 Just make a copy of the shortcut of "seamonkey.exe" Click on its
properties then where is says target add the line at the end like:
"C:\Programs files\Seamonkey\seamonkey.exe -mail"

-mail    (*To load up Mail.)
-addressbook    (*To load up your Address book.)
-editor    (*To load up the Composer.)
-chat    (*To load up ChatZilla.)
-nosplash    (*To load up with no splash screen.)
-quiet    (*Disable splash screen.)
-height <value>    (*Set height of startup window to <value>.)
-h or -help    (*Prints this list.)
-installer    (*Start with 4.x migration window.)
-width <value>    (*Set width of startup window to <value>.)
-v or -version    (*Print SeaMonkey version.)
-CreateProfile <profile>    (*Create <profile>.)
-P <profile>    (*Start with <profile>.)
-ProfileWizard    (*Start with profile wizard.)
-ProfileManager    (*Start with profile manager.)
-SelectProfile    (*Start with profile selection dialog.)
-UILocale <locale>    (*Start with <locale> resources as UI Locale.)
-contentLocale <locale>    (*Start with <locale> resources as content Locale.)
-console    (*Start SeaMonkey with a debugging console.)
-news    (*Start with news.)
-jsconsole    (*Start with Javascript Console.)
-edit <url>    (*Start with editor.)
-chrome <url>    (*Load the specified chrome.)

 It is possible to compress your browser files & to fix them so they are cleaner.
With K-meleon, Seamonkey & Opera browsers & programs I used these programs.
 

((( http://upx.sourceforge.net )))
 Is what I used to compress all the .DLL, .EXE files, and Java & Flash etc if you dare.
Download the upx file & put in its place then Just drag all ".dll & .exe"
files you can find to the "upx.exe" file that is in the program.
This is what I used mostly in K-meleon, Seamonkey & others.
 

((( http://www.nuetools.co.uk ))) aka StripFile
 This is used to shrink the ".HTML, .GIF & .PNG files but not your bookmarks!"
This seems to be mostly in the Seamonkey browser, in a small part of K-meleon
& the Opera browser in the zipped skin files.
 

((( http://csstidy.sourceforge.net )))
 Is what can be used in the Opera browser it did not shrink the size of Opera but,
seemed to make things work a bit better. Just drag all ".CSS" files you can find
to the csstidy, csstidy.exe file.
 

((( http://proguard.sourceforge.net )))
 This is mostly to compress & fix up Java so it runs faster.
But as for me there is a lot of work doing that, it just for small gains.
 

 This is the numbers "Before & After" compressing.
 

Before compression K-meleon size 15.3 MB (16,080,361) size on disk 17.2 MB (18,120,704) After compression K-meleon size 8.95 MB (9,386,835) size on disk 10.9 MB (11,452,416)

Before compression Seamonkey size 32.9 MB (34,556,121) size on disk 35.2 MB (36,929,536) After compression Seamonkey size 23.7 (24,936,379) size on disk 26.3.0 (27,590,656)

Before compression Opera size 14.0 MB (14,742,751) size on disk 14.8 MB (15,622,144) After compression Opera size 13.9 MB (14,592,448) size on disk 14.7 MB (15,482,880) After compression with "Csstidy" Opera *http://csstidy.sourceforge.net size 14.7 MB (15,518,795) size on disk 15.8 MB (16,588,800)

This is a test on the 7 wonders of the internet web browsers as of 1-5-09

Opera 10.00 alpha  http://www.opera.com
K-MeleonCCF ME 0.09 RC1  http://kmeleon.blogspot.com
Safari 3.2.1  http://www.apple.com/safari
Firefox 3.0.4  http://www.mozilla.com
Seamonkey 1.1.11  http://www.seamonkey-project.org
K-Meleon 1.5.0  http://kmeleon.sourceforge.net
Explorer 7  http://www.microsoft.com/windows/downloads/ie/getitnow.mspx

 The test is based on the Page rendering time, Speed/validity selectors test, Security test, Acid3 test
& a Bandwidth Speed Test.

Tested 7 times at http://scragz.com/archived/mozilla/test-rendering-time
Tested 2 times at http://mootools.net/slickspeed
Tested 2 times at http://pcpitstop.com/internet/default.asp
Tested 2 times at http://www.acidtests.org
Tested at http://bcheck.scanit.be/bcheck

 The PC is a Windows XP sp3
Intel Pentium 2.00 GHz 256 Ram.
The inernet speed is about 1150 kbps download & 250 kbps upload + -

 All Browsers are set up mostly as is for the test.
Based on the test, the results reflect browsers ability to rendering
a page fast & by it's usability.

 You can change the settings on some of the browsers to speed things up more, which I did
with "K-MeleonCCF ME 0.09 Beta4 V2" because it is one of the underdogs of the bunch.
The settings were changed in the "Properties / Advanced" part.

 The browser speed is found by 5 different ways, by the average time to render a page tested 7 times.
The speed & validity selectors test, tested 2 times, then all 10 results of the page are added up & divided by 10.
 Then the Acid3 test is tested 2 times to make sure the numbers are right.
The Bandwidth Speed Test is tested 2 times the put in an average.
 Each browser reacts different to the test, the Opera browser has a slower upload time than the others,
this reflects the need for the test.

This is just for information on browsers on how good each one works.
 

Opera 10.00 alpha Page rendering time: 6.108 5.896 5.952 5.875 5.828 5.859 5.937 =AVERAGE 5.922 Speed/validity selectors test: 262.6 Security test: Passed! Acid3 test: 100/100 Speed test: 1160 kbs download 129 ms ping 244 kbs upload	Safari 3.2.1 Page rendering time: 6.752 6.716 6.672 6.792 6.838 6.645 6.878 =AVERAGE 6.756 Speed/validity selectors test: 343.2 Security test: Passed! Acid3 test: 75/100 Speed test: 1158 kbs download 73 ms ping 253.5 kbs upload	K-MeleonCCF ME 0.09 RC3 pre Page rendering time:  8.937  9.085  9.744  9.275  9.444  9.775  9.417 =AVERAGE 9.382 Speed/validity selectors test: 366.1 Security test: Passed!  Acid3 test: 93/100 Speed test: 1126.5 kbs download 67.5 ms ping 255 kbs upload
Firefox 3.0.5 Page rendering time: 8.621 8.969 8.949 8.261 8.907 8.581 8.923 =AVERAGE 8.744 Speed/validity selectors test: 413.7 Security test: Passed! Acid3 test: 71/100 1158.5 kbs download 70 ms ping 253 kbs upload	SeaMonkey 1.1.14 Page rendering time: 7.485 7.437 7.312 7.577 7.171 7.324 7.409 =AVERAGE 7.387 Speed/validity selectors test: 936.6 Security test: Passed Acid3 test: 53/100 1153 kbs download 78.5 ms ping 252.5 kbs upload	K-Meleon 1.5.2 Page rendering time: 7.141 7.078 7.032 7.157 7.250 7.187 7.094 =AVERAGE 7.172 Speed/validity selectors test: 909.2 Security test: Passed! Acid3 test: 53/100 1134 kbs download 66 ms ping 253.5 kbs upload
	Explorer 7  Page rendering time: 8.140 8.266 8.062 8.016 7.905 8.062 7.921 =AVERAGE 8.053 Speed/validity selectors test: 2270.9 Security test: Passed! Acid3 test: 12/100 1141 kbs download 57 ms ping 253.5 kbs upload

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