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Safari 4 vs Firefox 3.1
There are two things Firefox can do that Safari can’t:
1. Set pipelining on. Although there is risk that the web servers can’t support pipelining it provides a nice speedup on a high-speed connection.
2. Allow tweaking of the Connections per server setting. This is technically against the recommendations of the w3c protocol but when you have lots of bandwidth you can really get a nice performance boost pulling down the attached images.
I wonder when Safari will support these settings? I wonder when the max connections per server will be increased by default?
Firefox 3.1 + Tracemonkey = VERY FAST
If you haven’t yet downloaded a nightly version of Firefox 3.1 go and do it. Enable the Tracemonkey support by going to about:config and searching for “jit”. Set both of the jit options to “true” and away you go. The speed difference is incredible. It made the Safari 4 developer’s preview look like it was standing still.
Firefox 3 Bookmarks with Quicksilver
- Open about:config in Firefox Location bar, agree that you won’t mess anything up.
- Search for “browser.bookmarks.autoExportHTML”
- Double click it to enable it (Or right click it and hit toggle)
- Restart Firefox & Quicksilver…
- “browser.bookmarks.autoExportHTML” makes firefox generate a new bookmarks.html at a certain point (don’t know when).
Snap, refresh the Quicksilver Firefox catalog item and voila, it works, FTW!
