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How to change the way Firefox renders a web page to make it load the page a bit more faster initially
What is this Tip?

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Mozilla renders web pages in an incrementing fashion. i.e. the browser displays what has been received of a page before the entire thing is downloaded. In the initial stages of the download of a web page, Mozilla waits for a short interval of time before rendering it. The following tweak can let you control this interval to make web pages load a bit faster. This is controlled by the Initial Paint Delay Preference settings – which is not available by default – and changing this can give the impression that the page loads faster.
How to implement this Tip?

1. Launch Firefox and type about:config in the address bar and press enter. This will load the about:config page of your copy of Firefox browser.

2. Right click in this page and create a new preference by selecting New > Integer from the context menu. Name it 'nglayout.initialpaint.delay' and give it the value of '0'. This is the value in time for which mozilla waits initially before rendering each page and since we have set this to 0, pages will load a bit more faster.