Chimera has been picking up a reputation as being just about the fastest
browser for Mac OS-X (not to mention having many other abilities that
folks are really liking such as the ability to control pop-up windows,
etc.)
There is a hint on today's MacOSXHints.com site about making this speedy
browser even faster....
Here is the gist of the hint (AND you don't have to use Terminal to do
it!)
You can enable HTTP/1.1 pipelining in chimera by adding the following
lines to your ~/Library -> Application Support -> Chimera -> profiles ->
default -> [random].slt -> prefs.js file:
user_pref("network.http.pipelining", true);
user_pref("network.http.proxy.pipelining", true);
Pipelining speeds up browsing a lot.
1) So open up a new finder window, click on the Home button (Assuming
you have the finder window preferences set up to allow this).
2) Click on the Library folder and open it.
3) Click on the Application Support folder and open it.
4) Click on the Chimera folder and open it.
5) Click on the profiles folder and open it.
6) Click on the default folder and open it.
7) Click on the folder that has the name that ends in .slt and open it.
8) Drag and drop the file called prefs.js file onto the Text Edit
application and it will open it.
9) Scroll down to the end and add the two lines:
user_pref("network.http.pipelining", true);
user_pref("network.http.proxy.pipelining", true);
10) Save the file and restart Chimera and go surfing.
If you need a copy of Chimera to play with (to make it go faster than it
already does) you can pick one up at http://www.mozilla.org/
The current version is 0.6.0 Considering how nice this one is, I wonder
what version 1.0 will be like!?
Jerry
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