Firefox Users, Try this,

[Smoovious]

Normally the browser will make one request to a web page at a time. When you enable pipelining it will make several at once, which really speeds up page loading.

This isn't quite correct...

Normally, the browser will make several requests to an individual web site at a time, with individual connections simultaneously.

When you enable pipelining, it will still make several requests, with several connections at once, but instead of closing the connection after the element is downloaded, it holds the connection open allowing you to download additional elements using the same connection.

How this speeds up fetching pages, is you don't need to waste time re-negotiating connections over and over again since the connection is already established, in effect, using the connection as a pipeline to the html server.

-- Smoovious

ps> If you have used Netscape in the past, and miss having a combination browser/mail/news client, try SeaMonkey... it is basically Netscape Communicator with on-going development, begun with the same code. Also by the Mozilla group. Same place you would find Firefox.

 

[tonyvdb]

if you have used Netscape in the past, and miss having a combination browser/mail/news client, try SeaMonkey... it is basically Netscape Communicator with on-going development, begun with the same code. Also by the Mozilla group.

Do people still use Netscape anymore? Or is it no longer available? I havent heard "Netscape" in a long time.