View source for Nglayout.initialpaint.delay

{{preference|pref=nglayout.initialpaint.delay}}

==Background==
Mozilla applications render web pages incrementally - they display what's been received of a page before the entire page has been downloaded. Since the start of a web page normally doesn't have much useful information to display, Mozilla applications will wait a short interval before first rendering a page. This preference controls that interval.

==Possible values and their effects==
The number of milliseconds to wait before first displaying the page. (Default: 250)

==Caveats==
* This preference does not exist by default.

==Recommended settings==
Lower values will make a page initially display more quickly, but will make the page take longer to finish rendering. Higher values will have the opposite effect.

==First checked in==
[http://bonsai.mozilla.org/cvsview2.cgi?diff_mode=context&whitespace_mode=show&file=nsPresShell.cpp&branch=3.919&root=/cvsroot&subdir=mozilla/layout/base&command=DIFF_FRAMESET&rev1=3.391&rev2=3.392 2001-04-25 by David Hyatt]

==Has an effect in==
* Netscape (all versions since 6.1)
* Mozilla Suite (all versions since 0.9)
* Phoenix (all versions)
* Firebird (all versions)
* Firefox (all versions)
* SeaMonkey (all versions)

==Related bugs==
* [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=77002 Bug 77002 - Avoid eager painting of Web page content in SeaMonkey]
* [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=180241 Bug 180241 - Paint Timeout is too high]

==Related preferences==
* [[content.notify.interval]]

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[[Category:Tweaking preferences]]