Nglayout.initialpaint.delay

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The title given to this article is incorrect due to technical limitations. The correct title is nglayout.initialpaint.delay.

This article describes the preference nglayout.initialpaint.delay. To add, delete, or modify this preference, you will need to edit your configuration — do not edit this article.

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

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

Related preferences

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