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Faster Browsing
General Hints:
Set browser to not Auto Load Images.
Trash the Global History preferences file.
Set Monitors control panel for minimum colors.
Increase browser application Preferred size to maximum possible.
Turn off Virtual Memory.
Fix the Netscape redraw bug.
Use a ram disk for browser cache.
Netscape (680X0)
Fix the Redraw Bug (note: redraw does not occur on cached pages.) Related Article
Navigator 2.02 & 3.04
Basics: Use ResEdit to open Netscape DATA ID=0 resource and
use Find ASCII.. to find CHARSET where it occurs in the string CHARSET=A'CONTENT.
Change CHARSET=A'CONTENT to XHARSET=A'CONTENT.
ResEdit hack for Netscape Navigator 2.02
Navigator & Communicator 4.08 (680X0)
Basics: Use ResEdit to open Netscape 4.08 DATA ID=0 resource and
use Find ASCII.. to find CHARSET where it occurs in the string CHARSET=BOUNDARY=.
Change CHARSET=BOUNDARY= to XHARSET=BOUNDARY=.
ResEdit hack for Netscape Navigator Standalone 4.08 (680X0)
Test Page
Test Page
Any Browser:
Use AppDisk ram disk for browser cache.
AppDisk 1.6.1 for 680X0.
AppDisk 1.7.4 for 680X0 & PPC.
SETUP:
(1) Place alias of AppDisk in Startup Items folder in System folder.
(2) Use Get Info on AppDisk to set Preferred size of ram disk.
(3) Launch AppDisk and configure Setup as shown here:
These settings will cause Cache to be flushed when AppDisk quits.
(4) Launch browser and find preferences for Cache.
(5) Clear Cache.
(6) Set maximum Cache size to be less than that of step (2).
(7) Select AppDisk disk icon on desktop as destination for Cache.
(8) Reboot.
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11/25/2001 Rev 03/08/02