Mozilla Firefox and Microsoft Internet Explorer web browsers descended from Netscape Navigator?

I came to know through wikipedia that both Mozilla Firefox and Microsoft Internet Explorer web browsers descended from Netscape Navigator? It was interesting to me and I thought I would blog about it.

And now, where did Netscape Navigator descended from?!!! Mosiac. If all browsers are from something else then which was the original one? Opera?

The most widely used browser according to me is Firefox and a closer one to it is Chrome. Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates has used Firefox, has commented here that "so much software gets downloaded all the time, but do people actually use it?" I am sure the rest of the world will not agree his views.

How to make your IE be fast like other browsers?

I always used to bitch IE for being very slow while opening web pages. In fact it can be faster too when you start up with no ad ons. But we can not disable ad ons for the sake of making it fast. In fact most of the modern applications uses flash and javascript in their web pages. So what could be the solution?

Follow these steps,

1. Start the Registry Editor

2. Go to HKEY_CURRENT_USER \ Software \ Microsoft \ Windows \ CurrentVersion \ Internet Settings

3. Select New > DWORD Value from the Edit menu

4. Name the new value "MaxConnectionsPer1_0Server"

5. Right-click the MaxConnectionsPer1_0Server value and choose Modify

6. Under Base, click the radio button next to Decimal

7. In the Value Data: box enter the number of simultaneous connections you want to set (for example 10 is a good value).

8. Click OK

9. Repeat steps 3 - 7 using the new value as "MaxConnectionsPerServer"

10. Exit the registry editor

Now start your IE and you will notice a difference. So finally your wish to make IE run faster is fulfilled.

Why is it so?

To comply with current Internet standards, Internet Explorer limits the number of simultaneous downloads to two downloads, plus one queued download. This configuration is a function of the browser. However, as connection speeds increase, and the number of total connections that are allowed to Internet servers increase, the two-connection limit may be restrictive.

Please Note: Changing the maximum number of connections beyond two is a violation of Internet standards; use at your own risk!

Now IE has become fast so am I going to use IE? No will be my answer. I use Chorme 2.0.172.33 its awesome. Follow the steps in my previous post on How to Dowload/Upgrade Google Chrome 2.0 Pre Beta

My next preference is to Firefox 3.5.

How to make your websites run faster

Installing a fast browser is not always enough to have a good experience when you browse the web: many web pages aren't optimized for performance. To help webmasters improve their sites, Google launched a new section as part of Google Code: "Let's make the web faster", which includes useful articles, videos and downloadable tools.

You'll learn how to optimize CSS declarations, how to optimize JavaScript code and avoid memory leaks, how to use the best image format and prefetch resources.

Google also released a Firebug plug-in for Firefox that evaluates web pages and provides suggestions to improve them. Here are the suggestions provided for this blog's homepage:


* There is 58.8kB worth of JavaScript. Minifying could save 15.7kB (26.7% reduction). Google provides the minified versions of all the inline blocks and external files.

* The following cacheable resources have a short freshness lifetime. Specify an expiration at least one month in the future for the following resources: [list of resources].

* The following domains only serve one resource each. If possible, avoid the extra DNS lookups by serving these resources from existing domains.

* An inline script block was found in the head between an external CSS file and another resource. To allow parallel downloading, move the inline script before the external CSS file, or after the next resource.

* A width and height should be specified for all images in order to speed up page display.

* Serve the following static resources from a domain that doesn't set cookies: [list of resources].

I use pagespeed and it helped me a lot to improve my web pages performance. Worth to give a try.

Firefinder For Firebug

An Extension To Quickly Find Elements Matching Your CSS Selectors Or XPath Expressions

Firefinder is an extension to Firebug (in Firefox) and offers the functionality to, in a quick way, find HTML elements matching chosen CSS selector(s) or XPath expression. It allows you to instantly test your CSS selectors in the page while seeing the content at the same time, and matching elements will be highlighted.

It also offers you a count of how many matches there are - good for checking, for instance, the number of heading elements - and it also lists all the matching in a collapsible list in the Firefinder panel in Firebug. When you hover each item in that list, the corresponding element in the web page will be highlighted so you see which one it is.

If you are in a web page and want to quickly use Firefinder, just press Ctrl + Shift + V on PC/Linux,Command + Shift + V on Macs, and the Firefinder panel will become visible and you can type away immediately.

Download

Download Firefinder for Firebug and get started!

How to Dowload/Upgrade Google Chrome 2.0 Pre Beta

1. Download & Get Google Chrome Stable Release (this step is only required if you dont have Google Chrome)
2. Download and run the Google Chrome Channel Changer
3. Now run Google Chrome Chnnel Changer chromechannel-2.0.exe, and check "Beta: More Stable releases (~Monthly Updates)"
4. Now Start your Google Chrome and Go to Settings->About and Click Update Now and it will start updating your Google Chrome 1.0.154.36 to Google Chrome 2.0156.1.

You need to wait for some time to get Offline Google Chrome Installer.

Google Chrome 2.0 - Better, Faster, Stronger

Google Chrome 2, now out of beta, is less about exciting new features and more about better performance. There's nothing impressive about adding full screen support, form filling or full-page zoom, since all of these features are already available in most browsers.

"Making the web faster continues to be the main area of focus. A new version of WebKit and an update to JavaScript engine, V8, interactive web pages will run even faster. Also it is made sure that JavaScript keeps running fast even when you have lots of tabs open," reveals Google Chrome's blog.

Google's own benchmark shows that the new version runs 30% faster than Chrome 1.0, but it's probably a better idea to test the application for yourself.

I have Chrome 2, and I feel it is faster than any other browsers