Fird's Domain

Ever wanted to surf images online without the fuss of going through text, or pages and pages until you found what you like? Why not do it with style at that?

Introducing PicLens!

PicLens instantly transforms your browser into a full-screen 3D experience for viewing images across the web. Our new interactive “3D Wall” and built-in search function lets you effortlessly drag, click, zoom, and zip your way around a wall of pictures for an extraordinary viewing experience.

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Note: This information is now obsolete, as this proxy is no longer to be found!

I don’t know about you guys, but the Internet connection (via Streamyx) in Cyberjaya is terrible. Websites takes a full minute just to get their host names resolved to IP address, not to mention a terrible download speed from international sites (I’m not talking about BitTorrent or any other P2P downloading here).

Then I remembered, during some outages months ago, you can sort-of re-route your connections via TMnet’s transparent proxy server. While this will not improve your gaming/BitTorrent/P2P downloading, it sure does make your surfing a hell lot better.

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Some websites, as we all know, are a big fan of IE (Internet Explorer) with one simple reason - most of the PCs come with it pre-installed and most companies don’t see a point in spending time installing another web browser and supporting it. However, some of the employees would probably prefer Firefox as they are used to the browser.

I for one, like it because of the extendability of the browser. However, almost my entire company’s corporate website works best in IE, so this drives me to a pinch - I don’t want to open lots of other windows and drive me nuts. Fine, I can always install those toolbars for IE or even upgrade to IE7. However, recent news is that my company bans all sort of toolbars due to security risk, and they do not support IE7 yet in case it causes problems.

(Not to mention some sites are so badly coded that it simply locks up Firefox upon load!)

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I've been using Opera lately and noticed that for certain sites (like deviantArt, PhotoMalaysia and Maybank2U), it can load the page almost rapidly, while Firefox 2.0 takes a while to load it. I'm left with some pondering on why such phenomenon happens. It is no doubt that Opera have one of the fastest rendering engine for websites.

Then it occurred to me - Firefox pipelining tweak! Last time I didn't bother to tweak my Firefox to cater for pipelining because I was using a GPRS connection, with a limited bandwidth. Now that I have a very nice house mate who let me use his Streamyx (this is a 512kB/sec DSL service) for no charge, I've decided to try this one small trick.

To begin, create a new tab in Firefox, and type the following in the address bar: "about:config".

You will then see a long list of configuration items for Firefox, most of these are very crucial to the browser's stability, so try not to mess around with them if you have no idea what they are for. Now key it "pipe" at the "Filter:" section on top, you'll see three items listed:

network.http.pipelining (false)
network.http.pipelining.maxrequests (4)
network.http.proxy.pipelining (false)

What you have to do is to make each of these like the following

network.http.pipelining (true)
network.http.pipelining.maxrequests (8)
network.http.proxy.pipelining (true)

Close and restart Firefox. Now try to surf around and you will notice that on sites with a lot of images/items, it will load much more rapidly. This trick probably already being discussed since Firefox 1.x but often people forget about it, so here it is as a recall :)

I've been using Mozilla Firefox, extremely comfortably ever since they release their 0.8 back then - yeah, way before their official release. One good thing about it, programmatically, is the fact that it only comes bare - and you can choose what kind of 'extensions' you want to add on to extend the functionality of the browser.

Among the list of hundreds of extensions out there, I've come to be accustomed with a few, that greatly improves my browsing experience (and productivity):

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