How to change the 'perceived' page loading speed...
Tuesday, 6. July 2004, 15:06:38
For many users coming to Opera from IE or Firefox, it often appears that the page loading -- especially if there are lots of images -- is slower and / or visually jarring. This is in fact an incorrect impression. NonTroppo has shown through his painstaking experiments that Opera is indeed no slower than any other browser in page rendering. Then what seems to cause this prevalent misconception?
The answer seems to lie in the refresh rate -- or the interval of time at which Opera re-renders the page content. This is a setting that can be controlled through Preferences > Window >> Loading, but the smallest (i.e. fastest) one can set this is to refresh every second.
One can, however, hand-edit the opera6.ini file in one's profile folder (see Help > About Opera for Preferences for its location). Here's what to do:
º Close Opera
º Open the opera6.ini file in a text editor
º Under the [User prefs] section, find the line that looks like First Update Delay=N where N denotes redraw time in milliseconds
º Change N to the desired value (e.g. 200)
º Save and close the file
º Start Opera
The answer seems to lie in the refresh rate -- or the interval of time at which Opera re-renders the page content. This is a setting that can be controlled through Preferences > Window >> Loading, but the smallest (i.e. fastest) one can set this is to refresh every second.
One can, however, hand-edit the opera6.ini file in one's profile folder (see Help > About Opera for Preferences for its location). Here's what to do:
º Close Opera
º Open the opera6.ini file in a text editor
º Under the [User prefs] section, find the line that looks like First Update Delay=N where N denotes redraw time in milliseconds
º Change N to the desired value (e.g. 200)
º Save and close the file
º Start Opera
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