Most web sites will work with no issue using Firefox 3 or Internet Explorer 8. But there will be times you encounter a web page that will instantly crash your browser. One such example is crappy MySpace pages. It is very common to find pages with the following junk in it:
- Animated background graphic
- Animated Flash graphics
- Auto-play music player
- Other graphics pulled in from many different web sites (from the "comments" section on such pages)
It’s awful. And even if you have an absolutely default browser with no add-ons/plugins installed, pages like this can still crash your browser.
A way around this is to use the "No-Style" option which effectively kills almost all the crap on pages like this and keeps the browser from crashing.
In Firefox and IE: View / Page Style / No Style
In IE, if you don’t see the "View" on the menubar, just press ALT to see the menu.
Using No-Style will make web pages look Web 1.0-like. It reverts the style to the default font and makes otherwise "heavy" pages easy to scroll and read.
In addition, you can whiz thru the pages much faster. Granted, it may be "ugly", but it’s much faster than with everything loaded.
I do use this feature periodically because there are some web designs out there that are simply awful. And while (on Windows) Times New Roman 16-pixel size in black on a white background may be not-so stylish, it sure is easy to read.
Also remember that selecting "Basic Page Style" or "Default Style" puts the browser back in normal viewing mode, which it’s in by default.
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The heading made me think this was an article on how to make Firefox faster.
Unfortunately, that I did not get
I agree with these points.
Using least browser extensions will also speed up browsing experience. Just a observation.
Sometimes I visit a web site where the graphics will actually cover up some important information. For example, if I go to the faxzero web site, the little box containing the graphical security characters is covered and I can’t send a fax. On Fox News wb site, sometimes part of the text of a news story is covered by the accompanying picture. Setting the “Page Style” to “No Style” fixes these problems.
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