Quoting Ron Ritzman ritzman@gmail.com:
On 11/22/07, joshua.zelinsky@yale.edu joshua.zelinsky@yale.edu wrote:
Is there maybe some problem with prefetching? Have you tried turning off prefetching and seeing if that speeds things up?
No I haven't tried that because it's my understanding that prefetching only starts *after* the page is loaded and displayed.
I'm not sure that's always true. I'm not an expert on this but I seem to recall that there are circumstances where this is false. The only one I remember off the top of my head is I think if one has multiple tabs loading after the first tab finishes Firefox can start prefetching the pages from the finished tab before the next one has loaded all the way. But I'm not completely sure about this. That could be wrong.