What is the Acid 2 Test?
Acid2 is a test suite published and promoted by the Web Standards Project to identify web page rendering flaws in browsers and authoring tools. Acid2 was released on April 12, 2005. It has been developed in the spirit of the Acid1 test from 1998. The Acid tests test many features on a single page and report test results graphically.
Acid2 tests features of HTML and, more prominently, CSS. The purpose of testing such features is to highlight the problems with browsers that do not display it correctly. The Acid2 test should render correctly on any browser that follows the W3C HTML and CSS 2.0 specifications. Because Acid2 tests how web browsers deal with faulty code, the test is intentionally not written to W3C CSS standard specifications, and fails validation. This is expected and was the intention of its designers.
Now that you’ve read what it does, check out some of the results with the browsers:
Internet Explorer 7
This is absolutely hilarious, a grade 11 student from “Big Spring High School” receives detention from his/her teacher after he/she was warned twice about using a different but better browser for work in class…
Is this real or fake? We’ll let you decide, don’t forget to read the letter sent to this student’s parents here (especially the bit in red)…
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Here in this post, we’ll show you a few easy tricks you can do to tweak your Firefox browser faster and better, it’ll only take you about two minutes to do 
We have found two ways to do this, both should equally speed up your Firefox in the same way.
Method #1
According to MoreMerchant, by default, Firefox is optimized for dialup connections and not broadband, therefore the following steps will help you change your Firefox for the better:
1. Type ?about:config? into the address bar and hit return. Type ?network.http? in the filter field, and change the following settings (double-click on them to change them):
2. Set ?network.http.pipelining? to ?true?
3. Set ?network.http.proxy.pipelining? to ?true?
4. Set ?network.http.pipelining.maxrequests? to 30. This will allow it to make 30 requests at one time. Originally I tried 100 here and it didn?t seem to help. When I went with 30 I noticed an improvement.
5. Right-click anywhere and select New-> Integer. Name it ?nglayout.initialpaint.delay? and set its value to ?0?. This value is the amount of time the browser waits before it acts on information it receives.
Method #2 following after the break (reading method #2 is advised before performing method #1)… Continue reading »
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If you’re a Firefox user who’s into reading your feeds of Google reader, then you’ll love this little add-on. Google Reader Notifier 0.35 automatically shows you how many unread subscribed posts you have directly from your Google account into the corner of your browser.
