Talk:Perceived Performance

3. Scrolling performance:

There are also some scrolling techniques developed by HCI academics. Orthozoom is an example were horizontal movements on a vertical scrollbar control the zoom of the page: [1]

The paper contains a bibliography of scrolling techniques published before 2006: [2] [3]

Back and Forward

Why is it that there is a delay in going back and forward and there is no delay in switching tabs?

Startup Comments

I personally would not like Firefox to add itself to the startup programs. The most annoying thing about Adobe and Java's Runtime environment is that they do that.

Also, please review the discussions of the splash screen when Firefox was first being developed - I imagine they are still relevant today.