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January 02, 2006, 04:03:54 PM
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Tooky

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http://fasterfox.mozdev.org/

hey check it out yo!

 I tried it, seems to be going faster, you can read on the documentation to find out what it does and how. It has this little page timer in the bottom right corner to show how much time it took to generate the page.

The popup blocker setting also work better with this.

January 03, 2006, 12:33:08 AM
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I will try this on my friends computer now
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January 03, 2006, 09:49:39 AM
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January 03, 2006, 09:43:01 PM
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Turning on FasterFox's prefetching made Firefox lock up. Not cool.

Turning it off helped.

January 03, 2006, 10:25:43 PM
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It didn't make my browsing noticeably faster, but at least now I have something to occupy myself with while waiting for pages to load: the time counter :)
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January 04, 2006, 08:47:03 PM
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awaiting the blackmage seal of nerddom approval

January 05, 2006, 12:00:11 AM
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Doesn't seem to do much more than give me an easier way to tweak a lot of the stuff I already tweaked, although I haven't tried it yet. This does put me off a bit though:
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silently loading and caching all of the links on the page you are browsing.
Always fun if I ever decide to go to a website full of ads.

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January 05, 2006, 01:51:45 PM
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oh god, not fasterfox.

this works like that google web make-fastar thing earlier and does things almost as stupid.

it tries to download everything linked on a page before you click on it so it can load from cache instead of downloading. while this sounds good, it annoys server operators to no end because the bandwidth overhead it generates is comparable in size only to an xbox. also, it's likely to get you banned from any corner of the internet that has an anti-bot rule (used to keep rippers, spiders and harvesters out)

tl;dr: stop all the downloadin'

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awaiting the blackmage seal of nerddom approval
[snapback]54726[/snapback]
more like "help your local (or remote) sysop by uninstalling"

ps: prefetch fails the big one. doubly so if someone forgot to set rel="nofollow" on the "delete everything" button.
« Last Edit: January 05, 2006, 01:54:29 PM by Black Mage »

January 05, 2006, 09:08:33 PM
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oh god, not fasterfox.

this works like that google web make-fastar thing earlier and does things almost as stupid.

it tries to download everything linked on a page before you click on it so it can load from cache instead of downloading. while this sounds good, it annoys server operators to no end because the bandwidth overhead it generates is comparable in size only to an xbox. also, it's likely to get you banned from any corner of the internet that has an anti-bot rule (used to keep rippers, spiders and harvesters out)

tl;dr: stop all the downloadin'

edit:
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awaiting the blackmage seal of nerddom approval
[snapback]54726[/snapback]
more like "help your local (or remote) sysop by uninstalling"

ps: prefetch fails the big one. doubly so if someone forgot to set rel="nofollow" on the "delete everything" button.
[snapback]54746[/snapback]


aha! blackmage denied.

January 06, 2006, 11:49:52 AM
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Turning off pre-fetching then :D
« Last Edit: January 06, 2006, 11:50:30 AM by 2_of_8 »
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January 07, 2006, 11:08:06 AM
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pre-fetching is already turned off; if you check the load timer and right click it, go to options and click FasterFox tab, you see that Enhanced Prefetching is not enabled

January 07, 2006, 11:11:20 AM
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But then I turned it on.

And then I turned it off, per suggestion.
Where lipstick is concerned, the important thing is not color, but to accept God's final word on where your lips end. - Jerry Seinfeld