FireFox and Netscape browser enhancements
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FireFox and Netscape browser enhancements
I ran accross these hacks or tweaks for Netscape and FireFox users that can greatly speed up its loading of pages. By default pipelining is disabled on both of these browsers so it loads data streams one at a time when building a page but if you have a braodband connection and enable it it can make pages load noticably faster. You will find instructions in the link below on how to easily apply these tweaks if you are interested in trying it. I use it and it makes pages load almost instantly here at times. Enjoy.
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This has been a menu item in Opera for quite some time. 8 is the max I'd set it to.
Don't change the number to 16 or 32, you'll find your IP auto-banned from FTE when you slam the server each time you fetch a page. Using those instructions creates a very server unfriendly browser. Firefox users rarely stop to realize their tweaks have an impact on the sites they browse. For instance, we block Firefox page pre-fetching.
Don't change the number to 16 or 32, you'll find your IP auto-banned from FTE when you slam the server each time you fetch a page. Using those instructions creates a very server unfriendly browser. Firefox users rarely stop to realize their tweaks have an impact on the sites they browse. For instance, we block Firefox page pre-fetching.
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Originally Posted by webmaster
This has been a menu item in Opera for quite some time. 8 is the max I'd set it to.
Don't change the number to 16 or 32, you'll find your IP auto-banned from FTE when you slam the server each time you fetch a page. Using those instructions creates a very server unfriendly browser. Firefox users rarely stop to realize their tweaks have an impact on the sites they browse. For instance, we block Firefox page pre-fetching.
Don't change the number to 16 or 32, you'll find your IP auto-banned from FTE when you slam the server each time you fetch a page. Using those instructions creates a very server unfriendly browser. Firefox users rarely stop to realize their tweaks have an impact on the sites they browse. For instance, we block Firefox page pre-fetching.
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Originally Posted by The SnoMan
This mod does not do anything to prefetch settings,
Hitting our server with 16 or 32 requests at once, when it can only handle a finite number at a given time is not server friendly.
Your logic doesn't taken into account that it takes CPU cycles to spawn additional server threads and requires more RAM (which even at 4 gig is a limited resource that is best used for disk caching). If a client uses a limited number of connections and reuses them with the HTTP 1.1 protocol the server load is much lower. I've seen both types of crawling with Yahoo and Google crawlers and the load is lower when they reuse connections verses having more of them.
ISP pre-fetching is a non-issue to FTE, we block that as well, as well as set headers that avoid public pooling of pages by an ISP (allowing it would be a minor security issue with forum logins). We do allow ISP pooling of images.
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