Speed Firefox up

[docevi1]

Holy Christ does Firefox fly with this patch installed.

It works by enabling pipelining which means multiple downloads per connection which if widely used could start to mean that fewer users use the available bandwidth/sec but on the flip side you don't use as much of the servers time because you suddenly are getting pages much quicker!

Damn, I can't keep up now!

edit:: cos I'm an idiot who forgot to put a link in the post

>>> Edited by docevi1 on Monday 6th December 22:20

[FourWheelDrift]

que?

[coopergreen]

Please post the link....

[docevi1]

ever feel like an idiot?

http://bot2k3.net/forum/?showtopic=2840

[JonRB]

Hmmm. Looks dodgy to me.

I think I'll wait for a while and see how web admins react to it. As someone pointed out, it could make you unpopular and even get your IP address blocked.

[PetrolTed]

[TUS 373]

Downloaded it an hour ago, and yes, does make FF faster than ever. If its good, it must be illegal.

[TheExcession]

JonRB said:

it could make you unpopular and even get your IP address blocked.

Unlikely - would take some very close analysis of the server logs to detect -for example - this is not much different to having nnn PCs sat behind a NAT'd Firewall with everyone looking at the same site.

Seems it's just upping the number of TCP connections that the browser hits to the web site. I think IE normally limits this to four connections per site.

Not sure how it runs with the HTTP Keepalive option where by the same TCP connection is used to request all the elements for the page - the idea being that you don't have to jump the hoops of setting up TCP for each page item.

Certainly makes a huge differencr on my satlink where latency is a real issue:

Pinging www.pistonheads.com [195.225.218.139] with 32 bytes of data:

Reply from 195.225.218.139: bytes=32 time=1125ms TTL=243
Request timed out.
Reply from 195.225.218.139: bytes=32 time=531ms TTL=243
Reply from 195.225.218.139: bytes=32 time=1063ms TTL=243

Ping statistics for 195.225.218.139:
Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 3, Lost = 1 (25% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 531ms, Maximum = 1125ms, Average = 679ms


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>> Edited by TheExcession on Tuesday 7th December 10:22

[docevi1]

TheExcession said:

Not sure how it runs with the HTTP Keepalive option where by the same TCP connection is used to request all the elements for the page - the idea being that you don't have to jump the hoops of setting up TCP for each page item.

That is the one thing I was wondering as well, still proof in the pudding as it were and it appears to be much faster to load a page than before so all is good for me at present (not sure on other servers mind).

[FourWheelDrift]

anyone run this (installed) and also run it again to uninstall it to test it?

[docevi1]

I've just tried to "uninstall" it, and it appears to do nothing

Certainly makes a difference installing it mind.

[m-five]

ARSE - PC '.exe. installer!

Quote "Q) Which versions of Firefox does this patch? - A) All of them", if it's on a PC!

[size13]

There has been a hack for IE to this for years.

[docevi1]

FourWheelDrift said:

anyone run this (installed) and also run it again to uninstall it to test it?

After the post by someone else on the manual way to do it using about:config, it turns out I had turned it back off after all and haven't been using it at all

this post : www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?t=148856&f=95&h=0

>> Edited by docevi1 on Thursday 13th January 16:28

[andygo]

size13 said:

There has been a hack for IE to this for years.

Where'n how please?