FireFox <3

Stormraven · September 24th, 2008, 08:41 AM

there is an add-on to firefox called fasterfox but its not for version 3, ive heard that there is a newer version, its not in the addon's list so i was just wondering if anyone knows where i can find it, ive searched google

Rob · September 24th, 2008, 10:04 AM

Try this....
http://rdc.untamed.co.uk/fastererfox/

Stormraven · September 24th, 2008, 10:42 AM

It hardly makes a difference, how can i get it to go faster

It's already set to turbo charge and hasnt made any difference

Aso · September 24th, 2008, 01:16 PM

How fast is your connection? What's the spec of your computer? What are you using to measure 'speed'?

Rob · September 24th, 2008, 04:51 PM

fasterfox works by reading ahead when you visit a site.

Visit a blog and sit there and read the front page....

By the time you are done, fasterfox would have cached many of the other pages so when you click around the site it loads quicker.

BTW.... do not use webforumz.com as a benchmark. To protect our bandwidth, we have blocked fasterfox from doing this on our site.

Stormraven · September 24th, 2008, 11:06 PM

What do you mean about that thing using bandwith? there is a new option in Fasterfox that says: force preloading even against webmasters wishes ;S ive got that ticked i wasnt sure was it was supposed to do lol.

Rob · September 25th, 2008, 03:52 AM

oh boy.... great, an over-ride.

Stormraven · September 25th, 2008, 03:06 PM

Yep, there is an over-ride unfortunetly

Jack Franklin · September 25th, 2008, 04:15 PM

Christ, that should be banned that option.

Rob · September 25th, 2008, 04:50 PM

i'll watch for it.... any user leaching LOADS of bandwidth will be banned by IP... lol

Stormraven · September 25th, 2008, 09:59 PM

So then rob is this a nice way of saying untick the option or else

hehe. how would it use more bandwidth? i dont understand, would it make much difference to the speed if that option was kept ticked?

Rob · September 26th, 2008, 10:32 AM

stormraven.... surely you are aware that every time you load a webpage it costs the webmaster some bandwidth (to transfer the data). Therefore, if your little fasterfox is loading lots of webpages into it's cache (webpages you'll prolly not ever see) then you are just leeching bandwidth.... most of it for no reason.

Fasterfox is evil and the software developers have obviously lost all sight of their morals. Including a way to block fasterfox in your robots.txt was a public show of devotion to helping both users, and webmasters (who wanted to opt out of this).... They then go and shoot themselves in the foot and backtrack from their moral beginnings with a damn override option..... shame on them.

Can we now have another robots.txt option to block the over-ride option? This is damn stupid..... how would webmasters feel if other robots ignored robots.txt (googlebot for instance).... I tell you there would be hell on.

Fasterfox started so well...... and then plummeted in just about every webmasters estimation as soon as they provided the over-ride..... hardly sensible really was it guys. Oh well....

Stormraven · September 26th, 2008, 03:12 PM

Yes rob i am aware of that mate, i think it was early in the morning when i wrote that lol.

its not really fair on the webmaster really.