[Fasterfox] FasterFox feature request

[Tony Gentilcore]

Hi Johnny,

Thanks for taking the time to write, this is one of the most well thought
out and best suggestions I've gotten, and I really appreciate you taking the
time to put this together.

1.  The FAQ here
(http://fasterfox.mozdev.org/faq.html#Can_prefetching_mess_things_up)
explains that only files with the extension .htm, .html, .txt, .pdf, .gif,
.jpg, and .png are prefetched.  I intentionally limited it to static content
only because prefetching dynamic pages such as .asp and .jsp can lead to
undesired results such as emptying a shopping cart or logging the user out
of a webpage. See specific answers below:

[sx]?[h]?tm[l]? - does .htm and .html cover this?
Xht - never heard of it, guess I should do some research
Gif - prefetched 
jp[e]?[g]? - jpg is prefetched, but I guess I should add jpeg
.png - prefetched
.css - this doesn't seem necessary as .css are usually loaded by the page
automatically
.js - could potentially lead to undesired results
.txt - prefetched
.xml - should be added
urls without extensions - this is one of the most dangerous, many logout
links are just "http://www.site.com/logout"
.jsp - dynamic 
.asp - dynamic
.svg, .svgz - not real familiar with these, do you think it would add much
benefit?
.asc - never heard of it
.txt - prefetched
.text - will add

2.  This is the current behavior
3.  See #1
4.  Current behavior is to add all links to queue to be prefetched.
Prefetching only occurs in the background after the current page is loaded,
so I don't see why the user would want to limit it to less than 100%.
Please try to convince me if I'm missing something.
5.  See #4
6.  Not sure I understand - can you elaborate.

Again, thanks for your email; the immediate action I'm going to take is to
add .jpeg, .text, and .xml to the list of prefetched extension.  As far as
your other suggestions, I'll wait to hear back from you.

Tony



-----Original Message-----
From: fasterfox-bounces at mozdev.org [mailto:fasterfox-bounces at mozdev.org] On
Behalf Of Johnathon Weare
Sent: Tuesday, October 18, 2005 6:40 PM
To: fasterfox at mozdev.org
Subject: [Fasterfox] FasterFox feature request

Hi,

great extension!

now that I've switched to Fasterfox, I've dropped the extension Tweak
Network, and my own Greasemonkey script for prefetching.

I have a couple of feature requests from what I miss in my prefetching:

1. prefetching extensions extended to
[sx]?[h]?tm[l]?, xht, gif, jp[e]?[g]?, .png, .css, .js, .txt, .xml,
urls without extensions, .jsp, .asp, .svg, .svgz, .asc, .txt, .text

2. prefetching allowed *only* on urls (from and to)
http://
(i.e. no https, no ftp)

3. no prefetching from urls containing (from and to)
? cgi-bin

and fancy stuff:

4. user selectable % of links to prefetch 0-100% (preset at say 60%),
combined with max links per page = 20

5. random link selection (needed for 4.)

6. random timers on link download

I know you might have some of these already but found none of them
listed in the documentation. I think it would be nice to document the
prefetching rules explicitly so users know what they're downloading.

hope this helps

regards Johnny


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