From alaupub at yahoo.com Wed Feb 1 16:04:25 2006 From: alaupub at yahoo.com (Adam Lau) Date: Wed Feb 1 19:05:53 2006 Subject: [Fasterfox] Lightning Download 1.6 Message-ID: <20060202000426.48478.qmail@web50401.mail.yahoo.com> 1. From devs of GetRight. I wish to use the executable "tolightning.exe" as opposed to "lightning.exe" (much like togetright.exe vs. getright.exe) as "tolightning.exe" is much smaller and faster. If executable path is set to "tolightning.exe", no downloads are performed. No problems with "lightning.exe". How to configure FlashGot to use "tolightning.exe" (FlashGot has GetRight option to "Use togetright.exe whenever it is possible")? 2. Which placeholders to add in arguments template? Should I add them all? Adam Lau Public @Yahoo! __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com From pichu0102 at gmail.com Wed Feb 1 15:14:45 2006 From: pichu0102 at gmail.com (Daniel Metzger) Date: Thu Feb 9 10:14:38 2006 Subject: [Fasterfox] Turning off Fasterfox on certain domains? Message-ID: How do I have Fasterfox turn off on certain domains that seem to have problems with it enabled, yet keep it on for domains that work? -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mozdev.org/pipermail/fasterfox/attachments/20060201/349bf9c6/attachment-0001.htm From brianherman at gmail.com Wed Feb 1 20:44:44 2006 From: brianherman at gmail.com (brian) Date: Thu Feb 9 10:14:41 2006 Subject: [Fasterfox] Google Acclererator and Faster Fox Message-ID: <43E1721C.7010901@gmail.com> Does google accelerator work well with faster fox? From hfromm at earthlink.net Thu Feb 2 19:47:16 2006 From: hfromm at earthlink.net (Harold Fromm) Date: Thu Feb 9 10:14:42 2006 Subject: [Fasterfox] Trouble Message-ID: <7.0.1.0.0.20060202194627.0194a380@earthlink.net> Hello--I just let Firefox download an update to its latest version but it removed Fasterfox in the process. I then downloaded Fasterfox-1.0.3-fx.xpi from some site or other but Windows won't recognize that type of extension. I then found Firefox's site and clicked on the download you offer but nothing downloads. What has happened? Harold Fromm From Tools at pollux.com Sat Feb 4 07:20:05 2006 From: Tools at pollux.com (Tools@pollux.com) Date: Thu Feb 9 10:14:44 2006 Subject: [Fasterfox] Firefox 1.5 install Message-ID: <43E4C625.6020301@pollux.com> I installed FasterFox, then closed and re-opened Firefox, but couldn't find any sign of it. Where is the control panel to make the tweaks? Thanks, J.R. From simon at 16hz.net Sat Feb 4 15:57:58 2006 From: simon at 16hz.net (Simon Morgan) Date: Thu Feb 9 10:14:46 2006 Subject: [Fasterfox] Options Window Height Message-ID: <20060204155758.1187eb7e.simon@16hz.net> Hi, The height of the options window is not big enough to accomodate the OK and Cancel buttons using the default Firefox theme under GNU/Linux. See: http://16hz.net/~simon/fasterfox.png Posted here instead of the bug tracker 'cause I'm tired of signing up for Bugzilla accounts. CC me on any replies as I'm not subscribed. -- A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? From ibrahim.blakemore at yahoo.co.uk Sun Feb 5 14:18:48 2006 From: ibrahim.blakemore at yahoo.co.uk (Ibrahim Blakemore) Date: Thu Feb 9 10:14:50 2006 Subject: [Fasterfox] initialpaint/submenu settings Message-ID: <43E60948.60906@yahoo.co.uk> What would you recommend me to set the 'initialpaint' and 'submenu' settings at? I thought '0', but someone else said between 500 and 100. Also, I seem to be having trouble making Fasterfox save my settings - it's stuck on 'turbo charged' with 'enable prefetching' disabled - I can put the dot in another preset or set at custom, and check the 'enable prefetching' box, but when I close 'options' the settings return to what they were. The only setting which I can chage is to enable/disable the status bar display. Regards, Ibrahim ___________________________________________________________ NEW Yahoo! Cars - sell your car and browse thousands of new and used cars online! http://uk.cars.yahoo.com/ From janne.terava at sci.fi Mon Feb 6 01:03:57 2006 From: janne.terava at sci.fi (=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Janne_Ter=E4v=E4?=) Date: Thu Feb 9 10:14:52 2006 Subject: [Fasterfox] Enhanced Prefetching doesn't seem to work Message-ID: <43E6845D.8000203@sci.fi> I'm using Firefox 1.5.0.1 & Fasterfox 1.0.3 (Windows 2000 SP4), but even when I enable Enhanced Prefetching (Options/Fasterfox/Enable Enhanced Prefetching) it doesn't seem to work. I've tried various websites with no dynamic content, but there's no traffic when idle (there's no competing traffic from any application either). Loading any page with the Enhanced Prefetching setting enabled or disabled causes the same amount of bytes transferred and when the page is loaded, no further traffic occurs (using different Fasterfox presets seem to make no difference). Then clicking on any of the links on that page will cause the same amount of bytes transferred regardless of the enabled/disabled status of the Enhanced Prefetching setting. Is there something I'm missing? From byster at optonline.net Mon Feb 6 15:29:36 2006 From: byster at optonline.net (byster) Date: Thu Feb 9 10:14:55 2006 Subject: [Fasterfox] Cannot load Message-ID: <000801c62b5c$0c64dc40$6600a8c0@Desktop> Hi, I had Firefox 1.5 with Fasterfox working just fine until I updated to Firefox 1.5.1. Now I can't load Fasterfox 1.0.3 because I get the "software installation disabled...click edit options,try again" bar across the top and when I open the edit options there are no options to enable software downloading. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks. Tony -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mozdev.org/pipermail/fasterfox/attachments/20060206/97c9c05a/attachment.htm From storymonitor at gmail.com Tue Feb 7 01:00:56 2006 From: storymonitor at gmail.com (Story Monitor) Date: Thu Feb 9 10:14:58 2006 Subject: [Fasterfox] Prefetching isn't the only problem for webmasters - pipelining is evil too Message-ID: I'm sure you've had endless complaints from webmasters about the problems prefetching causes for webservers. I've had to block it completely on my site - assuming you can use the file extension to detect what is and what isn't dynamic content is not reliable, and in some extreme cases it was downloading 500 php pages from my site per real user hit. However, at least you provide a way for us to disable this feature from the server. The second major problem your extension causes I cannot see a way for webmasters to mitigate: Allowing / encouraging unrestricted pipelining is going to cause denial of service issues if several people use this extension on a site. Apache has a server variable MaxClients which limits the maximum number of simultaneous connections the server can support. Webmasters cannot set this too high especially if the site serves database-driven dynamic content, otherwise Apache could easily consume all the resources on the machine. The default is 256 and it is impossible to increase this without editing the source code and recompiling Apache. However, you can and people often do reduce if via the httpd.conf configuration file. On my site I've reduced it to 100 as the site is highly database dependent. Like most webmasters, in order to provide good performance to visitors, I have keep-alives enabled on the server, in my case with a 7 second timeout, but the default is 15. However, your extension allows users to set ridiculously high levels of pipelining. Unless I'm not reading your documentation correctly, this means if anyone using this extension hits a page with 40 images, and they have their pipelining set to 40 or more, FireFox will make 40 connections to the server, consuming 25% of the available connection capacity. It will then after receiving those images continue to hold those 40 connections open for the default 15 second keep-alive period. By allowing users (who for the most part assume higher = better even if the documentation says otherwise) to make such changes you will force webmasters to disable keep-alives in order to keep their sites running, which has an overall negative impact on the server performance. There was a good reason why Microsoft hardcoded IE to 2 simultaneous requests rather than making it a registry setting that could be tweaked. With your default setting of 8 piplined requests, all it will take is 32 visitors to completely fill all slots on a standard Apache server and provide a denial of service whilst the server sits idle for the keep-alive period, unless there is something your not mentioning in the documentation about the way pipeling works with keep-alive requests? At a minimum you should set an upper limit on how high users can set the pipeling. You should also disable sending keep-alive headers on any additional connections after the first if you don't already do this. If you have already catered for this, you should mention it somewhere on the FAQ. If anyone knows of a way to limit the maximum connections per IP address in apache, please reply. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Name: not available Type: image/gif Size: 20284 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://mozdev.org/pipermail/fasterfox/attachments/20060209/45a68f57/attachment-0007.gif From oscar_672 at yahoo.co.uk Fri Feb 10 09:27:29 2006 From: oscar_672 at yahoo.co.uk (Oscar Bravo) Date: Fri Feb 10 04:28:29 2006 Subject: [Fasterfox] Prefetching isn't the only problem for webmasters -pipelining is evil too Message-ID: <20060210092729.3267.qmail@web25015.mail.ukl.yahoo.com> > -----Original Message----- > From: fasterfox-bounces@mozdev.org > [mailto:fasterfox-bounces@mozdev.org] On Behalf Of Story Monitor > Sent: Dienstag, 7. Februar 2006 02:01 > To: fasterfox@mozdev.org > Subject: [Fasterfox] Prefetching isn't the only problem for > webmasters -pipelining is evil too > > I'm sure you've had endless complaints from webmasters about > the problems prefetching causes for webservers. +1 to that... I'm not opposed to the idea of prefetching and I'm sure it's useful for users on a dial-up. But if the pre-fetcher is amateurishly configured a single visitor hitting the homepage can seem like a denial-of-service attack! Here's a list of some things to fix in FasterFox: - Absolutely obey robots.txt. Just because it's a browser extension doesn't make it human! FF walks like a robot and quacks like a robot so it's a robot... Therefore it *must* obey robots.txt. To ignore this gentleman's standard is churlish in the extreme... - Don't assume a .html/.csv/.txt/.png/.gif etc. extension means static content. Many advanced webservers nowadays are configured to match the file extension with the mime-type - irrespective of how the resource is generated. This is especially true of site built with Cocoon, where URL and filesystem are completely decoupled. - Don't allow users to specify number of concurrent connections or submit frequency. Hard-code a one-by-one rule (ie, request link, wait until it's loaded, request the next link, etc.) The user is going to read the page after all, so you do have time. And if he just immediately clicks on a link, prefetching can't help him anyway since he's likely clicked before the prefetcher. Rgds, Oscar > I've had to > block it completely on my site - assuming you can use the > file extension to detect what is and what isn't dynamic > content is not reliable, and in some extreme cases it was > downloading 500 php pages from my site per real user hit. > However, at least you provide a way for us to disable this > feature from the server. > > The second major problem your extension causes I cannot see a > way for webmasters to mitigate: Allowing / encouraging > unrestricted pipelining is going to cause denial of service > issues if several people use this extension on a site. > > Apache has a server variable MaxClients which limits the > maximum number of simultaneous connections the server can > support. Webmasters cannot set this too high especially if > the site serves database-driven dynamic content, otherwise > Apache could easily consume all the resources on the machine. > The default is 256 and it is impossible to increase this > without editing the source code and recompiling Apache. > However, you can and people often do reduce if via the > httpd.conf configuration file. On my site I've reduced it to > 100 as the site is highly database dependent. > > Like most webmasters, in order to provide good performance to > visitors, I have keep-alives enabled on the server, in my > case with a 7 second timeout, but the default is 15. However, > your extension allows users to set ridiculously high levels > of pipelining. Unless I'm not reading your documentation > correctly, this means if anyone using this extension hits a > page with 40 images, and they have their pipelining set to 40 > or more, FireFox will make 40 connections to the server, > consuming 25% of the available connection capacity. It will > then after receiving those images continue to hold those 40 > connections open for the default 15 second keep-alive period. > By allowing users (who for the most part assume higher = > better even if the documentation says otherwise) to make such > changes you will force webmasters to disable keep-alives in > order to keep their sites running, which has an overall > negative impact on the server performance. There was a good > reason why Microsoft hardcoded IE to 2 simultaneous requests > rather than making it a registry setting that could be tweaked. > > With your default setting of 8 piplined requests, all it will > take is 32 visitors to completely fill all slots on a > standard Apache server and provide a denial of service whilst > the server sits idle for the keep-alive period, unless there > is something your not mentioning in the documentation about > the way pipeling works with keep-alive requests? At a minimum > you should set an upper limit on how high users can set the > pipeling. You should also disable sending keep-alive headers > on any additional connections after the first if you don't > already do this. If you have already catered for this, you > should mention it somewhere on the FAQ. > > If anyone knows of a way to limit the maximum connections per > IP address in apache, please reply. > > > > > > > > > > ___________________________________________________________ Yahoo! Messenger - NEW crystal clear PC to PC calling worldwide with voicemail http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com From mertsch at gmail.com Fri Feb 17 01:20:39 2006 From: mertsch at gmail.com (Mertsch) Date: Thu Feb 16 19:21:28 2006 Subject: [Fasterfox] suggestion Message-ID: <43F516D7.6000106@gmail.com> Hey, I just stepped on this http://www.techspot.com/tweaks/firefox/firefox-7.shtml " * browser.cache.memory.capacity* (*Integer*). This preference does *not *control how much RAM may be used by Firefox's memory cache; rather it sets the amount of RAM, in KB, which Firefox will / attempt/ to reduce memory usage to whenever possible, e.g. after closing windows/tabs. In the address bar type * about:cache*. Memory cache device *Number of entries:* 40 * Maximum storage size:* 31744 KiB * Storage in use:* 34926 KiB * Inactive storage:* 0 KiB As you can see, the *Storage in use* clearly exceeds the *Maximum storage size*. Upon closing windows/tabs however, Firefox will attempt to reduce memory usage to the value specified (This will depend on how image intensive the window/tab closed was). When set to *-1* Firefox will determine this value based on RAM. Otherwise you should try browsing as normal and checking *about:cache* to check how the * Storage is use* value compares to the *Maximum storage size* and try adjusting accordingly. Again, understand that Firefox will exceed this value if required; you can only merely determine how aggressively it will attempt to free unneeded cached data from RAM. You are probably better off setting this to *-1* rather than specifying a value. " So, you may reconsider how this tweak should be implemented You also might consider adding this tweak *" config.trim_on_minimize* (*Boolean*). Setting this to *true* specifies that Firefox can be swapped out of memory when minimized. This is common practice for Applications (Freeing RAM for active/foreground processes), although as discussed in Bug 76831 , Firefox can become highly unresponsive when attempting to bring it to the foreground again. This is compounded by multiple other memory related bugs in Firefox. As such you might find it best to set this to *false* to /disable/ such swapping. " which really help to keep FF running fluidly when minimizing it for a long time. greets -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mozdev.org/pipermail/fasterfox/attachments/20060217/792bc95c/attachment.htm From jeshua1216 at cwpanama.net Sun Feb 19 23:20:53 2006 From: jeshua1216 at cwpanama.net (Omar Upegui R.) Date: Sun Feb 19 23:22:14 2006 Subject: [Fasterfox] Fasterfox For Flock DP 0.5 - Version 0.5.11 Message-ID: <43F943A5.4010504@cwpanama.net> Today I tried to download and install /Fasterfox/ for *Flock* web browser version *0.5.11* - *Developer's Preview 0.5* with no joy. Are you planning to release Fasterfox for Flock's latest build? Thank you in advance for your answer, Omar.- -- Omar Upegui R. P.O. Box 019-2817, El Dorado Panama, Republic of Panama E-Mail: epiac1216@yahoo.com Get Firefox! "Attitude not aptitude determines your altitude." Zig Ziglar -------------- next part -------------- Skipped content of type multipart/related