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SecretMethod70 · 01-04-2005, 06:31 AM

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Originally Posted by mikec

I saw that thread. Since I'm the type who likes to see what changes are being made, I thought a new thread that detailed changes to be made was more appropriate than just applying a patch that you aren't really sure what it's doing.

Then did you see this post by ratbastid?....

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Well, from reading that thread, it sounds like his patch makes Firefox connect to the remote server multiple times--possibly as much as one connection per item to download from the server

Usually the browser opens one connection to the server, downloads the HTML file that is the page, then starts sucking down files referred to in that page--images, javascript files, stylesheets, etc. through that same connection. Evidently his patch makes Firefox download those files simultaneously rather than one at a time.

In theory, this should speed up page rendering dramatically. But there's a reason Firefox doesn't do that by default--it's pretty rude to the remote server. If every browser did this, it wouldn't take many people surfing the site to max out the server.

or by jonjon42...

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I think it's kinda rude to remote servers (I have one myself) and hope it doesn't catch on too much. It provides a headache for admins and may get you blacklisted.