On Tuesday 11 December 2007 08:46, Florent Daigni?re wrote: > * Matthew Toseland <toad at amphibian.dyndns.org> [2007-12-11 01:29:09]: > > > On Tuesday 11 December 2007 01:21, Matthew Toseland wrote: > > > I've done some usability testing with a local newbie volunteer. The main > > > conclusions: > > > > > ... > > > > > > 5. Firefox is not optimised for Freenet: it has too few parallel > > connections, > > > this significantly slows down browsing Freenet, especially if a smart user > > > starts opening stuff in new tabs... This is a major problem, but I'm not > > sure > > > what we can do about it. It's mentioned in the README (well the 0.5 readme > > at > > > least), but who reads it? > > > > > I wonder if it would be possible to auto-detect this... We could detect how > > many parallel connections the browser is using, but the problem is an HTTP > > compliant browser should pipeline requests, (which few do), and use very few > > connections per server (which firefox does)... ideally we'd have a plugin, > > which could certainly be detected, but then people start exchanging raw > > freenet: url's and compatibility gets to be a pain... > > What about finishing my test toadlet ?
Good idea. We could maybe include this in the installation wizard? If you can see the green icon, click on it, otherwise we will explain how to reconfigure your browser and retest ? > > http://localhost:8888/test/ > > NextGen$ -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: not available URL: <https://emu.freenetproject.org/pipermail/devl/attachments/20071211/6a4c8579/attachment.pgp>
