On 7 Jul 2009, at 11:05, Grant wrote:
I need to optimize web browsing for a slow cell phone data
connection.
I'd like to browse faster and use less data ($). I've installed
ImgLikeOpera for Firefox which is great at selectively blocking
images, and I'm wondering if there's anything else I can do?
- Grant
Can anyone offer advice for IMAP? I'm using Thunderbird and it's slow
and data-heavy.
I believe that the nature of IMAP is to be fairly network intensive.
When I use my laptop for mail, it usually takes some time to sync
messages that have appeared in the last couple of days since I last
did so (on my laptop). Typically contents of the inbox appear within a
minute or two, but I would guess that clicking on any of my mailing
list folders may cause a delay of several minutes.
It's not the raw number of minutes that's the problem, but how the
mail client just tends to feel sluggish unless you leave it alone for
a few minutes to sync up with the IMAP server. One _knows_ there are
new messages there, one knows that there should be messages in the
gentoo-users folder newer than 4 days old, but they don't appear when
you click on it.
In my case I'm always on broadband when I use my laptop away from
home, my mailserver is at my house, and the bandwidth bottleneck is
the upstream of my home ADSL line at 288k. I would dread to think what
it would be like at dial-up speeds (i.e. slow cell phone data
connection), although to be fair my mobile does ok syncing inboxes
only. The solution with that, too, is to leave the phone alone,
downloading for some minutes, and then come back to it when it's
finished.
I use Mail.app on a Mac as my mail client, but I can't imagine
Thunderbird to be much worse.
Stroller.
