Andrew Lentvorski wrote:
Ralph Shumaker wrote:
Way back when I was running whendoze (around 10 years ago), I had a
shareware program called File Hound. One of the many features that I
liked about that program is that if I had it running while browsing
the internet, and I right click on something and choose "copy link
location", File Hound would take it from there and fetch the object
of that link, in the background, while I continued surfing. It even
cached subsequent links and got to them as soon as it could.
IIRC, FasterFox had an "aggressive" setting that would do this.
This kind of aggressive prefetching is frowned upon for a couple of
reasons. The primary one is that it consumes a lot of server
bandwidth that the user quite often doesn't follow up. Basically, if
everybody starts prefetching, your bandwidth goes up 10x with no
increase in anything else which would help you pay for it.
Some sites started monitoring it and would actually block your IP for
a few minutes if they detected you doing it.
Prefetching is *not* what I want. Ever since tabbed browsing came
along, *that* serves my prefetching needs, usually quite nicely
(especially when I was still on dialup service).
Even before tabbed browsing came along, multiple windows of Mozilla
simultaneously loading links I middle clicked on while I continued
reading the current page was way kewl.
I want a way to cut a few steps for saving images that are already on my
screen. The main thing I want to eliminate is the lag time of the
dialog which doesn't let me choose Save until after it has finished
reading the entire directory listing (thousands of files, and growing).
The second step I would like to eliminate is the dialog that pops up
when it discovers that I already have the file.
Ideally, I could have something behaving like File Hound, running in the
background, monitoring the clipboard for any URL, snatching it from the
clipboard, and downloading it. IIRC, File Hound had the option to over
write an existing file, save to some incremented name, or skip
duplicates. In this case, I would choose to skip duplicates.
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