Date: Sat, 23 Dec 2006 19:43:21 +0000
From: "Matthew Hanson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: [LIB] Lib slow loading WWW content w/broadband
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From: David Chien <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Easy ways?
1) Run Opera. Small, light, fast. And you can use one-key to turn off
images, javascripting, etc.
2) Run Firefox, SeaMonkey, etc. + PrefBar. Add the checkboxes to let you
turn
on/off images/javascript/flash/popups/cookies/referer. Voila! Instant
adjustments on the fly, and you can surf a lot faster with lots of
unnecessaries turned off.
So what are you using David? I've tried tweaking Firefox and didn't really
get much improvement in terms of the time needed to load pages.
Here's what I'm seeing running IE6 & W98SE:
40 seconds to load this search:
http://search.ebay.com/search/search.dll?cgiurl=http%3A%2F%2Fcgi.ebay.com%2Fws%2F&fkr=1&from=R8&satitle=garmin+streetpilot+gps&category0=
65-75 seconds to load to load this auction from the search results above:
http://cgi.ebay.com/GARMIN-STREETPILOT-2620-GPS-V7-MAP-TALKING-BONUS-CASE_W0QQitemZ140067338415QQihZ004QQcategoryZ94872QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem
That was with a IE6 windows sized to the left with the clock on the right.
And waiting until IE reports the last 'Done' on the status bar, and the
scroll bar is finally released for the last time to scroll freely.
I even cleared the IE cache of cookies and temp files before several tests,
and found that there wasn't any difference between the time needed to load
the same URL with the caches files deleted, or leaving them in place and
just backing up and coming back to the page using IE's 'Back' and 'Forward'
buttons.
I thought the whole idea of caching Inet files from way back in the MOSAIC
days, was to speed up the process of loading web pages by creating pointers
to site files that had previously been accessed. I guess the complexity of
the javascripts, Java, Flash and everything else that was developed
subsequently has left our libby's '233MHz and less' CPUs pretty much in the
dust in this era of 2-4GHz CPUs and high speed Inet access.
Matt
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