An unashamed plug for my two apps - doesn't help netsurf though. Newsuk and weatheruk pull the data off the BBC. Available on the plingstore (free).
Cheers Malcolm On 18 Dec 2014, Peter Young <[email protected]> wrote: >On 18 Dec 2014 David Pitt <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Peter Young, on 18 Dec, wrote: > >>> On 17 Dec 2014 Steve Fryatt <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>>> On 17 Dec, Peter Young wrote in message >>>> <[email protected]>: >>> >>>>> This is with RISC OS and development builds, currently #2441, but >has >>>>> been happening for several days now. >>>>> >>>>> Any of the BBC sires are now taking a lot longer to download, >maybe by >>>>> a factor of five to ten times as long. They are now even slower >than >>>>> the www.msscociety.org.uk sites which till now have been the >slowest >>>>> to download. I've checked my connection speed, and it's much the >same >>>>> as usual. >>>>> >>>>> Is this a problem with NetSurf or with the BBC sites? I suspect >the >>>>> latter. >>> >>>> Have you done the same comparison using another browser (on another >OS), >>>> to confirm that it's actually NetSurf and not the sites themselves? >For >>>> many sites, your connection speed won't be the limiting factor. >>> >>> Good point. Using http://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/gl52 1 minute 20 >seconds >>> with RISC OS NetSurf, already on the icon bar; with Chrome in >Windows, >>> again already running, less than 2 seconds. Is this worth a bug >report? > >> NetSurf #2441 downloads the weather in 4.6s on the RaspberryPi. > >> Is there by any chance spurious junk in a previously used NetSurf >Cache? > >No, I gave up using the disc cache, as it made everything very slow. > >Best wishes, > >Peter. -- Sent with K-@ Mail - the evolution of emailing.
