FasterFox Bad.?.

Howdy.

i was over at DnsStuff and i was doing IPWhois lookup, well because i'm bored.
Anyhow i'm using firefox, and i got that FasterFox installed. anyhow i got this error page.

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FORBIDDEN: Pre-fetching abuses our website.

If you are using the FireFox extension 'FasterFox', it is very poor and will block you from websites that it abuses. Please uninstall it (and perhaps add a comment to the FasterFox page. If you are not running it, you are running some sort of poor extension that pre-fetches pages that it shouldn't (ones without a 'link' marker). Once you have done this, you can re-load this page. Note that if you do not remove the rogue program, you will continue to see this message occasionally.

If everyone did this, it could easily quadruple the load on our server, and increase the total amount of wasted bandwidth on the Internet by 10 times or more. While we should be able to handle at least 10 times our current load, other websites aren't so lucky, and the operators may have to pay extra money as a result -- and perhaps shut down their websites. FasterFox abuses the Internet, there is no question about that.

NOTE: There *are* a few other rarely used programs besides FireFox that do this (there appears to be a rogue web proxy that does this too).

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So is the FasterFox really as bad as they are making it sound to be.?
i've been told only about how good it is etc etc, and i've noticed pages loading up a hello a lot quicker while using it.
But is what this error page is saying true at all.?

cheers
front2back

I will clean the post up after i've had a coffee. :D

Well F2B, that's a great question. I installed in on all of my FF's and there is definitely and improvement. I haven't ran across the error yet, they don't show up as malware, so.....

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Hey Fronties~ yooze ole bludger.................why did ya blow our cover?...........from your link:

Your IP: 86.128.xxx.xxx
ASN: 2856 [BT-UK-AS (BTnet UK Regional network)]
Near: Toronto, Ontario
United Kingdom

Them Canucks now know that I am reabsorbing them into the Empire.............

:D :p :eek:

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I am currently using FasterFox 1.0.1 and I went to dns and tried to see if I could recreate your error, and couldn't....It is a good deal faster.....do you have anything else as far as extensions that help with the performance of FF, I have Noscript,Adblock,Tabbed Browser,talkback and image zoom and it seems to be working fine...

There are some tweaks you can do in about:config which may work around that problem, this link has some of the tuning options explained:

Firefox Tuning ..... ;)

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Them Canucks now know that I am reabsorbing them into the Empire.............

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nihil

Alpo, tis the other way around.............. :p

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Alpo, tis the other way around..............

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Nihil:

Lookout... That sounds bad... Canada will send three microlights and two canoes.... Their entire airforce and navy.... :rolleyes:

Howdy.

FasterFox.
DownThemAll
FireFTP
ShowIP
Live HTTP headers
+ 3 other little custome extensions i'm in the process of building.

Anyhow i've included a screen dump of the error, now i carn't get the index page to load up there.

hmm first coffee hasn't kicked in yet. :(

OK folks,

On a (slightly) more serious note, is London close to Toronto?............I know that Toronto is the provincial capital :)

Looks like a table record matching problem to me?...............mismatches London, Ontario and London, England.

Would YOU trust that software?

:D

London is about one hour from Toronto and about 3 from Detroit.

about the same range as the micros and the canoes have....lol

:D

:eek: I'm vulnerable.... ROFLMAO

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Originally posted here by Tiger Shark
Nihil:

Lookout... That sounds bad... Canada will send three microlights and two canoes.... Their entire airforce and navy.... :rolleyes:

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LOL....actually one slightly used canoe, unable to find enough Bosun's to man the other one, still waiting for the spare parts to arrive from UK.... :D

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On a (slightly) more serious note, is London close to Toronto?............I know that Toronto is the provincial capital

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Centre of Universe to some.....anyhoo irongeeks sig shows my IP as somewhere in Ottawa...sooo (scratches head).....

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anyhoo irongeeks sig shows my IP as somewhere in Ottawa...sooo

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That's all just a diversion so Tiger Shark won't know where the invasion is coming from.

:)

Ahhh.... Brilliant... Absolutely Brilliant.... The Canadians are showing thier military acumen.... They are going to attack the US through Detroit.... Good luck kids... I'd go round if I were you.... There's some nasty momma's downtown.... Piss them off and you'll have their drug dealing sons all over you... ;)

Before I started keeping reefs I thought Detritus was the inhabitants of Detroit.... :D

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Originally posted here by Tiger Shark
Ahhh.... Brilliant... Absolutely Brilliant.... The Canadians are showing thier military acumen.... They are going to attack the US through Detroit.... Good luck kids... I'd go round if I were you.... There's some nasty momma's downtown.... Piss them off and you'll have their drug dealing sons all over you... ;)

Before I started keeping reefs I thought Detritus was the inhabitants of Detroit.... :D

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Nah, we would just commandeer one of Detroits 2 paddlewheelers and come ashore down by Amherstburgh, like through Bob-lo..............or if it's still there zug island.... :p


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What version of FF are you using.....this link has some info on prefetching with FF..
http://www.edochan.com/programming/pf.htm

I ran the little test:

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Link prefetching is a browser mechanism, which utilizes browser idle time to download or prefetch documents that the user might visit in the near future. You need cookies enabled for this test to work.
Variable Setting
Prefetch is working.
Prefetch referer Your browser sent the required X-Moz header and sent the following referer header along with the prefetch request:
http://gemal.dk/browserspy/prefetch.php

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Another useful link here:FasterFox

Err... The paddleboats have been derelict for years IIRC... I think they are crackhouses right now... The police run them..... ;)

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What version of FF are you using.....this link has some info on prefetching with FF..
http://www.edochan.com/programming/pf.htm

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I'm using version 1.5

http://www.dewit.ca/archs/avro_shaw/index.html

:D

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Originally posted here by nihil
http://www.dewit.ca/archs/avro_shaw/index.html

:D

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Sad what politics will do to something which had so much promise as well as so much of a threat to the other Airplane makers

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Sometime between the U.S. president's visit to Canada in July of 1958 and December of 1958, an agreement was reached with the U.S. that if the Arrow and its support systems were cancelled and Canada agreed to use U.S. equipment, there would be defence production sharing between Canada and the U.S. There is no indication of who initiated this agreement

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hhmmm talk about a conspiracy theory.....


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What I can get from reading some of the others, is maybe a conflict with the cache or the google web accelerator.....???wow the Steelers are kicking butt...... :cool:

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Are there any restrictions on what is prefetched?
Yes, only http:// URLs can be prefetched (https:// URLs are never prefetched for security reasons). Other protocols (such as FTP) do not provide rich enough support for client side caching. In addition to this restriction, URLs with a query string are not prefetched. This is done because such URLs often result in documents that cannot be reused out of the browser's cache, so prefetching them often has little benefit. We found that some existing sites utilize the <link rel="next"> tag with URLs containing query strings to reference the next document in a series of documents. Bugzilla is an example of such a site that does this, and it turns out that the Bugzilla bug reports are not cachable, so prefetching these URLs would nearly double the load on poor Bugzilla! It's easy to imagine other sites being designed like Bugzilla, so we explicitly do not prefetch URLs with query strings. (It might make sense to allow prefetching of these documents when the rel=prefetchrelation type is specified, since this should not appear in any existing content.) There are no other restrictions on the URLs that are prefetched.

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http://www.mozilla.org/projects/netl...mething_in_the

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Dynamic speed increases can be obtained with Fasterfox's unique prefetching mechanism, which recycles idle bandwidth by silently loading and caching all of the links on the page you are browsing.

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http://fasterfox.mozdev.org/

Just from the description, it sounds evil to me. What happens when you hit a page
that has a big number of links. Not only are you needlessly accessing all those
servers, but wasting your own bandwidth. With four computers online,
there is no such thing as idle bandwidth in my household.
:cool:

More...

It seems that there is evil afoot. I did a little more research on "prefetch"
and a lot of people are bitching about it. It apparently comes in two forms.
One is like fasterfox, and prefetches all links, unless excluded by robots.txt.

The other doesn't require the fastfox addon, but prefetches links designated
by the web page for prefetching. The plot thickens. It seems that Google
marks the top search result for prefetching, so your browser automatically
downloads the page, assuming that you would click that link anyway.

http://www.google.com/intl/en/help/f....html#prefetch

It probably distorts the statistics by generating extra hits on those pages.
No wonder people will kill to get top rating in a google search. Once you are on top
you get the artificial benefit of prefetch to keep you there. AFAIK, Internet Explorer
is not (yet) guilty of this behavior.