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Sweet! Thanks! XD
I love my randylion
Great idea ;)
-Shock
And, as usual, it's Winblows-only.
You can also tweak the settings of FireFox so it loads the page up faster. I somebody is interested I can rethink what you had to do...
You don't have to let go of one rope before grabbing the other. But you'll have to let go of one if you want to swing forward.
@dj theyd have to test it ont h e wider audience first to see if the principals work etc which they do before they start making adaptations...
Heres a mac version for all you Mac loving fans - like ME!
It will only work on safari so no Firefox or Opera e.t.c.
http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/wlg/4924
Go to the above link for some information about this "Hack"
Open up terminal, which is located at Applications>Utilities>Terminal
Copy and paste this line into terminal to stop any mistakes.
*SAFARI MUST BE CLOSED BEFORE DOING THIS*
defaults write com.apple.Safari WebKitInitialTimedLayoutDelay -float 0.25
Start up Safari and go to a heavy downloaded web site and you should feel a difference in speed.
If you DO NOT feel comfortable with terminal use this lil program to do it instead.
Link: http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/15704
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Heh, "start making adaptations"? They've had a long time to "adapt" with all their OTHER software, so what's with all the.exe files on the download page? C'mon, people, let's see some tarballs! Some Debian packages! At least give us some RPMs!
Google's web accelerator causes privacy issues.
A software tool launched by Google on Wednesday that speeds up the process of downloading Web sites has caused some users to worry about their privacy.
Google Web Accelerator, which was released in beta, is set up to automatically work with Firefox and Internet Explorer once it's been downloaded. The service stores copies of sites frequently accessed by individual PCs and automatically retrieves new data from those pages, so that a Web browser needs to process only updates to those sites when asked to load them. It can also automatically "pre-fetch" frequently used Web sites before the user downloads it.
However, users are concerned that the service can cache more data from their computers than they would prefer.
On a Google Labs discussion group, one user said that the security implications of Google caching details of Internet sessions were unacceptable.
"I went to the Futuremark forums and noticed that I'm logged in as someone I don't know. Great, I've used Google's Web Accelerator for a couple of hours, visited lots of sites where I'm logged in. Now I wonder how many people used my cache. I understand it's a beta, sure, but something like that is totally unacceptable."
Google was not immediately available for comment, but said in a Web site statement that the service can receive information such as the user's IP address, computer and connection information, and "personally identifiable information", such as an email address.
"Whenever your computer sends cookies with browsing or prefetching page requests for unencrypted sites, we temporarily cache these cookies in order to improve performance," the company wrote on its Web site.
Information entered in SSL connections, such as Internet banking, will not be cached, the company wrote.
The service is only available to broadband subscribers.
Here is a post by someone on a forum:
GWA is dangerous.
It clicks every link on a page...
Including "delete this account" type links, bypassing javascript warnings.
Last edited: Monday, January 09, 2006 at 8:50:13 PM
O, the Mac version I posted doesnt. The author of safari told us about it and he reassured us it didnt do anything like what Racer said above.
^ not the same thing at all... It seems to be helpful, too
HAH! Dammit, Racer, that was a close shave for us... I shudder to think what'd have happened if I'd just used WinE... :S
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It is still in beta form atm but it works ive saved
5.2min loading time from viewing 752 pages
http://webaccelerator.google.com/