Posted on 08/10/2010 3:16:49 PM PDT by SmokingJoe
Your screeching temper tantrum speaks for itself.
Yes, It may come as news to all, but, real people, and real businesses actually exist outside of the range of cable, DSL, and what ever else.
The only options are cellular data, if available. And satellite data. Depending on the situation, they may, or may not be usable, or needed.
If you can’t get a view of the satellite in question, then no good. If you don’t have cellular data coverage, then no good. Some cell providers will actually cancel your account if you try to use it for fixed service. And if you’re primary work flow is E mail and “text” data files, then you may be able to get by with a dial up connection.
Sometimes, you have to go with a VPN or direct point to point (dialup) for privacy reasons when transferring documents.
Someone can say that they should get a leased line to run high speed data on, but at the distances you see out here in the sticks, you won’t get speeds much above dialup. You could say that you should get fiber, but money doesn’t grow on trees, and that cost real money!!!!!!There is one place just west of us where they have a direct way dish on top of a 100 foot tower to get above an obstruction. But that is an extream.
As I stated, even on a stout connection, it still causes problems. With faster fox, when you enter a webpage, fasterfox will follow all the links from that webpage and download all the webpages it links to, that way, when you click on any one of the links, you see the new page “instantly” The problem with that is, depending on what page you are viewing, the linked web pages may contain hundred’s of megabytes, or even gigabytes of data. So, while the FF user is calmly sitting there, reading the webpage, faster fox is simultaneously downloading 50 or more web pages. Everyone else on the network drags down to a crawl. The streaming media presentation in the other room grinds to a stop, and everyone gets mad! Once the person gets done reading the page, he may not even click on any of the links, so all that downloaded data is just thrown out.
When you are watching a packet snifer. The normal behavior when using IE or any other browser, when you have a heavily used connection, or a dial up is… (Request packet from the browser to the internet gateway)….(data packet). (data packet)(data packet)……. (data packet)……. (data packet)(data packet)…. On and on…
When you are using FF with a heavily used (high speed) connection …. You get…. … (Request packet from the browser to the internet gateway)….(data packet). (data packet)(data packet)…(re request packet)…. (data packet)… (re request packet)…. (data packet)(data packet)… (re request packet). On and on…
When you are using FF with a dial up connection …. You get…. … (Request packet from the browser to the internet gateway)….(data packet). (re request packet) (data packet). (re request packet) (data packet). (re request packet) (data packet). (re request packet). On and on…
When a computer does a new request or re request, it gets priority over ongoing data flow. Once the data starts flowing, the gateway equalizes the bandwidth among all ongoing data flows to balance things out. With the constant re-requesting every time the next packet in the line doesn’t show up promptly, the computer in question keeps pushing his data stream to the head of the queue. That basically shuts off the data flow to every other computer on the network until the FF computer is done pulling data. When you combine that with Faster fox, then ow buddy, stand back. I have seen gateways auto lockout a mac address because it confused the faster fox activity as a denial of service attack from inside/outside the system.
The makers of the software do not have the right to assume what you are using it with, or the network that it is going to exist in. The product should conform to accepted behavioral norms that other networking systems have set out! Other systems work fine, firefox doesn’t. It’s firefox’s problem. Plenty of people have complained over the years, but the people that make firefox won’t listen. It has got to the point that website owners have openly talked about banning all FF users from their sites. That is why the spoofer plugin that makes FF look like IE to the website it’s visiting was created. But website owners have come up with behavioral checks to determine if it’s really firefox/faster fox. If the visiting browser does specific things, then it gets banned.
How many other browsers out there have web site owners talked about banning? None that I know of……
I do know one group that definitely wishes you would not use Firefox: it’s the hax0rs who want to 0wn your browser.
If you use FF with AdBlock Plus, the filterset Rick752's EasyList Filter is a very popular and effective add on. The list is still being updated.
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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2036598/posts
Links posted here and to the WashPost article are still active.
I as well get that annoying “unresponsive script” warning box pain in the butt! Never had it until I got latest v. of FF 3.6.8 Guess I could go back to earlier v. But will wait and see if FF addresses this issue. Sure they are aware of it.
It’s actually called Finjan. It scans websites for bad stuff before you log in.
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