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Developer's Corner / Re: Desktop Forum Reader
« on: February 10, 2007, 08:24 AM »
I don't know if there's anything server side, but there may be something helpful on the browser side. For Firefox, there is an extension called Fasterfox, which loads all links in the background. The improvement is perceptible on simpler pages, like Google's search results, but on large pages with lots of content and links, the chance Fasterfox preloads the link you're eventually going to click is rather small. It would help if you could configure the links you want preloaded, e.g. grab only links containing words such as "next", "page", or "more" etc., but Fasterfox doesn't support that.
A long time ago I was using a http proxy called Naviscope, which had exactly that feature, and it speeded up page loading very nicely. (Its basic feature was scrubbing ads.) It was freeware and it performed flawlessly, but it got abandoned after a while, and I had to drop it when it became necessary to run an actual firewall. Perhaps there are other proxies now that have the preload feature.
A long time ago I was using a http proxy called Naviscope, which had exactly that feature, and it speeded up page loading very nicely. (Its basic feature was scrubbing ads.) It was freeware and it performed flawlessly, but it got abandoned after a while, and I had to drop it when it became necessary to run an actual firewall. Perhaps there are other proxies now that have the preload feature.