[Novalug] browser/network responsiveness

Jon LaBadie jon@jgcomp.com
Sat Oct 3 00:41:47 EDT 2009


On Fri, Oct 02, 2009 at 03:56:50PM -0400, Ken Kauffman wrote:
> In work from days gone by... the Mozilla engine used to wait for all
> artifacts to load before it would render.   IE, however, would start
> rendering as soon as it received "enough" data to do so.  Then it would
> continue to tweak the page rendering as new stuff rendered.    Perhaps
> Safari works similarly to IE.
> 
> If you have access to a Windows PC, load Safari for Windows and do
> comparison tests on the same platform with Firefox.
> 

I've read some "tweak your browser" articles and tried some of the FF
settings they recommend that supposedly affect this behavior with no
noticible benefit.

Jon
> K
> 
> 
> On Fri, Oct 2, 2009 at 15:21, Jon LaBadie <novalugml@jgcomp.com> wrote:
> 
> > About a week ago I had did some troubleshooting of my
> > brother-in-law's iMac.  Turns out he was networked to
> > some neighbor's unsecured wireless net rather than his
> > own.  When I got him hooked up to his own network and
> > using his Comcast cable connection I had a chance to
> > be impressed by the responsiveness of the browser
> > (?safari?).  Most pages just snapped into view with
> > little or no delay.
> >
> > My house is served by Verizon's Fios.  I see quite
> > high download speeds of large downloads.  However,
> > my browser experience is quite poor compared to what
> > I briefly saw with the iMac at my relatives'.
> >
> > In contrast to a new page snapping into place fully
> > rendered, there is typically an initial delay and
> > slower rendering taking place in noticable stages.r
> > Also many (most?) pages don't quite complete.  The
> > status bar at the bottom of Firefox shows it to be
> > a sliver short of complete and the message says
> > "waiting for x.y.z".  This often takes 10 or more
> > seconds to complete and sometimes never does.
> >
> > The problem appears on all the several systems I use
> > at home.  A WinXP wired directly to the router/switch
> > and using Firefox or IE, my desktop running Fedora 9,
> > wired long distance to the same router through another
> > switch and using Firefox, a VirtualBox WinXP on that desktop
> > using FF, IE, or Chrome, and a laptop connected wirelessly
> > running Ubuntu Jaunty and FF or sometimes Konquer.
> >
> > The problem is not underpowered systems; for example the
> > desktop is a dual core, 3GHz, 4GB box.  And I've tried
> > the supposedly faster 3.5.x version of FF with no change
> > in the initial or final delays.
> >
> > I suspect some sort of network problem/setting.
> > Any ideas?
> >
> > Jon
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Jon H. LaBadie                  jon@jgcomp.com
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