[WikiEN-l] Slooow!

[Marc Riddell]

on 11/22/07 7:15 PM, joshua.zelinsky at yale.edu at joshua.zelinsky at yale.edu
wrote:

> Is there maybe some problem with prefetching? Have you tried turning off
> prefetching and seeing if that speeds things up?

I honestly don't know what that is, Joshua. I'm about as computer-challenged
as they come. One thing I do know is that it started happening just about
the time that the banner giving the number of donations starting appearing
at the top. Who knows?

Marc Riddell

> 
> Quoting Ron Ritzman <ritzman at gmail.com>:
> 
>> I usually read WP at home through a 28800pbs soda straw and here is my
>> experience using Firefox 2...
>> 
>> Trying to load a WP page the first time the browser is started or
>> after clearing the cache is dog slow. After that they load reasonable.
>> 
>> If during an initial "dog slow" load, the modem is disconnected, the
>> page pops right up.
>> 
>> Someone on IRC said this might be because Firefox and most other
>> browsers always wait for all CSS to load before rendering the page and
>> it might be the codepages that are loading slower then the main text.
>> Future loads are faster because the CSS is cached. Same person also
>> claimed that this has been corrected in Gecko 1.9 but I noticed no
>> difference when reading WP with a pre release of Firefox 3.
>> 
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