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flashgot 1.2.9.2 slow with firefox 4.0
Posted: Tue Apr 19, 2011 10:16 am
by golgepapaz
After updating my browser to 4.0, flashgot became very slow, when I select a link and flashgot it, takes about 4-5 seconds
on average for single links, to actual download manager screen appear, and more so with multiple links. Before upgrading it was almost
instantaneous. I can see the progress bar filled in to half and it stops there for some seconds and then it continues. sorry for not being able to
provide more technical feedback.
Re: flashgot 1.2.9.2 slow with firefox 4.0
Posted: Tue Apr 19, 2011 10:34 am
by Giorgio Maone
Does it happen for every kind of links, or just some (e.g. Rapidshare ones)?
The symptoms you're describing usually pertain some protected file hosting services, and the elapsed time is spent navigating the landing page in the background to discover the actual final link.
Re: flashgot 1.2.9.2 slow with firefox 4.0
Posted: Tue Apr 19, 2011 11:17 am
by golgepapaz
Giorgio Maone wrote:Does it happen for every kind of links, or just some (e.g. Rapidshare ones)?
The symptoms you're describing usually pertain some protected file hosting services, and the elapsed time is spent navigating the landing page in the background to discover the actual final link.
Yes, they are file hosting services. I didn't know that the flashgot makes validation on the links, I've assumed it just passed them to the actual download manager.
if this is the case it makes sense of course,but I assume this behaviour is the same for some iterations right? It shouldn't make any difference. I guess only way to know for sure is trying same links both firefox3 and firefox4.I 'll try that
Re: flashgot 1.2.9.2 slow with firefox 4.0
Posted: Mon May 16, 2011 4:37 pm
by Lassar
Flashgot slows down Firefox too much.
My webpages were crawling.
I disabled flashgot. Now the webpages are loading at a good speed.
Re: flashgot 1.2.9.2 slow with firefox 4.0
Posted: Mon May 16, 2011 5:39 pm
by therube
Particular URLs where this slowdown was apparent?
Instead of disabling FlashGot entirely, if you only disable FlashGot Media, do you still notice a slowdown?
about:config, set flashgot.media.enabled to false (& I think a browser restart is required).
Re: flashgot 1.2.9.2 slow with firefox 4.0
Posted: Mon May 16, 2011 6:41 pm
by Giorgio Maone
Lassar wrote:My webpages were crawling.
Please define "crawling". Are you talking about load speed, UI responsiveness, or both?
Please notice that FlashGot is passive most of the time, i.e. it just responds to your "FlashGot this" and "FlashGot that" commands.
The only exception is FlashGot Media (as therube suggested), but even there the overhead is negligible (well under the tenth of millisecond per HTTP request) because all it does is checking the Content-type header of HTTP responses in order to grab media streams.