[freenet-dev] Auto-detecting connection-limited browsers? was Re: Usability testing results

[Florent Daignière]

* Matthew Toseland <toad at amphibian.dyndns.org> [2007-12-11 01:29:09]:

> On Tuesday 11 December 2007 01:21, Matthew Toseland wrote:
> > I've done some usability testing with a local newbie volunteer. The main 
> > conclusions:
> > 
> ...
> > 
> > 5. Firefox is not optimised for Freenet: it has too few parallel 
> connections, 
> > this significantly slows down browsing Freenet, especially if a smart user 
> > starts opening stuff in new tabs... This is a major problem, but I'm not 
> sure 
> > what we can do about it. It's mentioned in the README (well the 0.5 readme 
> at 
> > least), but who reads it?
> > 
> I wonder if it would be possible to auto-detect this... We could detect how 
> many parallel connections the browser is using, but the problem is an HTTP 
> compliant browser should pipeline requests, (which few do), and use very few 
> connections per server (which firefox does)... ideally we'd have a plugin, 
> which could certainly be detected, but then people start exchanging raw 
> freenet: url's and compatibility gets to be a pain...

What about finishing my test toadlet ? 

http://localhost:8888/test/

NextGen$
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