skattertech.com— A tutorial to help website owners save bandwidth and reduce server loads by blocking Fasterfox from pre-fetching links on web pages. (add code to robots.txt)
Feb 18, 2006View in Crawl 4
A. Prefetching in fasterfox is disabled by defaultB. It only prefetches links to .htm or .html files (not asp, php, shtml, or even ".htm?a=1" type links etc. etc.). So the person complaining about it using up all his bandwidth on his "dynamic site" is talking out of his ass.I don't see what the big deal is with it. It's great for people stuck on dial-up (me!).
=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-TIPS TO HACK FASTERFOX SO THAT IT IGNORES THE ROBOTS.TXT=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-1.) When you download a firefox extension, it comes with an XPI extension. Really, these files are plain old zip files, and if renamed to .zip, you can open them with winzip for example to view the files inside.2) Fasterfox.xpi has 4 files in it; fasterfox.js, readme.txt, install.rdf, and fasterfox.jar3) Jar files can also be opened using winzip, and the file in fasterfox.jar that contains the code which checks the robots.txt file is:fasterfoxOverlay.js4) Here's the code:// Checks a given site's robots.txt file to see if they wish to opt-out of prefetchingfunction isSiteOptOut(url, aEvent, pos) {
Raithmir: Lots of .html web pages are actually dynamic pages thanks to the wonders of .htaccess. Many content management systems either use a fake .html for the addresses or they have no extensions.
shiftlessFeb 18, 2006
Fasterfox completely sucks! It broke Firefox and f**ked it over to a point of no return.Worst extension ever.
chairyFeb 18, 2006
oh yeah, well I have a 60 exabyte limit per second and a swedish bikini model sucks my c**k on the hour and i get paid $65 a day for it
echilonFeb 18, 2006
Kind of ironic, utility made to speed up web browing by leeching bandwidth, people find trick to stop utility.
raithmirFeb 20, 2006
A. Prefetching in fasterfox is disabled by defaultB. It only prefetches links to .htm or .html files (not asp, php, shtml, or even ".htm?a=1" type links etc. etc.). So the person complaining about it using up all his bandwidth on his "dynamic site" is talking out of his ass.I don't see what the big deal is with it. It's great for people stuck on dial-up (me!).
volatileacidFeb 21, 2006
=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-TIPS TO HACK FASTERFOX SO THAT IT IGNORES THE ROBOTS.TXT=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-1.) When you download a firefox extension, it comes with an XPI extension. Really, these files are plain old zip files, and if renamed to .zip, you can open them with winzip for example to view the files inside.2) Fasterfox.xpi has 4 files in it; fasterfox.js, readme.txt, install.rdf, and fasterfox.jar3) Jar files can also be opened using winzip, and the file in fasterfox.jar that contains the code which checks the robots.txt file is:fasterfoxOverlay.js4) Here's the code:// Checks a given site's robots.txt file to see if they wish to opt-out of prefetchingfunction isSiteOptOut(url, aEvent, pos) {
critternycMar 4, 2006
Raithmir: Lots of .html web pages are actually dynamic pages thanks to the wonders of .htaccess. Many content management systems either use a fake .html for the addresses or they have no extensions.
volatileacidMar 21, 2006
non-techie f**kerz -2 for my post above... what a waste - I explain a workaround for no reason.
burkeApr 11, 2006
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eladkarakoFeb 8, 2010
for Fasterfox working properly in the new Firefox-versions try <a class="user" href="https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/14833" rel="nofollow">https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/148 ...</a> instead.it works faster.