What is Digg?40 Comments
- garg, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4wow nice. Saved me a bunch of money on my car insurance.
- gherikill, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2The only reason I use it is to protect my privacy at work. I would rather my IT person see I am going to google.com all day than the various websites I peruse. It also helps me get past the compananies firewall for gambling sites and the like.
- NyMb09, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I tried this about a month or two ago and for some odd reason it prevented me from using xfire and limewire, once I uninstalled it both programs went back to normal...go figure
- jedipimp, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1if you just use it to browse the web, reading sites without logging into anything it works just as its intended, i dont really know if having a page load .3 seconds quicker on each view is really worth it though, but hey atleast google's trying out different ideas for world domination not all of them have to work
- mrkoje, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1err... *faster
- jcs_goog, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1GWA claims to have saved me 21 hours of surfing time.
- etx313, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Google AdSense Accelerator 0.2.62.80.666? Awsome!
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0do people use this?
- spling, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Will this one delete my posts and allow others to see things from my session too? Oh boy!
- mrkoje, on 10/12/2007, -1/+15x fater then dialup!
- erissiva, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Apparently they do...
But - huge security risk. Don't understand why people still use it. - rohizzle121, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0^^lol
- imichaelj, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0aaayoureweb,
GWA operates on a session level. Meaning things normally protected by logins are accessed by GWA. This isn't necessarily a bad thing, except on websites that use GET requests for destruction or creation of data. Because GWA will just plow through all links, regardless of the resulting action of doing so, running GWA can have very undesired effects. In theory, creation and destruction actions are behind POST requests. But many many websites ignore convention and use GET anyway. Thus the security issues. - npiv, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0hmm learned something about GWA and security, but this is a pretty lame link
- serra, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I love it.
- Otto, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0They've improved GWA somewhat. It doesn't precache links that contain a ? in them, for example.
For the most part it works okay, but every once in a while you'll find that a site breaks totally using it. That site is usually badly written. - imichaelj, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0> They've improved GWA somewhat. It doesn't precache links that contain a ? in them, for example.
It's good to hear they're improving its behavior. It isn't Google's fault, really, but sometimes they just have to conform to the idiocy that is nonconformity on the web. - aaayoureweb, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0What is the security risk? i have not read about them yet...or post a link describing them
Thank You - subaruwrt, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0it looks like google will soon know absolulty everything you do online it all started with gmail, and everyone thought it was great.
- Tobey, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0They brought it back?! Hmm, it's just like Google to silently release things like this.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Anyone know if it works with Firefox 1.5 RC2?
- ice2004, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0this ***** it actually sometimes slows down ur surfing while you are online i dont recommend this GWA but i would reccommend you try but if you discover the same experince like me just delete it not worth it
- jrblaze, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Yeah, if you want your Web Browsing to go faster just use the FasterFox Extension for Firefox:
https://addons.mozilla.org/extensions/moreinfo.php?id=1269&application=firefox - darthsuo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Sweet, I can download and surf at the same time. Finally!
- cdmarcus, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0If it's just precaching links, then I don't care. I have FasterFox to do that, and do it better.
- jrblaze, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Yeah, if you want your Web Browsing to go faster just use the FasterFox Extension for Firefox:
Faster Fox - syntekz, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0can this truly mess up a site like digg and how the articles appear each time you visit the site? i don't understand that. thanks.
- Alaerus, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I will not be installing this on any of my systems, sounds kinda shady....
- exBBoi, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0it realy works!! GoogleWebAccelerator+FF=AWESOME surffin' :)
- paulbx, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0It doesn't mess up how things appear. GWA's job is to "pre-fetch" links on the page you're viewing so that if you click them, they appear faster. The problem with GWA occurs with sites that use links (as opposed to buttons)to actually *do* something -- like delete an item, for example. In technical terms, these links are changing state on the server.
In even more technical terms, many would argue that they shouldn't be doing that, because regular links are GET requests and only POST requests should change server state.
(I don't believe the "digg it" links are vulnerable to this, by the way, because they actually invoke Javascript actions -- they are not direct GET requests.)
In yet more technical terms than that, somebody may whip out the word "non-idempotent" to describe these state-changing GET actions, but in fact that's not right. "Idempotent" means that if you make a request over and over it has the same effect server-side as if you just made it once. The relevant concept here is that GET requests (links) need to be "safe" -- they shouldn't change server state at all.
Lots more here if you really care:
http://blog.ianbicking.org/gwa-and-rfc-2616.html - Stark, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0i installed and firefox wouldn't load any pages. then i uninstalled an it works fine. that's just my experience.
- navtiidia, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0i used it and my internet went to like 200/40 from a normal 6000/400
- oldcyborg, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I like the small increase. My DSL sometimes crawls in the afternoons, and it seems like a bigger help then than other times. Bittorent just eats my system resources like there is no tommorrow!!! I have to pause them just to surf....
I really like the free part. I bet it makes them unpopular with portals who are using similar software to gain customers..hehehehe
Cyborg - tsmaestro, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Look at what Cringely has to say:
"And remember the Google Web Accelerator that came and disappeared? It's back! Only this time the Web Accelerator will have the proper hardware and network infrastructure to make it worth using."
I know you want to read the rest...
http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/pulpit20051117.html - braydonf, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0I wish google was more friendly towards macs!
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0"wow nice. Saved me a bunch of money on my car insurance."
Same, paid off my mortgage! Way to go bill! - Otto, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0Just like the last one, using this with Digg will cause you to digg stories seemingly randomly. If you use GWA, put Digg on the list of sites not to accelerate!
- Merlinhoot, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0It didn't let me open Outlook Express.
- Captkidd, on 10/12/2007, -2/+0Good to see they supported Firefox with this, but since I use Opera I can't use it anyway. In other words, since I run the world's fastest browser ever, I can't have my cake and eat it!
- tastypastry, on 10/12/2007, -3/+0No, i dont think that anyone does.
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