ChimeraBooster?... SPEEeeD!

shawnpatrickjoyce

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ah HTTP pipelining...good stuff. Scroll down for the english, por favor.

ibrowse

Sweet, Chimera is my main browser now, I'll check it out. Thanks.

eman

I really haven't noticed it much faster after trying it out.



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shawnpatrickjoyce

My one friend at Penn State said the same thing. He has an iBook. Actually, isn't that what you have, EmAn?

eman

Hmm, that's weird. and yeah, i've got an iBook.

aquatic

Things are now 300% faster and I am a Chimera convert.



AI is easily 3x faster.

ibrowse

I guess it's a little faster, I think it will take a while of using it before I notice any real improvement. That actually made the changes right? I don't need to run that ever again do I?

serrano

Holy shit the god damn thing is instant. All images load instantly, this is crazy fast.

altivec_2.0

Holy Crap!! This thing is FAST!!! It's more than 3 times as fast as before!

othello

how sweet is that! f'ing a...

hassan i sabbah

Weeeeeeeeee!!!!!

quarem

Does seem to be faster. Basically this functionality is already in Chimera 0.6, and this scripts just edits the preferences to turn it on. I wonder how much longer until they actually implement this into Chimera by default?



Oh...since it adjusts your preferences you shouldn't have to re-apply it after every nightly build. Unless of course they change the preferences somehow.

thuh freak

i'm not wholly sure how this pipelining thing worx, but i think its dependant (somewhat?) on the type of connection peeps is on.



so, for yous guys who got faster speeds, what kind of connection are you on? modem, dsl, isdn, cable, t[123], ..?

tommy_thompson

Installed it..can see a marginal boost for me. On a 17" iMac with 512MB of RAM. I was reading another thread and cannot locate it...it talked about how to turn it back off. I would be interested in doing that for test purposes. I have 1.5Mbit connection.



Thanks!

sledgehammer

if you backed up your prefs.js file before running it, I imagine you could just replace the modified file with the backed up copy in order to turn it off.

And yeah, while not enormously so, things are definitely faster after running it.

tommy_thompson

True, True. I will try that in the mean time.



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mattyj

Damn right this thing is a hell of a lot faster than IE.. And Navigator doesn't even work... So this is now my first choice.



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eugene

[quote]Originally posted by thuh Freak:

<strong>i'm not wholly sure how this pipelining thing worx, but i think its dependant (somewhat?) on the type of connection peeps is on.



so, for yous guys who got faster speeds, what kind of connection are you on? modem, dsl, isdn, cable, t[123], ..?</strong><hr></blockquote>



It obviously depends on server-side bandwidth and your own bandwidth. If you're on a modem...you won't see any benefit from pipelining. In fact you might perceive slower performance since your computer will be sucking several http requests through a straw.



If you're on a cable modem or DSL line, some servers will try to divide their bandwidth among client requests. HTTP pipelining merely increases the number of simultaneous requests, increasing your share of the total requests made to the server at any one time.



Another issue may be bandwidth throttling. Many ISPs throttle their bandwidth so that you get blazing fast transfer speeds at the beginning of a connection which tapers off for longer connections. Since web browsing usually deals with lots of small files, you usually finish downloading each individual file before the transfer begins to throttle down noticeably. This is amplified by HTTP pipelining since the files won't be served over one stream.

shawnpatrickjoyce

I'm on a cable connection and it seems that my connection ramps up in speed mostly. Chimera Booster made sped things up only marginally. What does that mean?

jimdad

just downloaded it. On a cable connection with a G4 imac first impressions are that there is a decent speed boost although it is hard to tell as Chimera itself is faster than IE. Don't think i'll be using IE much longer. Thanks, Shawn.



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