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MasterJedi
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24 Jul 2011, 12:03 pm

how do you get a browser to read ahead a little more when viewing some things like Facebook? See, when I first view the page and scroll down to the bottom, it'll decide to access and display more than what's on the screen at the moment and the page will skip down further than where I want to be.

It's not like I'm impatient and not giving the page time to load. I have a pretty quick connection and it loads immediately without any load time so that's not the issue. In fact, I can wait minutes and it'll still do it.

I'm using the latest Firefox.


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24 Jul 2011, 12:42 pm

MasterJedi wrote:
how do you get a browser to read ahead a little more when viewing some things like Facebook? See, when I first view the page and scroll down to the bottom, it'll decide to access and display more than what's on the screen at the moment and the page will skip down further than where I want to be.

It's not like I'm impatient and not giving the page time to load. I have a pretty quick connection and it loads immediately without any load time so that's not the issue. In fact, I can wait minutes and it'll still do it.

I'm using the latest Firefox.


Sounds like you have a slow connection. Still, the problem you describe could be caused by slow rendering of images on the page but first things first. What does speedtest.net report your connection speed to be?



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24 Jul 2011, 1:00 pm

Tom_Kakes wrote:
MasterJedi wrote:
how do you get a browser to read ahead a little more when viewing some things like Facebook? See, when I first view the page and scroll down to the bottom, it'll decide to access and display more than what's on the screen at the moment and the page will skip down further than where I want to be.

It's not like I'm impatient and not giving the page time to load. I have a pretty quick connection and it loads immediately without any load time so that's not the issue. In fact, I can wait minutes and it'll still do it.

I'm using the latest Firefox.


Sounds like you have a slow connection. Still, the problem you describe could be caused by slow rendering of images on the page but first things first. What does speedtest.net report your connection speed to be?


I think he's talking about sites that load more dataz as you reach the bottom the page, instead of using paging.


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24 Jul 2011, 1:10 pm

kra17 wrote:
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MasterJedi wrote:
how do you get a browser to read ahead a little more when viewing some things like Facebook? See, when I first view the page and scroll down to the bottom, it'll decide to access and display more than what's on the screen at the moment and the page will skip down further than where I want to be.

It's not like I'm impatient and not giving the page time to load. I have a pretty quick connection and it loads immediately without any load time so that's not the issue. In fact, I can wait minutes and it'll still do it.

I'm using the latest Firefox.


Sounds like you have a slow connection. Still, the problem you describe could be caused by slow rendering of images on the page but first things first. What does speedtest.net report your connection speed to be?


I think he's talking about sites that load more dataz as you reach the bottom the page, instead of using paging.


Ahh, I see. I don't really use fb that much. What if you change the user agent string in ff to a legacy browser like ie6. Then it might not use this feature in fb.

Worth a try?



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24 Jul 2011, 1:11 pm

speedtest has me at 21.7 mbps.


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24 Jul 2011, 1:22 pm

MasterJedi wrote:
speedtest has me at 21.7 mbps.


It's not a connection problem then. Did you try changing the user agent string as this should disable advanced features on sites like fb.



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24 Jul 2011, 1:25 pm

This sounds like its loading more comments when youve got to the bottom of the page of comments? Like how slashdot dot org has a 'many more' button at the bottom of the page, click it and more will load without going to a new page.

If thats the case then, then this happens because of the javascript code in use. you [i]might[i] be able to change it in facebooks settings, if that doesn't work other than editing the javascript code yourself, you could turn off javascript.



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24 Jul 2011, 1:38 pm

um, how do I do those ^ & ^^


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24 Jul 2011, 1:57 pm

amorak wrote:
This sounds like its loading more comments when youve got to the bottom of the page of comments? Like how slashdot dot org has a 'many more' button at the bottom of the page, click it and more will load without going to a new page.

If thats the case then, then this happens because of the javascript code in use. you [i]might[i] be able to change it in facebooks settings, if that doesn't work other than editing the javascript code yourself, you could turn off javascript.


You could use the no script extension but a blanket ban of javascript probably wouldn't help. You could create your own userscript then load it with greasemonkey. Someone may have even created one for this already. ;)



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24 Jul 2011, 2:10 pm

Tom_Kakes wrote:
amorak wrote:
This sounds like its loading more comments when youve got to the bottom of the page of comments? Like how slashdot dot org has a 'many more' button at the bottom of the page, click it and more will load without going to a new page.

If thats the case then, then this happens because of the javascript code in use. you [i]might[i] be able to change it in facebooks settings, if that doesn't work other than editing the javascript code yourself, you could turn off javascript.


You could use the no script extension but a blanket ban of javascript probably wouldn't help. You could create your own userscript then load it with greasemonkey. Someone may have even created one for this already. ;)

I was thinking that, no javascript is a problem these days for many sites. I didnt know the name of the firefox extension though.