Firefox 0.9 out

[az]

What's pipelining?

AZ

[UtwigMU]

You see when a surfer enters a tube formed by a wave that roll's over and forms a pipeline, it's called pipelining.

There's even a song about it.



Seriously:
The browser establishes multiple connections and requests several objects at the same time.

Edit: by enabling pipelining, surfers using Firefox/Mozilla surfboards can outrun even those using Opera.


A good test for speed is IMO opening 2 browsers and pointing them to www.gettyimages.com and do a search for images by keywords.

[az]

But Opera has this enabled by default .. you can tune the number of connections, of course.

AZ

[UtwigMU]

Yes, but it may cause problems with some servers, proxies or slow connections and result in slower experience.

[az]

You can of course disable it in Opera

AZ

[Ribbit]

The main server which has problems with pipelining is IIS, which while not Apache, still has a fair market share (about 20%). The Mozilla developers felt that given this state of affairs, they should keep pipelining disabled by default.

[iKwak]

I am definitely upgrading right now.
Firefox tab and popup blocker simply rocks.

[The PIT]

Sadly the tabbed browser doesn't work at work.

[Wombat]

Originally posted by The PIT
Sadly the tabbed browser doesn't work at work.

huh?

[The PIT]

It's supposed to be tabbed browser isn't it???

[spadnos]

yes - try middle-clicking a link.

Or ctrl-click, or ctrl-enter from the location bar, or right-click->open in new tab on a link.

It's there, you just might not be seeing it by default.

- Steve

[Greebe]

only thing new in 0.9 is ctrl-enter from the location bar... otherwise same ol stuff we've all become accustomed too

[Wombat]

Ctrl-T is for a new tab.

[The PIT]

You mean it doesn't automatically open a new tab.

[Wombat]

Yes, it does, when you middle-click on the link.