How to waste bandwidth, battery power, and annoy sysadmins
Web browsers' excessive requests waste bandwidth and drain battery. Firefox for iOS' flawed link requests, especially for favicons, strain servers inefficiently. Users are cautioned about negative impacts, stressing efficient browsing.
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The article discusses the issue of web browsers making excessive and unnecessary requests, leading to wasted bandwidth, drained battery power, and annoyance for system administrators. It highlights a specific case where Firefox for iOS repeatedly requests the same links, including the favicon, in a flawed manner, causing unnecessary strain on web servers. The author criticizes the behavior of the browser and points out the inefficiency of the requests, particularly focusing on the peculiar way Firefox for iOS handles the favicon request. The article warns users about the negative impact of such behavior and emphasizes the importance of efficient web browsing practices.
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22 commentsBasically Firefox loaded favicons 4x the number of tabs opened to that website. It would do this every time I opened or closed any tab.
https://aggressivelyparaphrasing.me/2022/12/12/why-does-my-l...
It was resolved a while back so maybe it’s similar symptoms but different root cause, or maybe it’s people using older versions?
[1] https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/firefox-ios/issues/12113
Firefox on android is amazing with its plugin support, though I still prefer their pre-2021 UI
Having a path-specific favicon actually sounds like a feature.
This is an exhorbitant exaggeration. They are duplicated requests for a favicon. Not only is that a tiny resource, most of these requests are 404ing which is cheap. And even if it isn't 404, your favicon is a tiny static asset, it should either be served by CDN or in the server's filesystem cache anyways.
Are we talking about not putting annoying sysadmins to good use? Or are we talking about, you know, makin sure they don’t cause nobody no trouble again, boss?
It makes a debouncing. It compares the result with the previous to be sure it is OK. /s
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