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Google Web Accelerator

Post by Matt »

How does Google Web Accelerator work?

Google Web Accelerator uses various strategies to make your web pages load faster, including:

* Sending your page requests through Google machines dedicated to handling Google Web Accelerator traffic.
* Storing copies of frequently looked at pages to make them quickly accessible.
* Downloading only the updates if a web page has changed slightly since you last viewed it.
* Prefetching certain pages onto your computer in advance.
* Managing your Internet connection to reduce delays.
* Compressing data before sending it to your computer.
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I've installed it for Firefox, seems a little quicker
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Post by Wagh »

I installed it. After a days use it said it had saved me a total of 0 seconds. I uninstalled it.
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Post by molotovwars »

I've never really been a fan of toolbars and I haven't ever felt google was slow, at least never to a point that it needed to be accelerated.
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Post by FETUS »

Warning it has a lot of glitches. First it ignores javascript warning pop-ups so if unchecked you could be installing something you don't want, it also uses info gathered by all its users so you could find yourself in someones account on some website or someone in yours. I'll look for the official notes on this and post em later.
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Post by Untamed »

But, might I add:

Google Accelerator is bad news for Web apps
Google Accelerator wreaks havoc on Web-apps by "clicking every link" on every control screen in order to cache it -- so it also ends up clicking on "Delete my account" and "Launch pre-emptive nuclear strike," etc.

The accelerator scours a page and prefetches the content behind each link. This gives the illusion of pages loading faster (since they've already been pre-loaded behind the scenes). Here's the problem: Google is essentially clicking every link on the page -- including links like "delete this" or "cancel that." And to make matters worse, Google ignores the Javascript confirmations. So, if you have a "Are you sure you want to delete this?" Javascript confirmation behind that "delete" link, Google ignores it and performs the action anyway.

There's some foo you can add to your Web-app designs to prevent this, but if you haven't patched and your users are using the accelerator, look out!

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Post by AuroEdge »

So... is it safe or not?
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Post by Sir Savant »

Yes and no. Yes if you dont use accounts or send personal info through it, not safe if you do.
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