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The majority of Facebook's traffic now uses QUIC and HTTP/3

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Re: The majority of Facebook's traffic now uses QUIC and HTTP/3

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For Chrome users, this open source extension will tell you what protocol the browser is using for each website being accessed: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/http-indicator/hgc...

Chrome's own developer tools can tell you this easily. Check out the network pane.

Re: The majority of Facebook's traffic now uses QUIC and HTTP/3

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post #49

Nice, can we now make Facebook look not like it was created in the early 2000? Am I the only one bothered by that? I rarely use Facebook (I used it only when I had to, and never created by own profile, always some temporary ones), so maybe the content is king there, but the UI is very dated.

Well i feel old now.... to me fb is one of those sites using tons of heavy ui that makes me yearn for older sites.

Keep in mind also that https://nostalgia.wikipedia.org is what wikipedia looked like in the beginning of the 2000s, so i think you might just be misremembering how plain many sites were back then

Re: The majority of Facebook's traffic now uses QUIC and HTTP/3

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Is this possible with NodeJS + express already? I didn't see any package for that or config

Node.js v15.0 now has experimental QUIC support. For production usage, I wouldn't expect anything usable before the v16 LTS release in October 2021 (and it might still be feature flagged at that point). But that's pretty irrelevant for most production deployments, as you'll almost certainly want to have some type of AWS ALB, nginx, Cloudflare etc. load balancer in front of your Node services.

Caddy does support http/3.

Re: The majority of Facebook's traffic now uses QUIC and HTTP/3

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By the way, even though it is not yet turned on by default, http3 support is present in Firefox and can be activated by toggling 'network.http.http3.enabled' in about:config to true. I have had it enabled for a few weeks and everything seems okay except that rarely I've noticed a few sites not loading the first time I visit them but needing a 'refresh', but I'm not sure if this is because of the new QUIC code or just…

Beware that there have been some issues with Google sites not loading or being very slow with Firefox's HTTP/3 implementation. Some of these were Firefox bugs and some were Google server bugs.

But I use HTTP/3 in Firefox Nightly and use Gmail and Google Docs all day long without major breakage these days.

Re: The majority of Facebook's traffic now uses QUIC and HTTP/3

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post #49

Nice, can we now make Facebook look not like it was created in the early 2000? Am I the only one bothered by that? I rarely use Facebook (I used it only when I had to, and never created by own profile, always some temporary ones), so maybe the content is king there, but the UI is very dated.

On which platform is the ui outdated? IMO it looks pretty good

Settings menus on desktop browsers look like they haven't been touched since the Windows XP era.

Re: The majority of Facebook's traffic now uses QUIC and HTTP/3

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post #49

Nice, can we now make Facebook look not like it was created in the early 2000? Am I the only one bothered by that? I rarely use Facebook (I used it only when I had to, and never created by own profile, always some temporary ones), so maybe the content is king there, but the UI is very dated.

They just updated it about a month ago.

Besides the dark theme, it is super crowded and feels like using a low-res phone on a 4k monitor—a step backwards.

Re: The majority of Facebook's traffic now uses QUIC and HTTP/3

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I feel like I belong in the minority who like the new Facebook SPA. It loads shockingly fast on my computer, almost instantaneous even

Interesting, it's very slow for me, and usually triggers warnings from Safari for excess resource consumption.

Re: The majority of Facebook's traffic now uses QUIC and HTTP/3

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I feel like I belong in the minority who like the new Facebook SPA. It loads shockingly fast on my computer, almost instantaneous even

It hangs all the time for me, video scrubbing halts the entire tab, and it uses a lot of CPU sometimes.

Re: The majority of Facebook's traffic now uses QUIC and HTTP/3

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I feel like I belong in the minority who like the new Facebook SPA. It loads shockingly fast on my computer, almost instantaneous even

Interesting, it's very slow for me, and usually triggers warnings from Safari for excess resource consumption.

I think it's extra slow in Safari, for some reason. Just like Google Maps is also slower in Safari than in Chrome. However, overall I would say Safari is the fastest browser out there, based on my own browsing habits. Also most memory efficient.
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