How to waste bandwidth, battery power, and annoy sysadmins
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How to waste bandwidth, battery power, and annoy sysadmins
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Re: How to waste bandwidth, battery power, and annoy sysadmins
#2I have to laugh when the robots fetch the .ico file
Re: How to waste bandwidth, battery power, and annoy sysadmins
#3I use Firefox for iPhone. Sorry
At least if probably wastes less energy than messing around with generative AI
Re: How to waste bandwidth, battery power, and annoy sysadmins
#4It's not part of individual directories. That would be stupid.
Having a path-specific favicon actually sounds like a feature.
Re: How to waste bandwidth, battery power, and annoy sysadmins
#5Interesting. From a user experience, Firefox for iPhone has been a really excellent app, it’s been my preferred browser for years.
Re: How to waste bandwidth, battery power, and annoy sysadmins
#6> First up, why in the hell do you need to request the same link 12 times? No, scratch that, 15 times, since it does 3 more after getting the css and feed icon.
It makes a debouncing. It compares the result with the previous to be sure it is OK. /s
Re: How to waste bandwidth, battery power, and annoy sysadmins
#7It's not part of individual directories. That would be stupid. Having a path-specific favicon actually sounds like a feature.
Long ago, I implemented that by pragma no-cache and checking the referrer. It wasn’t perfect but it worked for most users.
Re: How to waste bandwidth, battery power, and annoy sysadmins
#8It's an open source project, with a good discussion of the technical issues on GitHub[1]. Probably linked to certain user behaviors, like having hundreds of tabs open, but surely also contingent on the complexity of wedging a browser in iOS. Like maneuvering an excavator into a sandbox.
[1] https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/firefox-ios/issues/12113
Re: How to waste bandwidth, battery power, and annoy sysadmins
#9Oh hey, I wrote that last issue linked! What crazy Deja vu. Here’s me discovering the issue that led me to find some wild behavior.
Basically 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?
Re: How to waste bandwidth, battery power, and annoy sysadmins
#10It's not part of individual directories. That would be stupid. Having a path-specific favicon actually sounds like a feature.
And it is a feature.
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Attributes...