> > tried fasterfox addon?

Fasterfox is a royal pain in the butt for webmasters. It automatically
follows all the links on a web page, requesting each of them no matter if
the user ever intended to click them or not. It does so at high speed,
burning up bandwidth that will probably never be viewed. (Note to the
clueless: Webmasters PAY for bandwidth) 

It is also a robot, so it makes the web server think it is being indexed
either by a search engine or by a spammer trying to harvest email addresses
because it follows links that would normally not be visible to a user. 

Let me give you an example of why this is a bad thing. Lets say you have an
account on Yahoo or whatever that greets you with a "Hello username: If you
are not username, click here to log out" Fasterfox has to try to figure out
that it should never follow that link, because to do so would automatically
log you out without even letting you know that you have done so. If
Fasterfox can't figure that out, then the web site has to try to identify
that the request is coming from fasterfox and ignore it. How either of those
things are suppose to work reliably is beyond me.

Website: "Click here to delete all files" Fasterfox: Pant, pant, duh, I'd
better prefetch that page. Website:"Really delete all pictures?" fasterfox:
Duh, I'd better get that one too, master might want it later... Website:"Ok,
deleting all file" user: "Hello? Tech support? YOUR WEB SITE JUST LOST ALL
MY FILES!!!!"

I strongly recommend against the use of that program. It is a bomb, waiting
to go off.

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James.
 

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