Re: Potentialy OT: Firefox downloads over 6 GB of data streaming < 1 GB movie.
On 2016-07-11, Juan R. de Silva <juan.r.d.silva@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, 11 Jul 2016 12:25:00 +0200, Andre Majorel wrote:
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> It is obvious indeed. :-)
>
> The number were taken from Daily usage tab in gkrelm. Before making the
> test I had purposely not accessed Internet that day (except loading the
> page with the movie certainly). Thus gkrelm only showed a couple of
> dozens of MB due to some minor local network activity, which I ignored.
>
> I've already submitted a bug to Mozilla but was interesting to listen to
> community. If I've experienced some abnormal Firefox behaviour is not
> very likely that mine was totally unique experience.
>
> I'd hate to switch to Google Chrome from Firefox, since the last is my
> favourite.
>
In about:config you could try setting network.prefetch-next to false.
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