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Google Cuts Chrome Page Load Times In Half w/ SPDY

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the well-that-seems-optimistic dept.

An anonymous reader writes "It appears as if Google has quietly implemented the SPDY HTTP replacements in Chrome (well, we knew that), and its websites. All its websites were recently updated with SPDY features that address some of the HTTP latency issues. The result? Google says the pageload times were cut about in half. SPDY will be open source, so there is some hope that other browser manufacturers will add SPDY as well."

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  1. Re:Embrace, Extend, ? by bmo · · Score: 4, Insightful

    No, because the Microsoft way to embrace, extend, extinguish was to keep the "how to extend" part to itself and secret, like what they did with Kerberos.

    This is open sauced. You are free to implement it in your own stuff.

    You would have known that if you read the article.

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  2. Re:Have no page load problems by Dhalka226 · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Some people choose not to block ads.

  3. Re:Let's get this out of the way by CharlyFoxtrot · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I'll take a stab at it :

    Everything is sent through an encrypted channel making it difficult to filter out ads before they hit the client (like with privoxy for example.)
    No cashing ("Since we're proposing to do almost everything over an encrypted channel, we're making caching either difficult or impossible." -Protocol Draft) means you'll be served "fresh" ads every time.

    So it looks like this would be good news for Google's core business.

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  4. SPDY - server push by ThePhilips · · Score: 4, Insightful

    My favorite part of the SPDY is server push: now advertisers can clog my internet channel and hog the browser with ads long before the AdBlock kicks in. Or a hacked site would host malware and load it onto potential victims harddrives in parallel to normal surfing. Imagination is the only limit - of how it can go wrong.

    For the security reasons, I think SPDY is a bad thing.

    And I'm personally not bothered with 1-2s loading times.

    P.S. The Chrome guys instead would have invested more times in the bookmarks, to make them useful. They could start by integrating Chrome with the Google Bookmarks.

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  5. Re:And this... by AmberBlackCat · · Score: 3, Insightful

    With Honeycomb, doesn't Google have a history of saying things will be released as open source, and then not releasing the source?