To support the Net panel Firebug intercepts analyzes Firefox traffic. This could cause network time overhead. It should have no affect on ping times, unless you measure the ping time during downloads where 'ping' may be measuring something other than network latency.
jjb On Aug 15, 5:31 pm, "bl.not.anon.firebugin" <[email protected]> wrote: > I've been bugged by this for awhile now. > > ...And, I don't know what could be causing this, but my pings & speeds > on speedtest.net are quite a bit different when using FB (I'm using FF > 3.6.8 with FB 1.5.4, but same has been happening since about FF 3.5 & > FB1.x?). > > Sample result: > w/ FB --> 11.02 Mb/s | ping 96ms > w/o FB --> 27.56 Mb/s | ping 9ms > > upload speed is also reduced but not as drastically. > > I realize the problem isn't actually changing network speed. However, > in Chrome, Safari, and IE the speeds are similar to FF without FB, FF > with FB always has pings that are 10x to 80x greater and the speed is > always reduced. > > I can't say when I noticed it first, but FB did not originally cause > this behavior when I started using it...sometime around FF 2.x era. > > What I don't understand is what it is doing to cause the differences. > Even if it's disabled for a site. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Firebug" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/firebug?hl=en.
