Wednesday 15 October 2008

Finch

Finch makes slow Internet bearable, by stripping away the fat of web pages, leaving just the content. It takes out CSS, images, flash, metadata, iframes, and more, meaning less for your computer to load.

For example, the New York Times homepage is over 110KB, and uses external resources that make it amount to about 1.4MB. Finch trims that down to 84KB, which doesn't look as pretty, but is 94% less for your computer to download. Pages viewed through Finch also won't run JavaScript, so AJAX apps like facebook definitely won't work, and at this stage sites using cookies won't function properly, meaning you won't be able to log in.

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