Author Topic: FoxyMeter June competition (Read 10294 times)

Broni · « **on:** May 26, 2008, 09:04:55 PM »

How far have you surfed?...
Install FoxyMeter Firefox add-on: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/3411

This adds a dashboard like odometer to your status bar which increments every time you view a new page. Place your mouse over the display to see how many pages you view per day.

Let's check at the end of June what's your daily average is.

I just installed it few minutes ago, so my total count/average stands at 10/10.

Zylstra · « **Reply #1 on:** May 26, 2008, 09:10:06 PM »

Cool, Ill take part in this.

10 pages so far!

Carbon Dudeoxide · « **Reply #2 on:** May 27, 2008, 02:56:51 AM »

Quote

Cool, Ill take part in this.

Same here.

Broni · « **Reply #3 on:** May 27, 2008, 06:49:22 PM »

Current count: 234

Computer Hope Admin · « **Reply #4 on:** May 27, 2008, 09:31:08 PM »

I like it. Lets make this our June competition. It would be nice if we could reset it at the beginning of the month. A challenge for those of you who want to figure out how to reset it. Sure it's stored in some type of configuration file.

Moving this topic to Other, making sticky, changing Subject.

Broni · « **Reply #5 on:** May 27, 2008, 09:37:12 PM »

Thanks for an upgrade

I think, if we stick to "average pages per day" instead of "total", it shouldn't matter, when anyone started.

Carbon Dudeoxide · « **Reply #6 on:** May 27, 2008, 10:15:39 PM »

2348....

That looks bad

It appears refreshing pages count...

Computer Hope Admin · « **Reply #7 on:** May 27, 2008, 10:55:15 PM »

Yeah also updates when you go back too. Well just pretend it's not there and don't cheat.

Carbon Dudeoxide · « **Reply #8 on:** May 27, 2008, 11:09:57 PM »

Quote from: Computer Hope Admin on May 27, 2008, 10:55:15 PM

Yeah also updates when you go back too. Well just pretend it's not there and don't cheat.

I'm too busy looking at Moustron.....and now gonna have a look at Pitaschio

Kip · « **Reply #9 on:** May 28, 2008, 12:54:11 PM »

Quote from: Computer Hope Admin on May 27, 2008, 09:31:08 PM

A challenge for those of you who want to figure out how to reset it.

To reset the counter...

Type "about:config" in the address bar.
Type "fmeter" in the filter bar.
Set "fmeter.cnt" to "0" and set "fmeter.date" to the current date.

Computer Hope Admin · « **Reply #10 on:** May 28, 2008, 01:41:14 PM »

Nice work Kip!!! So those of you who want to reset at the beginning of the month can now follow Kips instructions or like Broni said we can just use the average count.

Broni · « **Reply #11 on:** May 28, 2008, 05:44:45 PM »

We can use both. I think the average will be more fair, in case someone won't start the count at the beginning of June.
Total-493, avg-246 here....just as a warm up

Computer Hope Admin · « **Reply #12 on:** May 28, 2008, 05:50:52 PM »

Still on my first day at 993.

Broni · « **Reply #13 on:** May 28, 2008, 08:25:32 PM »

That's a lot

Zylstra · « **Reply #14 on:** May 29, 2008, 05:06:14 PM »

577 now... That was mainly yesterday, and hardly any from today (Just turned my computer on)

Broni · « **Reply #15 on:** May 29, 2008, 07:06:49 PM »

Total: 1057, avg: 352

Carbon Dudeoxide · « **Reply #16 on:** May 29, 2008, 07:10:24 PM »

Total: 6074.

I think I'm a rogue. You can ignore me when it comes to the competition...unless

Zylstra · « **Reply #17 on:** May 30, 2008, 06:18:05 PM »

1139
That was a jump..

Broni · « **Reply #18 on:** May 30, 2008, 06:19:52 PM »

T.: 2028, A.: 507

Broni · « **Reply #19 on:** June 01, 2008, 10:29:00 PM »

Average grew up nicely over the weekend - 735
Telling the thruth, this is a nice tool. I had no idea, I could click on so many pages...

Broni · « **Reply #20 on:** June 07, 2008, 07:05:01 PM »

Average pretty steady - 763

Computer Hope Admin · « **Reply #21 on:** June 07, 2008, 10:46:33 PM »

Fell behind at 542 avg

Broni · « **Reply #22 on:** June 07, 2008, 10:48:27 PM »

Went up today, to 789.

Zylstra · « **Reply #23 on:** June 07, 2008, 11:00:22 PM »

4719 total

Computer Hope Admin · « **Reply #24 on:** June 07, 2008, 11:03:06 PM »

I'm up to 6033, I think me loosing my main Internet connection for two days killed my average.

Carbon Dudeoxide · « **Reply #25 on:** June 07, 2008, 11:05:21 PM »

21502 WOOT!!!

That's sad.

Broni · « **Reply #26 on:** June 07, 2008, 11:07:27 PM »

Total: 9508
What's your average, Carbon?

Carbon Dudeoxide · « **Reply #27 on:** June 07, 2008, 11:13:52 PM »

1794

Broni · « **Reply #28 on:** June 07, 2008, 11:16:05 PM »

Porn sites don't count

Carbon Dudeoxide · « **Reply #29 on:** June 07, 2008, 11:21:08 PM »

Awww man, then it would be like 43 sites a day

CBMatt · « **Reply #30 on:** June 10, 2008, 08:40:59 PM »

This would be useful to me if I ever used Firefox.

Computer Hope Admin · « **Reply #31 on:** June 10, 2008, 10:06:23 PM »

Which browser do you use Chris? IE?

CBMatt · « **Reply #32 on:** June 11, 2008, 03:04:19 AM »

Yessir, I am loyal to IE6. I can't seem to find an alternative to this add-on.

Computer Hope Admin · « **Reply #33 on:** June 11, 2008, 02:04:41 PM »

Yeah I couldn't either. I really think it's a sign that you need to give FF a shot.

Zylstra · « **Reply #34 on:** June 11, 2008, 02:25:38 PM »

I am now finally starting to learn away from IE.

FireFox has added a few features that have caused me to want to stay...

Community created Addons, for one
The look and feel in the new BETA version
Abilities to customize the backend of FireFox
Better function of Tabs (eg: The X to close a tab doesnt disappear once you click off it)
Better History functions (abilities to open "Recently Closed Tabs" is one of my favorite)
And SPELL CHECK!

In fact, if it werent for spell check in FireFox, I wouldent even be using it.

I personally found that on this computer, IE7 loads faster than FireFox. I keep FireFox portable with me at all times just for the convenience of knowing Windows' "Remember my Password" wont start writing things down for me on a public computer, and I know my favorites will stay intact as well. (Oh, and ComputerHope logs in automatically without any hassle)

CBMatt · « **Reply #35 on:** June 11, 2008, 06:09:56 PM »

Quote from: Computer Hope Admin on June 11, 2008, 02:04:41 PM

Yeah I couldn't either. I really think it's a sign that you need to give FF a shot.

Anytime I use broadband on someone's laptop, I use Firefox because it seems more convenient to me based on what I'm usually doing (downloading tons of music on Hype Machine). And I use it when designing web sites because of the Web Developer Toolbar, as well as for compatibility reasons.

But I just cannot get myself to switch to FF as my default browser. I don't like the layout or the menus or the way certain things display, and I also think it loads way too slowly. It takes almost a minute to load it for the first time. IE6 takes maybe 3 seconds. FF has all sorts of useful features, but I just don't need any of them (aside from WDT), so they simply don't sway me. I'll admit that despite disliking it for a long time, I do indeed think that FF is a great browser, but it's just not for me. Maybe someday.

BC_Programmer · « **Reply #36 on:** June 28, 2008, 07:50:04 PM »

Quote from: CBMatt on June 11, 2008, 06:09:56 PM

It takes almost a minute to load it for the first time. IE6 takes maybe 3 seconds.

Firefox would probably load in 3 seconds too if 90% of it's code was already resident when you started it.

Computer Hope Admin · « **Reply #37 on:** June 29, 2008, 01:59:25 PM »

Quote from: BC_Programmer on June 28, 2008, 07:50:04 PM

Quote from: CBMatt on June 11, 2008, 06:09:56 PM
It takes almost a minute to load it for the first time. IE6 takes maybe 3 seconds.

Firefox would probably load in 3 seconds too if 90% of it's code was already resident when you started it.

Has that ever been really proven? I've always interpreted that story of Microsoft using resident code as being another Microsoft urban myth. Although with the inability of being able to look at the source code probably couldn't really be proven.

BC_Programmer · « **Reply #38 on:** June 29, 2008, 04:49:50 PM »

Quote from: Computer Hope Admin on June 29, 2008, 01:59:25 PM

Quote from: BC_Programmer on June 28, 2008, 07:50:04 PM
Quote from: CBMatt on June 11, 2008, 06:09:56 PM
It takes almost a minute to load it for the first time. IE6 takes maybe 3 seconds.

Firefox would probably load in 3 seconds too if 90% of it's code was already resident when you started it.

Has that ever been really proven? I've always interpreted that story of Microsoft using resident code as being another Microsoft urban myth. Although with the inability of being able to look at the source code probably couldn't really be proven.

They aren't really doing it on purpose- it's just Explorer uses a bunch of Components of Internet Explorer, (unless they are forcibly removed). I don't think they ever did this with the intention of simply getting IE to load faster, they really truly wanted to integrate IE essentially as a convenience. Remember Active Desktop?

And since IE and windows are so modular, it's easy to at least see something that really shouldn't be loaded (not as many as I expected)- view attached image. As we see here, IEFrame.dll is loaded into the explorer process. And yet I haven't even run Internet Explorer at all! And that is JUST the explorer process itself. I'm sure some other core processes are referencing IE dll files as well.

I might have exaggerated, it isn't 90%, but it is definitely at least half.

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Computer Hope Admin · « **Reply #39 on:** July 01, 2008, 10:21:17 AM »

I ended up with an average of 485 and visiting 17,257 pages.

Kip · « **Reply #40 on:** July 01, 2008, 12:11:25 PM »

I have visited a total of 6275 sites at 209 per day.

Broni · « **Reply #41 on:** July 01, 2008, 11:14:58 PM »

I came up empty handed.
I installed FF3, realized, that many add-ons are not compatible, went back to FF2, and lost count.

Carbon Dudeoxide · « **Reply #42 on:** July 02, 2008, 06:24:43 AM »

I reset mine after installing TimeTracker.

It logs how long the browser has been on.

Zylstra · « **Reply #43 on:** July 04, 2008, 06:56:03 PM »

I did a reformat, and lost the count.

Oh well.. I wasnt to high up anyways

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