New Browser Quadruples Surfing Speed


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DUBLIN (AFP) - A computer browser that is said to least quadruple surfing speeds on the Internet has won the top prize at an Irish exhibition for young scientists, it was announced on Saturday.

Adnan Osmani, 16, a student at Saint Finian's College in Mullingar, central Ireland spent 18 months writing 780,000 lines of computer code to develop the browser. Known as "XWEBS", the system works with an ordinary Internet connection using a 56K modem on a normal telephone line.

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i think it's BS.

Media integration? i think he simply put the windows media player activex plugin and that's all.

About the browser speed.. i dont think he did anything spectacular. he probably used something like multi-part downloading like flashget/dap plus do..

total bollox...

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ill believe it when i see it.

that's what i was thinking

[sarcasm] Maybe he's a Ralien. Makes a whole lot of fuss. Draws media attention. Then doesn't show anyproof.

Anyone consider that while running the demo he wasn't using a 56k line but a 256K ISDN Line? [/sarcasm]

Let's see....so he was about 14 when he came up w/ the idea himself and started coding. That's 1000 lines of code for 18 months assuming no big mistakes were made and having to go back and fix them. Now 1000 lines of code, to think through type up say it takes about 1 hour which would mean he spent 780 hours on the computer or 32.5 days (24/7) of coding. Somehow, if his way is so revolutionary, surely someone would already have thought about it. I'm not even accounting for any brainstorming, time to learn any computer language, etc.

Either its going to die a fast death or he's going to Harvard. I don't think he's going to Harvard.

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that is a load of bull, just based on the ammount of lines of code. nt was 3 million lines of code, so I highly doubt one kid did 780k...

plus, i'm sure there's a fair ammount of caching going on. he says it crashes if he turns it up to a seven-fold boost. Yeah, that sounds like multi-part to me. and that DOESN'T help a 56k modem worth crap...

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I'd love it if he was some sort of reclusive geek who really did write 780,000 lines of code and the browser does exactly what it says. Just to see what all the sceptics say ;)

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As toxikk said, I'll believe it when i see it. Just thought this would also be interesting, I found this interesting app the other day, http://www.surfision.com/, Well, someone told me it speeds up your connection, even if you're on 56k, so I thought must be another of one of those cliche speed-boosting apps , i said hell I'd just try it anyways, and it turns out it actually does have a small noticable increase, it also relies on some kind of a compression technology, on their (server) side. Try it out..

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I'd love it if he was some sort of reclusive geek who really did write 780,000 lines of code and the browser does exactly what it says. Just to see what all the sceptics say ;)

Yeah, all the sceptics would be: :o :o :o :o :o :o :o :o :o

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:cry: it makes the front page n i get no recognition :cry:

ah well at least i know i posted it 1st :p

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Adnan says a six-fold increase is about the maximum practical boost.

"At seven times it actually crashes so I have limited it to six."

sounds like regular gzip comression :rolleyes: or if not gzip something similar..

all media player and dvd integration, big freakin deal. how often do you watch videos WHILE browsing?

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Surely changing the server end would be the only way to increase the speed of downloading, don't really see how a different browser could increase the speed webpages load.

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:D

Check this out! A 16 year-old Irish school boy has written a Web browser called XWEBS. It's 6 times faster then IE, Netscape and all the rest.

He won the young scientist award for his school in Ireland, a highly regarded prize. He seems to be a bright boy because he has patented the ideas :devil: and has asperations to go to Havard University.

Sadly he's not releasing it to the public and is in talks with companies... so looks like he has sold out. Maybe school needs to teach the benefits of Open-Source at an early age :D

http://newsobserver.com/24hour/technology/...p-5244591c.html

or

http://www.infosatellite.com/news/2003/01/...perbrowser.html

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personally, i don't believe in this nonsense. how can you view webpages faster than what your internet line can physically handle?

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