SPDY protocol appeared in Firefox Nightly

    Another browser is close to implementing support for the protocol SPDY - add-on over HTTP 1.1, which speeds up the loading of web pages by 44-64% (according to Google tests).

    On December 3, Mozilla developers completed work, and from today, SPDY appeared in the Firefox Nightly test build. By default, it is turned off, but you can activate it in the about: config settings by switching the network.http.spdy.enabled flag to true .



    Mozilla developers are at a loss to sayin which version of Firefox SPDY will be enabled by default. They say that testing will last a long time because “very important SPDY sites are working on the Internet” (read, Google sites) and you need to guarantee that Firefox works correctly with them.

    So far, Mozilla also does not have an understanding of which version of the draft SPDY to support, because this protocol still has experimental status and can change at any time. Google and Mozilla are working together to introduce a consistent version of the standard on the IETF.

    Google developed SPDY protocol (HTTP 1.2) since January 2011It is supported by both the Chrome browser and Google servers. Due to this, Chrome has been working on "native" sites for almost a year now much faster than other browsers. Perhaps this is one of the reasons why Chrome has recently been increasing its share of the browser market.

    Recall that SPDY (read as SPeeDY) allows you to halve the latency when working through HTTP. The overall acceleration of loading web pages is 44-64%. This is done through three methods: multiplexing requests; prioritization of requests; HTTP header compression.

    SPDY is an absolutely open protocol: the owners of any server can raise the corresponding proxy (for example, there is a module for Apache and a module for Node.JS), and developers of any browser are able to implement customer support. However, so far this technology has not received wide distribution outside of Chrome / Google.

    Andrey Alekseev from Nginx reports on the forum that support for SPDY is included in the nginx web server development program in the near future.

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