Discussion on Pre-load Image Links | Userscripts.org

Archived Comments, replied by JoeSimmons @ Wed, 15 Oct 2008 00:26:31 -0500

JoeSimmons — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 00:26:31 -0500

You're welcome bro. And yeah, it wont overload servers because you're going to click on the picture links and load them anyway. Plus, once they're loaded, they wont need to load again if you have a big cache enabled so it's not flooding the servers.

Archived Comments, replied by Mark2007 @ Tue, 14 Oct 2008 22:26:17 -0500

Mark2007 — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 22:26:17 -0500

Well, I'll be darn Joe! You did it! I used an adult website (that I won't name) that had a page of small thumbnails that when clicked would load the large size of that picture. It works! Now I don't need Fasterfox unless it's for the page load timer... and, people worry so much (I don't) about Fasterfox overloading servers etc, etc.. With your nifty script I can specify just the few galleries I'm interested in pre-loading and not pre-load everything (unless I want to). Way to go and again thank you so much for this script. I think a lot of people will be interested in this new feature.

Archived Comments, replied by JoeSimmons @ Tue, 14 Oct 2008 20:07:02 -0500

JoeSimmons — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 20:07:02 -0500

Mark2007, the script should now pre-load images that are linked to on the page also. You can test it if you want. Tell me if it works or not. If not, please tell me what the url is on the gallery you're viewing.

Archived Comments, replied by Mark2007 @ Tue, 14 Oct 2008 18:46:09 -0500

Mark2007 — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 18:46:09 -0500

Thank you Sir, I appreciate that.

Archived Comments, replied by JoeSimmons @ Tue, 14 Oct 2008 12:33:03 -0500

JoeSimmons — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 12:33:03 -0500

It should work for photo galleries (depending if the thumbnail is just a sized down version of where the link brings you.
I know what you mean though. I should pre-load links to images on the page too. I'll work on that script.
In the meantime Mark2007, I hacked the Fasterfox compatibility so you can run it on FF3. The download link is here. Download it, open it with Firefox, and install.

Archived Comments, replied by Mark2007 @ Tue, 14 Oct 2008 09:21:23 -0500

Mark2007 — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 09:21:23 -0500

I would love to have something like this to pre-load images from photo gallery pages of thumbnails so they "jump" on the screen when the thumbnail is clicked because they are being pulled from my Firefox cache. I miss not being able to use Fasterfox (in FF3.0.3) just for that feature and the page load timer. With a GM script I could be selective about which sites (gallery Image sites) to run it, but it's not doing that for me. Perhaps I'm missing something? Should it work with thumbnail gallery sites? Also..., thank you for all the scripts you have written!

Archived Comments, replied by JoeSimmons @ Sat, 04 Oct 2008 23:15:51 -0500

JoeSimmons — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 23:15:51 -0500

I don't want to re-download though, I just want them to download asap.

Archived Comments, replied by avg @ Thu, 02 Oct 2008 20:31:41 -0500

avg — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 20:31:41 -0500

(I think) that a) because document.images would be better because all the images are loaded there anyway. and b) (im guessing) that appending the source location will force it to redownload, and a pound (#) "negates" anything to the right

Archived Comments, replied by JoeSimmons @ Thu, 02 Oct 2008 19:40:02 -0500

JoeSimmons — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 19:40:02 -0500

Why document.images[i].src+="#load"?

Archived Comments, replied by avg @ Thu, 02 Oct 2008 14:33:49 -0500

avg — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 14:33:49 -0500

how about:

for(var i=0;i<document.images.length;i++) document.images[i].src+="#load"

Archived Comments, replied by JoeSimmons @ Tue, 02 Sep 2008 11:48:21 -0500

JoeSimmons — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 11:48:21 -0500

No, Greasemonkey scripts start before the page is loaded, hence why some people add onLoad listeners to their scripts.

Archived Comments, replied by easier_rhino @ Fri, 22 Aug 2008 00:17:26 -0500

easier_rhino — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 00:17:26 -0500

Just curious; does it even work? Because usually when I have a Greasemonkey script active, it only begins working after the page has already loaded. I mean, it's a decent idea, I just don't see that it would ever make things faster. Now you could write a script which would preload all the linked images and let them load more quickly when you clicked on the link, and I could see that working, although on an image-link-intensive page, it would be slow.

Archived Comments, replied by Jesse Andrews @ Tue, 16 Nov 2004 19:05:57 -0600

Jesse Andrews — Tue, 16 Nov 2004 19:05:57 -0600

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