Matsuda Posted August 6, 2014 Share Posted August 6, 2014 Mozilla has been working on project Janus for some time without revealing much about it to the public. The goal of the project is to improve the browsing experience of the user. Here it is mobile users that Janus is targeting mainly but desktop users will gain access to the same technology as well.The official wiki entry lists the goals of the project:Reduce page load times Reduce bandwidth requirements Increase user privacy Increase responsiveness for slow sites. Reduce radio time.Like Opera Turbo and Max, and Google's Off-Road modus, it is making use of a proxy server that sits between the user's device and the Internet. Traffic flows through the proxy server, and several methods are used to ensure that the goals listed above are met.Among other things, this includes compressing images, text and certain types of streams, utilizing caching technologies, or reducing HTTPS round trips.Mozilla notes that compression should not have an impact on the visual quality of the image. This means that it will work well on images that are not optimized, while you may not see a large difference in size when it comes to images that have been optimized by the webmaster.The majority of features up until now are similar to other proxy technologies. Mozilla has additional ideas on how to improve it further. This includes converting gifs to videos to reduce their size, entering readability mode automatically for some sites, ad blocking, Opera Mini-like pre-rendering of pages, and adding support for adaptive-streaming (some items are already implemented, see update below)Mozilla has released an add-on that Firefox users can install to try out the proxy right now. It is only compatible with Firefox 33 and newer versions of the browser which means that only Aurora or Nightly users can install the proxy at the time of writing. The mobile version of the add-on is compatible with all versions of the Firefox browser from 32 on.All you need to do is install the add-on. The proxy is automatically enabled and will improve the browsing in the ways mentioned above. You can click on the icon to display information about traffic and the bandwidth savings. Here you can also disable the proxy.The proxy seems to work only on http websites at the time of writing and not on https sites.Update: you can enable ad blocking and gif to video conversions in the program options. Here you can also switch from bandwidth saving to low latency optimizations instead.ConclusionJanus is a very interesting project, not only for mobile versions of Firefox but desktop versions as well. While mobile users may benefit the most from it on average, as their connection speeds are usually lower and less reliable than on desktops, it may improve browsing all across the board thanks to the features that it offers.On top of the speed benefits, it is also improving user privacy in a number of ways. Since you are connecting to the proxy, it is the proxy's IP address that servers on the Internet interact with. This could be a game changer for Mozilla if implement and marketed correctly.Source: http://www.ghacks.net/2014/08/06/try-mozillas-janus-project-right-now-speed-browsing-save-bandwidth/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gamkutopolowk Posted August 6, 2014 Share Posted August 6, 2014 (edited) Firefox :showoff: vs chrome :rant: Edited August 6, 2014 by Gamkutopolowk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Smoore Posted August 7, 2014 Share Posted August 7, 2014 Very nice! I noticed some thru put issues and remembered installing Fasterfox. Restored the default settings and disabled Enhanced Prefetch as this could overload the Janus server and certainly cloud any results/benefits this offers. After disabling fasterfox extension and restarting, Janus truly is faster. Life without Firefox would suck! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RobrPatty Posted August 7, 2014 Share Posted August 7, 2014 (edited) Installed addon disabled fasterfox lite rebooted ff and now it won't load nsaneforums! Diabled addon and bingo right back to nsane.Update: disabled peerblock and now proxy is open. I'm back on nsane with addon enabled. PeerBlock was the problem not the addon.Nice post Adriano Edited August 7, 2014 by RobrPatty Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SPECTRUM Posted August 7, 2014 Share Posted August 7, 2014 Installed addon disabled fasterfox lite rebooted ff and now it won't load nsaneforums! Diabled addon and bingo right back to nsane. Update: disabled peerblock and now proxy is open. I'm back on nsane with addon enabled. PeerBlock was the problem not the addon. Nice post Adriano seems you forgot to enable "Allow HTTP" in PeerBlock. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
donkey-girl Posted August 7, 2014 Share Posted August 7, 2014 Can some nice guy ore girl give me a link to the addon file so I can download it to my Collection :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rudrax Posted August 7, 2014 Share Posted August 7, 2014 Can some nice guy ore girl give me a link to the addon file so I can download it to my Collection :)https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/janus-proxy-configurator/Right-click on the "Add to Firefox", copy the link location, paste it to IDM and download. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
edwardecl Posted August 7, 2014 Share Posted August 7, 2014 Awesome, useful from unblocking sites :). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrator DKT27 Posted August 7, 2014 Administrator Share Posted August 7, 2014 That's one big thing. In countries like India, where the internet is so slow and expensive, this can help a lot.Don't like the adblocker part though. That feature should only be enabled for mobiles, as ads are the only source of income for some sites.Very nice! I noticed some thru put issues and remembered installing Fasterfox. Restored the default settings and disabled Enhanced Prefetch as this could overload the Janus server and certainly cloud any results/benefits this offers. After disabling fasterfox extension and restarting, Janus truly is faster. Life without Firefox would suck!The Firefox developers should also take that into consideration. First thing is to advice users to stop using Fasterfox when using Janus and second is to reset all the about:config entries concerned with the working of this project. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
anakin206 Posted August 8, 2014 Share Posted August 8, 2014 Can some nice guy ore girl give me a link to the addon file so I can download it to my Collection :)https://www.cubbyusercontent.com/pli/janus_proxy_configurator-1.3-an%2bfx-windows.xpi/_9fc973d5800f46739452cddb1c33cdd6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RobrPatty Posted August 8, 2014 Share Posted August 8, 2014 Installed addon disabled fasterfox lite rebooted ff and now it won't load nsaneforums! Diabled addon and bingo right back to nsane.Update: disabled peerblock and now proxy is open. I'm back on nsane with addon enabled. PeerBlock was the problem not the addon.Nice post Adrianoseems you forgot to enable "Allow HTTP" in PeerBlock.Nope it was enabled. Even removed "proxy list". Finally decided that Peer Block was more important than this addon so removed it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Smoore Posted August 8, 2014 Share Posted August 8, 2014 Some work great and a few would not load with Janus. Expected this as it is still alpha and will test it later on in development. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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