Firefox throttle FTW!

januari 24, 2010 at 19:48 in English (archived),Misc No comments

One of the great things in Adobe Flash is the bandwidth monitor which lets you control the bandwidth in your test movie and lets you test how well your swf runs on slow connections. Today I was testing a new website and I needed to see how it ran on slower connections. Bit of a search, but Firefox Throttle does exactly that! It lets you manage the max upload and download speed in firefox, and also shows you the speed at which your Firefox is downloading data from the web. Most importantly it allows you to limit the download speed on localhost to any speed you desire, which makes it the perfect tool to see how your development site works IRL.