Lightbeam: Anyone Discovering Interesting Connections?

[engine]

I installed Lightbeam quite a while back [webmasterworld.com] and I usually spend a short while analysing connections, especially when looking at something new, or if someone has reported an issue to investigate.

Either way, Lightbeam always turns out to be interesting, even if some of the connections are not surprising, but are expected.

If you're using Lighbeam, have you discovered anything interesting or surprising?

[keyplyr]

No longer user Firefox. It became too bloated for me.

Since I publish Adsense, I now use Chrome with the Adsense Publisher Toolbar, besides Chrome is super fast.

The Chrome version of Lightbeam (Collusion) hosted Conduit adware (I think) and was removed from support so the only way to use it is to hack. Not important enough to do so, so I never did and then forgot all about it :)

Seems like an interesting app though. Do you find any persistent HTTP connections from site to site? What has been the most surprising discovery? Anything at your own sites that you did not intend or were not aware of?

[tangor]

I try to keep my plugins lean these days (not because of bloat, but because the third party folks aren't keeping up with the rapid release schedule at Mozilla. I am intrigued that FF remains the best browser ( [itpro.co.uk...] ) and if Lightbeam is up-to-date might play with it again.

Thanks for the reminder!

[keyplyr]

As the web continues toward mobile dominance, as a web professional it makes sense to use the browser inherent to most mobile devices... Google Chrome.

I could care less if some article deems FF the "best" browser. I know absolutely noone using FF on mobile. I tried it but it had an odd looking strip at the top of the screen.

There's nothing wrong with FF and for a long time it was a good choice for web developers due to a few extensions that were not offered on the others, but that has changed.

The Web Developers Tool Bar on Chrome is much more robust than the FF offering (I know, I have both) and just the fact that most users are viewing the web using Chrome makes it the wiser choice.

FF displays some CSS undefined spacing different than Chrome, Edge or Safari. I had to redo a lot of work done with FF because of that. In fact, I can sometimes tell when web pages are built using FF.

I also really like how Chrome handles HTTPS warnings and the info distinguishing TLS from SSL. I'm still switching a few more sites to secure and Chrome handles the QA better.

Chrome is so much faster than FF was what really won me over. It was like night and day and I haven't gone back.

Sorry about the topic drift.

[engine]

Upon viewing a site pre-inspection for a full review I discovered a number of connections. All seemed fine, at first.
Yes, most were fine, however, there was one erroneous connection that the site owner knew nothing about. It turned out his site was hacked with a fair percentage of pages containing hidden connections.
It's a quick way to check out a site.