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I recently came across this blog post which basically says that we should not GZip content before it is sent to FireFox. The reason why is because FireFox performs poorly with GZipped content. I was very surprised to hear this.
Does anyone know if there is any validity to this blog post?
This seems like it might help some people (if it’s still true) who have fast enough connections for this to not matter. If you have a 100KB page and the person downloading it has a connection that downloads at 5 KB a second I bet that person hopes you weren’t trying to do him a favor by not gzipping your content. There’s also the bandwidth savings on your end to consider too. It seems like a bad idea to disable it for anyone.