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Originally Posted by madame_newbie
Okay, I am not sure if this a bug but I noticed that whenever I tried to download a very image heavy fic from AO3, it takes a very, very long time. ...
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The
slow_down_sleep_time setting (AO3 default: 2sec) applies: ie, FFF sleeps that long between making network requests. So if a chapter has 150 images, it will take
at least 300sec (5 minutes)--and probably more--just for that one chapter.
It's also entirely possible that the image hosting server adds more delay by serving the images slowly if it notices you hitting it a lot. Or is just slow in general.
When you say "downloading the fic via html" do you mean the "Download > HTML" site button, or using FFF's html mode?
FFF doesn't know the image size until
after it's been downloaded. In theory, FFF could make an HTTP HEAD request, but not all sites implement it. I'm not much interested in trying.