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An Even Faster Browser?

Posted by Cliff on from the living-up-to-the-hype dept.

octavian755 asks: "Seems that a 16-year-old Irish student has created an Internet browser called XWEB, which is the fastest browser known to date. This browser is said to be capable of boosting surfing speeds on a dial-up connection by 100 to 500 percent. What I would like to know is something like this even possible?" Update: 01/20 07:30 GMT by C : As folks have pointed out, this story is a duplicate. Also, a minor title gaffe corrected. Sorry about that.

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  1. Already Covered on /. by grantdh · · Score: 5, Informative

    What, weren't the responses given the last time this was posted enough???

    Damn, even I remember this one and I'm notorious for my short term memory loss. Who was smoking what when this one got posted? :)

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    1. Re:Already Covered on /. by jsse · · Score: 5, Funny

      Calm down, I see the differences:

      1) This is posted by Cliff, last time it was posted by Hemos. Isn't it a pity when those who blocked Cliff's or Hemos missed this great news? The news will be reposted by Taco very soon, so he majority who blocked both Cliff and Hemos will not miss it
      2) Last time we don't have typo in the headline. This is very untolerable for slashdot readers
      3) This time we've same article from other source. Slashdot editors must make sure they don't miss any reference to great news like that
      4) Last time Hemos said 'Quadruples Surfing Speed', today Cliff found out that it can actually boost the speed up to 500% percent! This is definitely an improvement and should be posted as a follow-up

  2. It's so fast... by Hubert_Shrump · · Score: 5, Funny

    It warps time, and reports itself again!

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  3. Hey Cliff by presearch · · Score: 5, Funny

    Hey Cliff.
    You oughta, like, read Slashdot more often.

  4. Re:The easy explaination... by stevey · · Score: 5, Insightful
    Now, even the best coders only do ~100 lines of code per day...

    That's not true; some coders may write 500, some may write 50, and others may write only five.

    I'm not even that sure it is worth measuring the lines of code written as a performance indicator either; I've had days at work where I've written only one line of code - but it was the line to solve a random threading deadlock; and so it was the correct line to write.