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Mozilla 1.7 Beta Is Faster And Smaller
ccady writes "Mozilla 1.7 beta is out. Not too many new features, but "Mozilla 1.7 size and performance have improved dramatically with this release. When compared to Mozilla 1.6, Mozilla 1.7 Beta is 7% faster at startup, is 8% faster at window open time, has 9% faster pageloading times, and is 5% smaller in binary size." I'll be downloading it."
Go Go Mozilla!
You know where you are? You're in the $PATH, baby. You're gonna get executed!
Wow, I got here first using 1.6. Looks like some people will need 1.7 to get here faster next time
"Not too many new features, but "Mozilla 1.7 size and performance have improved dramatically with this release. When compared to Mozilla 1.6, Mozilla 1.7 Beta is 7% faster at startup, is 8% faster at window open time, has 9% faster pageloading times, and is 5% smaller in binary size." I'll be downloading it.""
Not if we get there first.
I hear its got 20% more zilla too!
Statistics than you'll ever need...
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The next service pack of Internet Explorer plans to have longer load times, more crashes, and open a few more exploits into a Windows system.
Modzilla keeps getting better all the time.
I got here so fast using konqueror that the server hadn't even recorded my post by the time I left.
When compared to Mozilla 1.6, Lynx is 99% faster at startup, 99% faster at window open time, has 50% faster pageloading times, and is 90% smaller in binary size.
In all seriousness, it's easy to improve figures like this just by removing features.
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The fastest speed up is not even 10%. That's about an extra 0.01 tits/second. Want more speedup than that.
Engineering is the art of compromise.
On the one hand, the dodo. On the other hand, the road-runner.
And in a crash-hole between them, the coyote.
The next service pack of Internet Explorer plans to have 25% longer load times, 120% more crashes, and open 58% more exploits into a Windows system.
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More like my-site-will-remain-obscure-amatic.
Admittedly, I get most of my site's hits from Slashdot, but I find a rather pleasant mix of Gecko, Mozilla, Opera, Apple Webkit, and occasionally someone using IE. Actually, I think Google surfs my site more than anyone. (I did tell "Slurp" to take a flying leap.) Of course it does flop over to nearly 80% IE from time to time, but I've also noticed that IE users are only interested in some file named cmd.exe or root.exe, and I've never offered either of those files from this box. It must be a Microsoft thing...
Personally I'm hooked on using Firefox, but I design my pages to look good in any light. ;-)
After the news is released on Slashdot, it's now 40% slower to download. :D
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99% less than IE does
And this should serve as a warning to anyone else who thinks about getting stoned and posting here.
Gates' Law: Every 18 months, the speed of software halves.
I use Firefox and Thunderbird for all my stuff, but I definitely agree that TB has a way to go. The biggest problem that I've noticed is that occasionally it will just start acting slow, and I have to close it and start it up again.
That said, I love Firefox, and if I'm forced to use IE (say, on someone else's computer), I feel like killing people (its designers, mainly). Is that what they mean by "killer app"?
Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum sonatur.
Faster, smaller, and has fewer bugs!?
Will these people ever learn? Every version must either leave in the old bugs, or fix them but create more new ones. Bugs in this version are the reason people are going to pay for the next version, hoping they'll be fixed.
And of course performance improvements are a big mistake too. You want to make it slower and slower, so that people will buy new hardware, thereby driving sales of your OS, which is joined at the hip with your browser.
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Inconceivable!
You will not be able to go to a fair of almost any kind without seeing mozilla used (I've been to quite a few that had little or nothing to do with computers and seen mozilla or a browser using the gecko engine used).
You, my friend, have obviously not been to the Bandera County Rodeo and Fair. Absolutely no Mozillas to be found, though there are some nice heifers!
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I guess that makes it.....
29% Better!
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Don't Panic.
When compared to Mozilla 1.6, Mozilla 1.7 Beta is 7% faster at startup, is 8% faster at window open time, has 9% faster pageloading times, and is 5% smaller in binary size.
Now with 200% more statistics!
When was the last time IE was updated???? Hey that's a bad call. Microsoft updates IE almost every other week!!! What you meant was... "When was he last time IE was updated for reasons other than a security patch?"
How could I tell? There are no pages I could test it on...
Knowing Wile E. Coyote, I hope not. The very first thing he'd do is try to lurk inside there while he takes his Acme Bloody Huge Roadrunner-Slaying Device out of its infinite-capacity Acme shipping crate. The consequences of this sort of thing, I'm reliably informed by D&D geeks, are bad.
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