FIREFOX MESSAGE OF IMPORT
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Anonymous Coward
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After you have gone to work I secretly wander into your house. Since Suzy is eleven you have decided she is old enough to take care of herself. This makes it very easy to garrote her without fear of an unwanted intruder. As she lay suffocating and dying, I insert my throbbing cock into her tiny vagina. I can feel her flesh tear as I force myself into her. Quickly, I pull in and out, her tiny box turning into a bloody mess. I exchange glances with her purple breathless face, only to look back again at her lovely bleeding pussy. I finish before she is dead and decide to put her out of her misery. I grab a hammer from your garage and slowly raise my arm above her tiny frame, striking down on her square inbetween the eyes.
Seriously. It's fast becoming the XP Home of browsers. Too bad neither the fanboys nor the development team realizes this. It could've been a nice browser, smaller and faster than SeaMonkey. It lost its way around the time they renamed it "Firefox." Now it's just SeaMonkey with memory leaks (yeah yeah it's a feature) and an incomplete, annoying interface.
No, I don't care that I'll get modded down for criticizing Firefox.
-- Slashdot - where to disagree, is to be a troll
Re:Dumbed down again
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Khyber
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Firefox? Being simplified?
I don't think so - it's getting far more bloated. Note how between 32 and 64 bit windows versions of Firefox, the 64 bit binary is nearly DOUBLE the size of the 32-bit binary. Now tell me this, do you REALLY need to double the amount of code in order to use 64-bit? Well, looking at UT2K4, They just made an extra binary that was only an additional 19 or so megs to give 64-bit support and enhancements. That's 19 megs as opposed to tacking on another 2.5 GIGS to give UT2K4 64-bit support. In comparison to Firefox, UT2K4's 64-bit version is a paltry 0.03% addition, whereas Firefox is nearly a full 100% increase in size.
You can't tell me Firefox is getting simpler when the code is increasingly becoming more bloated. Do some program comparisons sometimes - especially noting the specific size of the installed program. You'll quickly figure it out.
I'm just glad the folks over at Epic realize that just because you have double the registers to process data, you don't need to double the size of your code to take advantage of them. People working on Firefox might need to take a few clues from Epic on code optimization and efficiency.
-- Still waiting on Serviscope_minor to wake up to fucking reality and realize that Jessica Price isn't going to fuck him.
Re:Dumbed down again
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Anonymous Coward
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Yeah right. 60 Megs for a few tabs. Save tabs in a bookmark folder, close firefox, restart and reload tabs. Tada, only 30 Megs. Care to explain why firefox had to keep an extra 30 Megs loaded? It's a fucking joke.
First hand experience: I used FF on a 128 Meg linux laptop. 1.0 could become unusable after 1 hour of dial-up browsing. 1.5 seems a bit less shit. Still, whereever I use it, I have to remember to regularly shut it, because it got less reliability than Windows 95. Other browsers (like opera) might not be better. FF still remains a fucking piece of shit.
For most users, speed is a minor issue as long as it's perceived to be fast enough. And response times from the distant website (not infrequently in the second+ range) typically swamps local things like redraw speed.
It matters, because frequently on Firefox opening more than 7 tabs at once means your CPU pegged on 100% and sometimes it even locks up the browser for a minute or so.
I'm still using Firefox since I'm lazy: all stored passwords and history and visited addresses and cookies... it's kinda making it hard for me to switch to Opera at once. But damn, the moment 0pera9 is out, I am switching.
Also the more I investigate the issue, the more IE7 seems a viable choice on Vista. IE was always a very fast browser (and noone gimme the crap about "preloaded" components because I do not mean startup times).
I'm a web developer and keep all sorts of browsers on my machine, but I didn't start using FF in favor of IE until IE started getting new "just visit the site and you're set" holes every week.
When IE is secured, and with the new improved standards support, I think I'll welcome IE again as my default browser.
I hope the developers said a big thank you to
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Timesprout
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Opera for all the ideas, and the lesson in what users actually like in UI design
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Re:Here's something to fix
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Anonymous Coward
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You got the wrong browser. Firefox sucks. The only things that seems to matter is adding crap. I don't need any fucking spellcheckers either. Firefox, the browser for assholes who can't spell. Next version will be for those who can't write or read, I guess.
1. Get a UPS. (for the modem too) 2. Keep toddlers and wild monkeys away from the power cords. 3. Install a respectable operating system.
don't "F" with the big F
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Anonymous Coward
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You must have thought you were posting your message here: http://www.microsoft.com
On Slashdot, such posts are considered blasphemous and will be ignored, or downmodded into oblivion.
Even though if IE7 had a similar "feature" the fanbois on here would be decrying it for exactly the same reason you stated.
Re:Couple of questions
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ashayh
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Blame it on GTK. I use Firefox simultaneously, on similarly configured XP and Linux machines. They use the same monitor through a KVM switch. FF on Windows XP is lightning fast and dog slow on Linux (Fedora 5 GNOME for now).
While I applaud the efforts of people who worked hard on GIMP/GTK/GNOME and all related technologies, fact remains that they are dog slow on the same hardware when compared to Windows and QT.
On top of all this, most distros insist on making GNOME the default and KDE the bastard child.
That still makes KDE zippier and therefore more usable.
There are so many things wrong with GTK, the file open/save dialog and the utter wastage of whitespace are the first to come to mind.
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After you have gone to work I secretly wander into your house. Since Suzy is eleven you have decided she is old enough to take care of herself. This makes it very easy to garrote her without fear of an unwanted intruder. As she lay suffocating and dying, I insert my throbbing cock into her tiny vagina. I can feel her flesh tear as I force myself into her. Quickly, I pull in and out, her tiny box turning into a bloody mess. I exchange glances with her purple breathless face, only to look back again at her lovely bleeding pussy. I finish before she is dead and decide to put her out of her misery. I grab a hammer from your garage and slowly raise my arm above her tiny frame, striking down on her square inbetween the eyes.
Firefox dumbed down again, film at 11.
Seriously. It's fast becoming the XP Home of browsers. Too bad neither the fanboys nor the development team realizes this. It could've been a nice browser, smaller and faster than SeaMonkey. It lost its way around the time they renamed it "Firefox." Now it's just SeaMonkey with memory leaks (yeah yeah it's a feature) and an incomplete, annoying interface.
No, I don't care that I'll get modded down for criticizing Firefox.
Slashdot - where to disagree, is to be a troll
For most users, speed is a minor issue as long as it's perceived to be fast enough. And response times from the distant website (not infrequently in the second+ range) typically swamps local things like redraw speed.
It matters, because frequently on Firefox opening more than 7 tabs at once means your CPU pegged on 100% and sometimes it even locks up the browser for a minute or so.
I'm still using Firefox since I'm lazy: all stored passwords and history and visited addresses and cookies... it's kinda making it hard for me to switch to Opera at once. But damn, the moment 0pera9 is out, I am switching.
Also the more I investigate the issue, the more IE7 seems a viable choice on Vista. IE was always a very fast browser (and noone gimme the crap about "preloaded" components because I do not mean startup times).
I'm a web developer and keep all sorts of browsers on my machine, but I didn't start using FF in favor of IE until IE started getting new "just visit the site and you're set" holes every week.
When IE is secured, and with the new improved standards support, I think I'll welcome IE again as my default browser.
Opera for all the ideas, and the lesson in what users actually like in UI design
Do not try to read the dupe, thats impossible. Instead, only try to realize the truth
What truth?
There is no dupe
You got the wrong browser. Firefox sucks. The only things that seems to matter is adding crap. I don't need any fucking spellcheckers either. Firefox, the browser for assholes who can't spell. Next version will be for those who can't write or read, I guess.
This should encourage you to fix your ways.
1. Get a UPS. (for the modem too)
2. Keep toddlers and wild monkeys away from the power cords.
3. Install a respectable operating system.
You must have thought you were posting your message here:
http://www.microsoft.com
On Slashdot, such posts are considered blasphemous and will be ignored, or downmodded into oblivion.
Even though if IE7 had a similar "feature" the fanbois on here would be decrying it for exactly the same reason you stated.
Blame it on GTK. I use Firefox simultaneously, on similarly configured XP and Linux machines. They use the same monitor through a KVM switch. FF on Windows XP is lightning fast and dog slow on Linux (Fedora 5 GNOME for now) .
While I applaud the efforts of people who worked hard on GIMP/GTK/GNOME and all related technologies, fact remains that they are dog slow on the same hardware when compared to Windows and QT.
On top of all this, most distros insist on making GNOME the default and KDE the bastard child. That still makes KDE zippier and therefore more usable.
There are so many things wrong with GTK, the file open/save dialog and the utter wastage of whitespace are the first to come to mind.