IE Sends Cake to Firefox 2 Team

GDI Lord writes "The Microsoft Internet Explorer Team sent the Firefox team a cake for the release of Firefox 2! "P.S.: No, it was not poisoned" " That they know of anyway.

Comments

Talk about a much-improved quote..

[T-Ranger]

The Explorer team also left a greeting card with the picture of a grumpy baby with the note: ``It's just not fair. Good people shouldn't have to feel bad. Best wishes, the IE team.'' [an error occurred while processing this directive] A helium-filled balloon taped to the logo reads, ``We love you.'' How history changes in 9 years.

Non-slashdotted picture

[jsoderba]

The picture is hosted on flickr.

Re:CAKE OR DEATH!

[Ekhymosis]

For those who didn't get the reference, it's from Eddie Izzard's Dressed to Kill comedy. Brilliant he is.

Re:The link

[Evro]

Looks like it should have really been http://www.flickr.com/photos/jollyjake/278562314/ - their server is apparently better equipped to handle the load.

Re:The firefox team was gonna send a cake too...

[iced_773]

Not only that, it was Laocoon who said "Whatever it is, I fear Greeks bearing gifts."

Re:I was hoping Firefox 2.0 would bring change.

[dkasak]

I really don't get it. I've *never* had problems with Firefox memory usage (I started using it a few versions prior to 1.0; I can't remember which), be it on Linux or Windows. I'm currently using the final release of Firefox 2.0 with 15 extensions installed (including one listed as a problematic extension - IETab, for sites which impose restrictions on browsers) and a couple of Java applets opened in separate tabs. The process has been running for 4 days now, during which I had opened over a 100 tabs, with about 20 tabs being the simultaneous maximum. The current memory usage of Firefox is 82,072 KB, with the peak memory usage being 91,042 KB.

This is a serious matter that needs discussing in order to isolate the reasons for the enormous memory usage some people seem to generate. As it's extremely unlikely that everyone is lying about this (and I'm not either), there's obviously a quite concrete reason why this happens. I find it very surprising that no one has been able to clearly outline it. It would be really great if we could figure out what exactly is going on so it can be fixed once and for all.

Re:Leaky extensions

[bunratty]

Adblock .5

Adblock is one of the most infamous of all the memory hogging extensions. Update to Adblock 0.5.3.042 or later, or use version 0.7.0.2 or later of Adblock Plus.