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Firefox 3 Performance Gets a Boost
jason writes "Mozilla has been working hard at making Firefox 3 faster than its predecessor, and it looks like they might be succeeding. They've recently added some significant JavaScript performance improvements that beat out all of the competition, including Opera 9.5 Beta. And it comes out to be about ten times faster than Internet Explorer 7! Things are really starting to fall into place for Firefox 3 Beta 4 which should be available in the next week or two."
Are they going to address the memory leak in Firefox 2.0? If you don't know what I'm talking about, open Firefox and then leave it open for a few days...then come back and check the memory consumption in the Task Manager. One browser window shouldn't take up 161MB of your RAM.
Yeah, my karma sucks....but so do the mods.
Obvious as hell, has been from day one, FF is a windows microsoft product, fullstop. Any other ports are after thoughts and inconsequential (and I'll say it looks to be purposeful obfuscation..can't prove it, but all the clues are there) to the main effort. The originator of FF, Blake Ross, is a diehard microsoft windows user. FF (and the legions of "work for free for microsoft" devs gave MS years of slack to keep people on windows when IE proved to be a severe security hassle, whereas if an open source browser was only developed for open source operating systems, people nailed daily by the IE security bug du juor would have been forced to look at alternate operating systems.
People clearly saw the SCO stalking horse, why they fail to see this one is beyond me. I guess it is like when they failed to see MS was the dodge "large cobalt mechanisms" used to keep from getting investigated for monopoly market abuse way back in the day.
"Piracy is ethically no different from a mob looting a store whose locks were broken."
Whether you refer to real piracy or copyright violation, you are pretty much wrong.
Yeah, I agree, pathetic sig.
Its morally no different from a mob with a fancy star-trek replicator going into the shop, duplicating whatever they wanted, then leaving orderly with the shop in a state 100% identical to what it was before they came.
Not if you're the shop owner, and people don't buy stuff anymore because everyone's got a replicator.
Just sayin'
Actually, "piracy" (by which I understand you to mean "copyright violations" and not "theft and murder on the high seas"), to fit into your analogy, is really more like "a mob entering a bookstore (without breaking), photocopying all the books (using their own photocopier and electricity), and then replacing them on their original shelves, in their original conditions, and locking up when they leave."
They're not depriving anyone of any property. Their act does no harm; it merely enriches their own lives.
The only perception of harm comes from the thermodynamically-challenged laws we have on our books. (In other words, the laws attempt to reverse entropy; tag goodluckwiththat.)
Your AC responder also had a good comment. I've seen you before, but this is the first time I've seen the new sig. Can't say I approve; your ethics don't seem to tell the difference between "depriving of income" and "depriving of property". There's a big difference; one is a potential future event, the other has immediate effects.
I feel fantastic, and I'm still alive.
The act of photocopying books in a book store (piracy) does do harm. It is depriving both the holder of the IP revenue for consumption of their good as well as depriving the bookstore revenue for the provision of the hard copies that were obviously used. Just because the mob leaves the books on the shelves after photocopying them doesn't mean that they aren't stealing property and services.