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Mozilla Firefox 3.6 Released
Shining Celebi writes "Mozilla has released Firefox 3.6 today, which adds support for Personas, lightweight themes that can be installed without restarting the browser, and adds further performance improvements to the new Tracemonkey Javascript engine. One of the major goals of the release was to improve startup time and general UI responsiveness, especially the Awesomebar. You can read the full set of release notes here."
You're still going to be called a n00b, n00b. We just won't know who you are.
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Peni.s envy much ? loser.
well I havent posted on slashdot since about 1999, my first account from 1996 is long gone. I just spent the last 10 year lurking.
Late at night, when you're all alone, you want to kill yourself, don't you? Just do it.
Late at night, when you're all alone, you want to kill yourself, don't you? Just do it.
What's with all the AC posts lately that encourage people to do this? What a shitty trend. I don't care who the person is, you don't want that on your conscience. It's just plain fucked up that you'd even joke about that.
http://www.fuckinggoogleit.com/ is superior because it is more funny and, much more importantly, does not require javascript.
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When did "excitement" become a proper noun?
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Suicide isn't so bad, give it a chance.
"Firefox 3.6 does beat the newest Chrome on some Javascript benchmarks (and Chrome beats Firefox on others)." - by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 21, @03:06PM (#30850216)
LOL: WoW... when you come right down to it though, my man? That's hilarious... it really is!
(Especially in today's "over-plagued by javascript-based attacks" of the internet today!)
After all - Most attack that hit you USE javascript in malscripted webpages &/or malscripted adbanners, period (or via email attacks & malscripted .pdf files).
Facts ARE FACTS.
NOW, as far as "SPEED & SECURITY" online, & Opera vs. FireFox vs. IE?? Ok:
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A.) For SPEED (& even in javascript for the LONGEST time, until FF's new engines took its place (until Opera 10.50 @ least, because that's gotten a decent "boost" in that area -> http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/12/22/1911216 (not that it matters though, speeding up javascript is like asking to get infected by malscripted sites &/or adbanners faster imo @ least - that of a "POV" of PC security, mostly)):
http://www.howtocreate.co.uk/browserSpeed.html
and
http://crave.cnet.co.uk/cnetuk/crave/software/0,39029471,49302491,00.htm
AND
http://nontroppo.org/timer/kestrel_tests/
(Opera "rocked the planet" in those cases... bigtime (& ESPECIALLY ON THE MOST USED PLATFORM THERE IS, BAR-NONE, FOR PC-COMPUTING: Windows!))
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AND, for SECURITY also (less vulnerabilities present over time than IE or FF, per SECUNIA.COM stats):
INTERNET EXPLORER 8.x VULNERABILITIES STATS:(01/21/2010)
http://secunia.com/advisories/product/21625/?task=advisories
(UNPATCHED = 4-8 / 50% (though 1 of them, the "Critical 'Out-of-Band' Cumulative Update IS patched, as of about 1 hr. ago (go get it those of you that use MS OS' that is...)))
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FIREFOX 3.x VULNERABILITIES STATS:(01/21/2010)
http://secunia.com/advisories/product/25800/?task=statistics
(UNPATCHED = 0-6 / 0% (on this note, as you can see? FF had MORE advisories, over time as I noted, but... they've done a GREAT JOB in stopping that much (now, the same has to be said for their browser addons too, but that too, improves over time as well usually))
Most Critical Unpatched
There are no unpatched Secunia advisories affecting this product, when all vendor patches are applied..
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OPERA 10.x VULNERABILITIES STATS:(01/21/2010)
http://secunia.com/advisories/product/26745/?task=statistics
(UNPATCHED = 0-3 / 0% )
Most Critical Unpatched
There are no unpatched Secunia advisories affecting this product, when all vendor patches are applied..
====
Opera ROCKS, period (or, do the stats above make me a liar? I think not...)!
Plus, Opera's been able to pass the "ACID TESTS" (ACID2 specfically) for compliance to web-based standards since version 6.x iirc, & it was (iirc) actually the FIRST BROWSER (not development kit) to do so, but when counting dev kits, it was 2nd... correct me if I am "off" here on this last point though, guys, & thanks.
APK
P.S.=> Opera has a BIG "share-of-market" on MOBILE DEVICES as well, & is big in EUROPE (though stats don't tend to show it, because like many others, I tend to "IDENTIFY AS IE" in Opera, so I get somewhat better "IE based" page renderings on SOME sites (this happens, too bad) & that's something others s
"Ha, and you got tricked by a Opera or Chrome fanboy into replying. You know that's not going to make them change." - by zullnero (833754) on Thursday January 21, @04:01PM (#30851208) Homepage
Ok, then here are some FACTS for your to "mull over" then... ok?
NOW, as far as "SPEED & SECURITY" online, & Opera vs. FireFox vs. IE?? Ok:
====
A.) For SPEED (& even in javascript for the LONGEST time, until FF's new engines took its place (until Opera 10.50 @ least, because that's gotten a decent "boost" in that area -> http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/12/22/1911216 (not that it matters though, speeding up javascript is like asking to get infected by malscripted sites &/or adbanners faster imo @ least - that of a "POV" of PC security, mostly)):
http://www.howtocreate.co.uk/browserSpeed.html
and
http://crave.cnet.co.uk/cnetuk/crave/software/0,39029471,49302491,00.htm
AND
http://nontroppo.org/timer/kestrel_tests/
(Opera "rocked the planet" in those cases... bigtime (& ESPECIALLY ON THE MOST USED PLATFORM THERE IS, BAR-NONE, FOR PC-COMPUTING: Windows!))
----
AND, for SECURITY also (less vulnerabilities present over time than IE or FF, per SECUNIA.COM stats):
INTERNET EXPLORER 8.x VULNERABILITIES STATS:(01/21/2010)
http://secunia.com/advisories/product/21625/?task=advisories
(UNPATCHED = 4-8 / 50% (though 1 of them, the "Critical 'Out-of-Band' Cumulative Update IS patched, as of about 1 hr. ago (go get it those of you that use MS OS' that is...)))
---
FIREFOX 3.x VULNERABILITIES STATS:(01/21/2010)
http://secunia.com/advisories/product/25800/?task=statistics
(UNPATCHED = 0-6 / 0% (on this note, as you can see? FF had MORE advisories, over time as I noted, but... they've done a GREAT JOB in stopping that much (now, the same has to be said for their browser addons too, but that too, improves over time as well usually))
Most Critical Unpatched
There are no unpatched Secunia advisories affecting this product, when all vendor patches are applied..
----
OPERA 10.x VULNERABILITIES STATS:(01/21/2010)
http://secunia.com/advisories/product/26745/?task=statistics
(UNPATCHED = 0-3 / 0% )
Most Critical Unpatched
There are no unpatched Secunia advisories affecting this product, when all vendor patches are applied..
====
Opera ROCKS, period (or, do the stats above make me a liar? I think not...)!
Plus, Opera's been able to pass the "ACID TESTS" (ACID2 specfically) for compliance to web-based standards since version 6.x iirc, & it was (iirc) actually the FIRST BROWSER (not development kit) to do so, but when counting dev kits, it was 2nd... correct me if I am "off" here on this last point though, guys, & thanks.
APK
P.S.=> Opera has a BIG "share-of-market" on MOBILE DEVICES as well, & is big in EUROPE (though stats don't tend to show it, because like many others, I tend to "IDENTIFY AS IE" in Opera, so I get somewhat better "IE based" page renderings on SOME sites (this happens, too bad) & that's something others seem to overlook QUITE A BIT too)...
Once more, imo @ least? Well - Opera's great!
I.E.-> It took me away from being a FireFox user primarily in fact, because of it (& FF + IE have copied Opera's features RAMPANTLY over time (e.g.-> Tabbed Browsing anyone? As far as ADDONS also?? Heh, a LOT of what FF
You realize that Chevy has won more over all championships in every kind of racing than any other make, right?
Because if you don't you are just ignorant.
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http://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1512306&cid=30785704
Utterly hilarious - See BitzTream run in the URL above (after he being caught skimming like the typical troll does).
http://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1512306&cid=30785704
Utterly hilarious: See BitzTream run in the URL above (after he being caught skimming like the typical troll does).
http://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1512306&cid=30785704
Utterly hilarious - See BitzTream run in the URL above (after he being caught skimming like the typical troll does).
http://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1512306&cid=30785704
Utterly hilarious - See BitzTream run in the URL above (after he being caught skimming like the typical troll does).