That's what i did with the XP version that came with my Thinkpad. But i didn't have to do anything over the phone - it just worked. And i duplicated the VM a couple of times, so now i've got 3 working XP virtual machines which i use regularly.
If Opera had the plug-in capability of Firefox, I'd move back to it.
Yeah, i've been seriously contemplating going back to Opera myself. But i rely too much on the web developer toolbar and a few other things.
Maybe i'll switch to opera for non-development browsing and use FF just for development. I'd have to have two browsers open all the time then, though, which would be a bit of a pain - as my window list gets almost as out of control as my tabs bar some of the time...
I never let it get that out of control. I've got about 40 tabs open at the moment and it's not me that's lost, it's some of the tabs! If someone could solve the problem of runaway tabs, bookmarks and email inboxes i'd be very happy!
And why should any of that be necessary? Why not just be able to access it from the menu bar?
It would be a nightmare navigating your way around the settings menu if everything that's configurable was in there. Most people never need to configure any of that stuff, so why confuse and bemuse them by including it in the menu bar dialogs?
It would be the equivalent of having all windows registry options configurable from the control panel.
>Are we really talking about how fast the DHTML engine responds or is Javascript really that stinky slow that changing the element underlying take a while.
Mostly it's the time taken by the browser to reflow and repaint that slows things down - not the javascript itself. Minimizing reflows and repaints is a big part of optimization.
I guess that's true for some values of "many". But when the things that are better cover such a high proportion of the things that are genuinely important in life, it looks like "many" to me.
Maybe, maybe not. But the chances of getting bitten are very very slim indeed. The chances of dying from cancer caused by spraying insecticide around your house are likely to be considerably higher than the chances of dying from a spider bite.
Just another of the Murdoch gutter rag's lies. Murdoch's British papers are the lowest of the low when it comes to gutter rags, too. So low, in fact, that "sewer rags" would be a more appropriate term.
Yeah, totally. I've only ever looked at the online version of the Australian once or twice, but i read the SMH online pretty much every day. I've spent most of the last 2.5 years overseas and i'm subscribed to the SMH's twice daily email news bulletins and their daily tech news bulletin.
That may or may not be true. But the Basques are not Gaelic.
Studies of Y-chromosome genes (in this case, the R1b group) seem to show that something like 75% of British people have ancestors who came from Basque country.
Antibiotics in milk and growth hormones in meat may have had something to do with it, too.
And of course, British people have grown phenomenally since the channel tunnel was built - maybe something to do with not really being an island any more?!
Slashdot Mirror
You've got to be kidding! Have you ever looked at the internet?
No, but i'll check it out. Thanks!
That's what i did with the XP version that came with my Thinkpad. But i didn't have to do anything over the phone - it just worked. And i duplicated the VM a couple of times, so now i've got 3 working XP virtual machines which i use regularly.
You'd better prepare for a chronic illness then, cos it's here to stay!
Javascript's great, anyway. What's your problem with it?
Yeah, i've been seriously contemplating going back to Opera myself. But i rely too much on the web developer toolbar and a few other things.
Maybe i'll switch to opera for non-development browsing and use FF just for development. I'd have to have two browsers open all the time then, though, which would be a bit of a pain - as my window list gets almost as out of control as my tabs bar some of the time...
I never let it get that out of control. I've got about 40 tabs open at the moment and it's not me that's lost, it's some of the tabs! If someone could solve the problem of runaway tabs, bookmarks and email inboxes i'd be very happy!
Good thinking.
It's open source, get cracking!
I curse it every time it crashes - which seems to be much more often these days!
It would be a nightmare navigating your way around the settings menu if everything that's configurable was in there. Most people never need to configure any of that stuff, so why confuse and bemuse them by including it in the menu bar dialogs?
It would be the equivalent of having all windows registry options configurable from the control panel.
Mostly it's the time taken by the browser to reflow and repaint that slows things down - not the javascript itself. Minimizing reflows and repaints is a big part of optimization.
Like slashdot, you mean???
Maybe. But all i'm saying is there are more important things in life than money. And you don't have to be rich to be happy.
I guess that's true for some values of "many". But when the things that are better cover such a high proportion of the things that are genuinely important in life, it looks like "many" to me.
Yes there are! Being happy. Healthy. Fulfilled. Having an interesting life. Loving and being loved.
Being rich isn't a prerequisite for any of them - and it doesn't bring any of them on its own.
Any newspaper will do - they pretty much all go on about how British people are getting more obese every day.
Probably death from cancer caused by inhalation of or skin contact with pesticide.
It was early compared with the US or Britain.
Maybe, maybe not. But the chances of getting bitten are very very slim indeed. The chances of dying from cancer caused by spraying insecticide around your house are likely to be considerably higher than the chances of dying from a spider bite.
Just another of the Murdoch gutter rag's lies. Murdoch's British papers are the lowest of the low when it comes to gutter rags, too. So low, in fact, that "sewer rags" would be a more appropriate term.
Yeah, totally. I've only ever looked at the online version of the Australian once or twice, but i read the SMH online pretty much every day. I've spent most of the last 2.5 years overseas and i'm subscribed to the SMH's twice daily email news bulletins and their daily tech news bulletin.
That may or may not be true. But the Basques are not Gaelic.
Studies of Y-chromosome genes (in this case, the R1b group) seem to show that something like 75% of British people have ancestors who came from Basque country.
Antibiotics in milk and growth hormones in meat may have had something to do with it, too.
And of course, British people have grown phenomenally since the channel tunnel was built - maybe something to do with not really being an island any more?!
I believe it's closer to 15,000 years than 5,000.
And the British were quite short until relatively recently (of course everyone else in the world may have been too, for all i know).
Shitloads of foreign "aid" workers.
No, but i've been to Afghanistan.