Well at least you know it doesn't have anything particularly horrible in it. I mean sure, big food distributors' stuff isn't the best for you, but it's probably not going to kill you due to pesticides or something.
Chrome's success is not linked to its version number. It's more that it's constantly and painlessly updated with little to no breakage. The speed is also a major assistance. I would swap if not for noscript, adblock, and the fact that they're taking my url bar.
It's really just version number nonsense. And more importantly, I believe any plugin written for any version of 3.6 will work with any other version of 3.6. 4 and 5? Nope.
Hm, interesting, haven't had driver problems at all in the last 3 years I've used linux (after a huge batch of wireless cards got decent drivers). Not any bugs really too- but my experience can't speak for everyone's of course, and I do tend to purchase good hardware for compatibility. Anyway, it used to be a win2k machine which was quite clean of bloat and malware, and firefox 3.5 or 6 performed admirably- not as fast as firefox 4 at page loading, but no memory leaks or anything, certainly not much slower than 3.6 on my then current pentium 4 running linux. Oldest XP machine I've ever run firefox on was a pentium 4 1GB so I can't speak for legacy stuff post 2k. Posting this from a friend's windows 7 laptop and it runs fine here too.
Sorry, going to have to call bull on this one. I've got a P3 650MHz with 384MB of RAM that I use for linux (ultra)legacy testing and firefox 3.6 ran fast enough. FIrefox 4 was excellent, faster than chrome in fact, on that same machine. It's every bit as responsive as it is on my usual 2.8GHz dual core 2GB ram system.
Look, if you're going to grammar nazi troll at least do it right- don't go after typos, go after actually stupid stuff like confusion between two, too, and to or your and you're.
The original www browser was public domain. I still maintain though, firefox was the major browser that brought us out of the IE6 dark ages. Decent timeline, but I'd consider the warring states thing to mostly have ended by '06 or '07.
KHTML, rendering engine behind konqueror, chosen by apple for its quality and lightness? Sure, very few people use konqueror, but plenty of people use at least a hundred thousand lines of code from konqueror every day. That's not counting gecko though, also open source.
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11.10 will be based on Gnome shell if I recall correctly. But yeah, install xfce if you want a traditional style desktop.
Well at least you know it doesn't have anything particularly horrible in it. I mean sure, big food distributors' stuff isn't the best for you, but it's probably not going to kill you due to pesticides or something.
It's called a simile.
Huh, I make this mistake quite often as well.
Chrome's success is not linked to its version number. It's more that it's constantly and painlessly updated with little to no breakage. The speed is also a major assistance. I would swap if not for noscript, adblock, and the fact that they're taking my url bar.
It's really just version number nonsense. And more importantly, I believe any plugin written for any version of 3.6 will work with any other version of 3.6. 4 and 5? Nope.
You can just use pre-compiled binaries from firefox's website. Of course, as a gentoo user...
I run debian on an old pentium 3 with a rage 128 and gnome is damn near unusable. Windows 7 would be torment.
Woosh!
(Looks at watch)
Forget nearly unusable, I doubt anything that old has drivers for anything newer than 2000, maybe xp. 64-bit? Forget it.
As long as it also had +1 tired old meme.
Strange, I'm on arch 64 bit with much inferior hardware (pentium D, 2GB RAM). Only addons I run are noscript and adblock plus though.
Hm, interesting, haven't had driver problems at all in the last 3 years I've used linux (after a huge batch of wireless cards got decent drivers). Not any bugs really too- but my experience can't speak for everyone's of course, and I do tend to purchase good hardware for compatibility. Anyway, it used to be a win2k machine which was quite clean of bloat and malware, and firefox 3.5 or 6 performed admirably- not as fast as firefox 4 at page loading, but no memory leaks or anything, certainly not much slower than 3.6 on my then current pentium 4 running linux. Oldest XP machine I've ever run firefox on was a pentium 4 1GB so I can't speak for legacy stuff post 2k. Posting this from a friend's windows 7 laptop and it runs fine here too.
Not GNU emacs, but still, early eighties, that's less than a version number a year.
Volkerding, is that you? Wait a second...
Sorry, going to have to call bull on this one. I've got a P3 650MHz with 384MB of RAM that I use for linux (ultra)legacy testing and firefox 3.6 ran fast enough. FIrefox 4 was excellent, faster than chrome in fact, on that same machine. It's every bit as responsive as it is on my usual 2.8GHz dual core 2GB ram system.
Jake Sully had a spinal injury, nothing was physically wrong with his legs, he was just paraplegic.
I'm thinking somebody else took up writing stuff for them after Pamela Jones quit.
Look, if you're going to grammar nazi troll at least do it right- don't go after typos, go after actually stupid stuff like confusion between two, too, and to or your and you're.
Well, fallout had 2 of the 3 things, anyway.
The original www browser was public domain. I still maintain though, firefox was the major browser that brought us out of the IE6 dark ages. Decent timeline, but I'd consider the warring states thing to mostly have ended by '06 or '07.
It's called a joke. The world might be crumbling, but why can't we laugh about it?
KHTML, rendering engine behind konqueror, chosen by apple for its quality and lightness? Sure, very few people use konqueror, but plenty of people use at least a hundred thousand lines of code from konqueror every day. That's not counting gecko though, also open source.
None that I know of are operational yet- don't even know of any that are bootable at all.
Well there you go then! I just think the FOSS communities have built a lot more than you give them credit for.