I have suffered with adult onset depression for 30 years. Last year a friend from HS talked me in to switching to a ketogenic (75% fat, 20% protein, 5% carb) diet. I was extremely skeptical but within a week the depression was gone! I started digging and found all sorts of peer reviewed research tying depression, dementia, and loss of cognitive function to a high carb diet yet I had never heard about it from any medical or nutritional professional. Most doctors have barely a cursory training in nutrition and that training is that fat kills! And it is WRONG! I've spent the last 6 months telling anybody who will listen. I am in better physical shape now than I've ever been and feel wonderful. I hope this message starts getting heard more.
Waterfox will continue to fall behind as new Firefox releases come out. Eventually Waterfox will have to bite the bullet and rebase on whatever the latest Firefox is at that time.
What an ass. Your statement has been challenged so you resort to juvenile nana nana boo boo tactics. You know damn well Waterfox will release an update based on this release. Whether it will perform better or worse remains to be seen. But God forbid someone suggest you might be wrong.
Given that Waterfox 56.0.3 was released a few weeks ago and Firefox 58 was just released I'll wait for 56.0.4 or later to do an apples to useful browser comparison. I DID however do a WF 56.0.3 to FF 57.0.4 comparison and they are pretty much identical with WF just edging out FF. I'm not saying you're wrong but your test is certainly unfair to Alex and Waterfox.
Waterfox 56.0.3
WebAssembly.instantiate took 1192.2 ms (10.4 MB/s)
Firefox 57.0.4
WebAssembly.instantiate took 1197.8 ms (10.3 MB/s)
Features
Disabled Encrypted Media Extensions (EME)
Disabled Web Runtime (deprecated as of 2015)
Removed Pocket
Removed Telemetry
Removed data collection
Removed startup profiling
Allow running of all 64-Bit NPAPI plugins
Allow running of unsigned extensions
Removal of Sponsored Tiles on New Tab Page
Addition of Duplicate Tab option
Locale selector in about:preferences > General
"Quantum is already a part of Waterfox. It was just a collection of improvements in various aspects of the browser made at the same time, so Mozilla just decided to use the umbrella term Quantum so people would know that all these changes were happening. It has been going on for years, and Firefox 52+ were the finishing touches to it."
Perhaps you don't realize that the reason they are using IE is they have legacy systems running ActiveX/JAVA programs that only work with IE. Most web sites don't even test against IE any longer they just pop up a message saying "Download Chrome Now!". Which means these companies have to adopt a two browser strategy to support their needs.
While people everywhere are telling us why we CAN'T do something we are out there proving them wrong. Alex isn't working alone he is simply taking the best parts of Firefox and stripping out the junk. Most of the improvements Quantum made are already incorporated into Waterfox. It just didn't implement the nanny state of removing things that many users find indispensable. Do you know how many Fortune 500 companies have JAVA front ends for their multi-million dollar enterprises? A LOT! You know what most of these companies are using for a browser? IE11!!! That is SCARY. At least with Waterfox you've got a modern browser that still allows legacy sites to work correctly.
I'll stick with Waterfox. What made Firefox so great was the ability to bend it to my will. Webextensions takes away my abilities and replaces them with training wheels and a balloon. YAY! This update is just more hand waving "Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain" tactics.
Interesting. I've had a Winbook TW100 with just 2GB RAM and an Intel Baytrail-T Z3735D for several years and it has been a decent (not great) performer. The only real pain point was the Realtek WiFi/Bluetooth chip (RTL8723BS) which has a problem doing both simultaneously. I've not tried the Acer units.
If these are sold to consumers (It says education market but will they be sold retail?) they will be a big hit and an utter disaster as soon as the proud new owners start trying to install regular Windows software. And while Microsoft says you can upgrade S to Home I suspect they make it as hard as possible to do so. I can already pick up a 11.6" Insignia tablet with Windows 10 Home for $199 It's only got an Atom X5 processor but I doubt there is a significant performance delta from their power throttled Celeron brethren.
I tried Google's two factor for about six months. It was a PITA! The app would randomly stop working and when I was on another device It would make me jump through nigh infinite hoops to log me in. If the pain exceeds the user''s threshold they aren't going to use it unless they have to. I turned it off and have never tried it since. Most users have less patience than I do so 1 in 10 sounds about right.
This! I tried Waterfox back in 2011 when it was one of the only 64 bit browsers available and never looked back. There are a few 32 bit systems I still need and I wish there were a 32 bit build for them. All the modern features of FF 56 (a new version based on 57 is in the works but it will be a while) none of the tracking nor any of the nanny features Google and Mozilla are forcing on ALL users because some people can't be trusted to not click on that suspicious link.
And piss off your biggest donors? No, You want your constituents to believe you are working in their best interest without having to actually commit. Rattling a sabre at the FCC's new rules accomplishes this without getting any blood on their hands because they know the actual vote will fail. Then when the voters complain they just point out there just weren't enough votes.
You might give Waterfox a try. I've been using it instead of Firefox for years. It's currently at version 56 and is based on Firefox code but maintains full NPAPI support and strips out the tracking bits.
A university researcher has just proven in a groundbreaking research study that water is INDEED wet! With this announcement he has been granted five more years of funding from several prominent corporations wishing to be associated with such innovative discoveries.
I have a Nexus Player and a Fire tablet and have tried almost every browser available on the platform. Recently the developer for Waterfox started compiling to Android and since I use it on every other platform I can I gave it a try. Sure enough it was hands down the best experience on an Android based device I have had with a browser. And since it retains legacy plugin architecture most of your tried and true plugins should work. It is only compiled to 64 bit so you're out of luck if you're stuck on a 32 bit system.
They were. When the turbine craze took off in West Texas in 2006 and anybody who could afford to put up a turbine did nobody was asking how that power was going to get to where it needed to go. By 2008 there were more turbines than the transmission system could support. ERCOT commissioned the expansion on the transmission system but that would take at least five years. This led to the circumstances I alluded to in my OP.
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I have suffered with adult onset depression for 30 years. Last year a friend from HS talked me in to switching to a ketogenic (75% fat, 20% protein, 5% carb) diet. I was extremely skeptical but within a week the depression was gone! I started digging and found all sorts of peer reviewed research tying depression, dementia, and loss of cognitive function to a high carb diet yet I had never heard about it from any medical or nutritional professional. Most doctors have barely a cursory training in nutrition and that training is that fat kills! And it is WRONG! I've spent the last 6 months telling anybody who will listen. I am in better physical shape now than I've ever been and feel wonderful. I hope this message starts getting heard more.
Exaggerating (Lying) in journalism is protected by law.
Waterfox will continue to fall behind as new Firefox releases come out. Eventually Waterfox will have to bite the bullet and rebase on whatever the latest Firefox is at that time.
What an ass. Your statement has been challenged so you resort to juvenile nana nana boo boo tactics. You know damn well Waterfox will release an update based on this release. Whether it will perform better or worse remains to be seen. But God forbid someone suggest you might be wrong.
Given that Waterfox 56.0.3 was released a few weeks ago and Firefox 58 was just released I'll wait for 56.0.4 or later to do an apples to useful browser comparison. I DID however do a WF 56.0.3 to FF 57.0.4 comparison and they are pretty much identical with WF just edging out FF. I'm not saying you're wrong but your test is certainly unfair to Alex and Waterfox.
Waterfox 56.0.3
WebAssembly.instantiate took 1192.2 ms (10.4 MB/s)
Firefox 57.0.4
WebAssembly.instantiate took 1197.8 ms (10.3 MB/s)
For the most part yes. From the Waterfox site:
Features Disabled Encrypted Media Extensions (EME)
Disabled Web Runtime (deprecated as of 2015)
Removed Pocket
Removed Telemetry
Removed data collection
Removed startup profiling
Allow running of all 64-Bit NPAPI plugins
Allow running of unsigned extensions
Removal of Sponsored Tiles on New Tab Page
Addition of Duplicate Tab option
Locale selector in about:preferences > General
And from the developer Alex Kontos:
"Quantum is already a part of Waterfox. It was just a collection of improvements in various aspects of the browser made at the same time, so Mozilla just decided to use the umbrella term Quantum so people would know that all these changes were happening. It has been going on for years, and Firefox 52+ were the finishing touches to it."
Perhaps you don't realize that the reason they are using IE is they have legacy systems running ActiveX/JAVA programs that only work with IE. Most web sites don't even test against IE any longer they just pop up a message saying "Download Chrome Now!". Which means these companies have to adopt a two browser strategy to support their needs.
While people everywhere are telling us why we CAN'T do something we are out there proving them wrong. Alex isn't working alone he is simply taking the best parts of Firefox and stripping out the junk. Most of the improvements Quantum made are already incorporated into Waterfox. It just didn't implement the nanny state of removing things that many users find indispensable. Do you know how many Fortune 500 companies have JAVA front ends for their multi-million dollar enterprises? A LOT! You know what most of these companies are using for a browser? IE11!!! That is SCARY. At least with Waterfox you've got a modern browser that still allows legacy sites to work correctly.
I'll stick with Waterfox. What made Firefox so great was the ability to bend it to my will. Webextensions takes away my abilities and replaces them with training wheels and a balloon. YAY! This update is just more hand waving "Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain" tactics.
Interesting. I've had a Winbook TW100 with just 2GB RAM and an Intel Baytrail-T Z3735D for several years and it has been a decent (not great) performer. The only real pain point was the Realtek WiFi/Bluetooth chip (RTL8723BS) which has a problem doing both simultaneously. I've not tried the Acer units.
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If these are sold to consumers (It says education market but will they be sold retail?) they will be a big hit and an utter disaster as soon as the proud new owners start trying to install regular Windows software. And while Microsoft says you can upgrade S to Home I suspect they make it as hard as possible to do so. I can already pick up a 11.6" Insignia tablet with Windows 10 Home for $199 It's only got an Atom X5 processor but I doubt there is a significant performance delta from their power throttled Celeron brethren.
So you're saying that now my Android phone will run Windows x86 software that a Windows phone can't? Got it!
I tried Google's two factor for about six months. It was a PITA! The app would randomly stop working and when I was on another device It would make me jump through nigh infinite hoops to log me in. If the pain exceeds the user''s threshold they aren't going to use it unless they have to. I turned it off and have never tried it since. Most users have less patience than I do so 1 in 10 sounds about right.
This! I tried Waterfox back in 2011 when it was one of the only 64 bit browsers available and never looked back. There are a few 32 bit systems I still need and I wish there were a 32 bit build for them. All the modern features of FF 56 (a new version based on 57 is in the works but it will be a while) none of the tracking nor any of the nanny features Google and Mozilla are forcing on ALL users because some people can't be trusted to not click on that suspicious link.
Upgraded my kernel yesterday without issue. Got a notice this morning 4.4.0-109.132 was available.
NOPE. They aren't making a law. They are voting to prevent new FCC rules from going into effect. The FCC can turn right around and resubmit the rules.
No...word on the street is he had started an investigation into the Pastafarian's. You do NOT mess with His Noodly Appendage.
And piss off your biggest donors? No, You want your constituents to believe you are working in their best interest without having to actually commit. Rattling a sabre at the FCC's new rules accomplishes this without getting any blood on their hands because they know the actual vote will fail. Then when the voters complain they just point out there just weren't enough votes.
But they still can't pump their own gas!
You might give Waterfox a try. I've been using it instead of Firefox for years. It's currently at version 56 and is based on Firefox code but maintains full NPAPI support and strips out the tracking bits.
But have you tried the new Prime Video for Android TV? OH wait, not compatible with ANY of your devices...damn.
A university researcher has just proven in a groundbreaking research study that water is INDEED wet! With this announcement he has been granted five more years of funding from several prominent corporations wishing to be associated with such innovative discoveries.
I have a Nexus Player and a Fire tablet and have tried almost every browser available on the platform. Recently the developer for Waterfox started compiling to Android and since I use it on every other platform I can I gave it a try. Sure enough it was hands down the best experience on an Android based device I have had with a browser. And since it retains legacy plugin architecture most of your tried and true plugins should work. It is only compiled to 64 bit so you're out of luck if you're stuck on a 32 bit system.
If Mars had a Racnoss ship as its core like Earth does it might have been better at sustaining life.
They were. When the turbine craze took off in West Texas in 2006 and anybody who could afford to put up a turbine did nobody was asking how that power was going to get to where it needed to go. By 2008 there were more turbines than the transmission system could support. ERCOT commissioned the expansion on the transmission system but that would take at least five years. This led to the circumstances I alluded to in my OP.