Firefox is a world-class asset. Firefox is extremely important partly because those who need to do a lot of research online depend on Firefox and Firefox add-ons such as Session Manager, Session Manager Export Tool, Mozilla Archive Format, Flashblock, Multi Links, and Tab Mix Plus. There is no substitute for the capabilities of Firefox together with Firefox Add-ons. (Add-ons are also known as extensions and plug-ins.) For those who do research, Firefox is simply the best browser. Firefox is literally a world-class asset.
Biggest flaw: Firefox is unstable. The first step in good management would be to fix the instability of Firefox. There would be a huge additional advantage in doing that, as someone else mentioned. Investigating how Firefox can be so unstable under Microsoft Windows might reveal flaws in Microsoft Windows that make the OS so unstable when using Firefox.
Firefox instabilities are experienced most frequently by those who open many Firefox windows and tabs and leave them open while putting the computer into standby or hibernation several times. That is the pattern of use of those who do a lot of online research.
An example of research: For example, in researching HDMI cables there are numerous manufacturers, distributors, online sellers, explanations of HDMI standards, explanations of the U.S. National Electrical Code, and online reviews. The research is made far more complicated by the many companies that try to take advantage of the ignorance of the average person about cables. Good research is important because HDMI cables are often embedded in the infrastructure of buildings. Poor cables may need to be replaced when video equipment is upgraded, sometimes requiring the tearing apart of walls. Equipment upgrades may be years away, but are almost certain to happen.
One condition of instability: Windows XP 32-bit with Service Pack 3, for example, becomes unstable when Firefox has taken all the available memory, and is beginning to require the OS to use virtual memory. It seems a reasonable guess that Microsoft will be slow to fix Windows instabilities since poor experiences encourage people to buy new versions. Microsoft requires payment of the full price for each new version of Windows. Microsoft does not allow upgrade pricing even when a previous version has had many flaws, as with Microsoft Windows Vista. The laws against unfair business practices of those who have virtual monopolies have had no effect on Microsoft, apparently.
Firefox crash info: Here are some links for those who want to discover more about the instabilities in Firefox.
about:crashes Put about:crashes into your URL bar and press ENTER. Firefox will then show a list of crashes of the copy of Firefox on that computer.
1) The lists of crashes are ONLY the ones that Firefox caught. The lists do NOT include crashes that don't start the crash reporter.
2) Version 7.0.1 often stays in memory even though the GUI was closed.
3) The crashes are often preceded by rapidly increasing memory use. Firefox corrupts Microsoft Windows, so that Windows needs to be re-started. When Firefox corrupts Microsoft Windows, it often damages operations in Windows that are not connected with browsing.
4) Crashes are most frequent for those who do a lot of online research, and open many Firefox windows and tabs, and leave them open while putting the computer into standby or hibernation.
5) The crashes and memory gobbling have been reported for more than 9 years. Not much has improved, even though the change reports for every version say there have been "stability improvements".
Quote from the article: "Until Intel's next-gen, high-end Sandy Bridge-E processor is released sometime this quarter, Intel's second generation Core family of processors and the Z68 Express chipset are Intel's current premiere desktop platform for the mainstream."
I like the article, but who would buy old hardware? Supposedly Intel will release the next generation of chipsets next month. For example, the new chipsets will have all fast SATA and USB ports, instead of only 2 or 4.
Quote: "The couple have three children. Jobs also has a daughter, Lisa Brennan-Jobs (born 1978), from his relationship with Bay Area painter Chrisann Brennan.[43] She briefly raised their daughter on welfare when Jobs denied paternity, claiming that he was sterile; he later acknowledged paternity.[43]"
Wikipedia's reference 43 is page 2 of Fortune Magazine's March 5, 2008 article, The trouble with Steve Jobs.
Quote: "When Jobs had his own illegitimate child, also at the age of 23, he too struggled with his responsibilities. For two years, though already wealthy, he denied paternity while Lisa's mother went on welfare. At one point Jobs even swore in a signed court document that he couldn't be Lisa's father because he was "sterile and infertile, and as a result thereof, did not have the physical capacity to procreate a child." He later acknowledged paternity of Lisa, married Laurene Powell, a Stanford MBA, and fathered three more children. Lisa Brennan-Jobs, now 29, graduated from Harvard and is a writer."
From page 1 of that article: 'Pondering this issue, Stanford management science professor Robert Sutton discussed Jobs in his bestselling 2007 book, "The No Asshole Rule: Building a Civilized Workplace and Surviving One That Isn't." "As soon as people heard I was writing a book on assholes, they would come up to me and start telling a Steve Jobs story," says Sutton. "The degree to which people in Silicon Valley are afraid of Jobs is unbelievable. He made people feel terrible; he made people cry'
Another quote from page 1: "... his deployment of stock options at Apple and Pixar, which exposed both companies to backdating scandals."
From page 2: 'Jobs' break-the-rules attitude extends to refusing to put a license plate on his Mercedes. "It's a little game I play," he explained to Fortune in 2001.'
'One former board member described Anderson's role as "tantrum controller." '
'The company discovered "irregularities" with 6,428 grants between 1997 and 2001 - roughly one in six that Apple issued during that period. (New disclosure requirements after that time caused backdating to dry up.) The company also found no instances of backdating before Jobs took over as CEO. Apple was forced to restate its earnings, taking a pretax charge for unreported compensation expenses of $105 million.'
"Disney, which bought Pixar in 2006, also investigated and found a backdating problem there during Jobs' time as CEO."
Page 3: "Anderson, in an extraordinary public statement he issued after settling his case with the SEC, disputed Apple's exoneration of Jobs. Through his lawyer, he said he alerted Jobs to the accounting implications even as the CEO was in the process of picking a retroactive date for the grant to his top lieutenants. He also said Jobs assured him that the award had been properly approved by Apple's board."
Page 4: "It was a great speech, simple and moving - though it clearly left the false impression that Jobs had learned of his illness in mid-2004 and immediately proceeded to surgery, when in fact he had learned of it in October 2003."
I've studied the issues for many years, and have formed the theory that Job's abusiveness is possibly the cause of his illness.
The GSM system uses different 4 bands. A phone that can use any of them is the most flexible.
When you get where you're going, go to a marketplace and buy a SIM card. That gives you a local number. If you meet someone you want to communicate with later, you will have a local number to give him or her. If you plan to communicate with the person after you leave, don't forget to exchange email addresses, because you will use a different SIM card in a different city, usually, and have a different number.
"... they've made so many bonehead moves over the last decade..." Agreed.
The HP board of directors has shown itself, over many years, to be utterly incompetent. This is one more example.
When a CEO is incompetent, the board of directors gets a new CEO. When a board of directors is incompetent, how can the problem be fixed? Does the problem go on and on, until the company goes bankrupt?
It's not just on Linux, I'm noticing weird behavior on Windows, too. Is it possible you don't use Firefox as much at work?
I don't like the rapid new versions; they break add-ons. Add-ons are the reason I use Firefox.
Version 6.02 of Firefox is very unstable, far more unstable than version 3.6.20. Firefox 6.02 crashes often when there are 100 tabs open, a situation that is common when doing research. Firefox 6.02 often crashes with no crash report.
Questions:
1) Why did the Mozilla team decide to play games with version numbers?
2) Google has been paying Mozilla Foundation more than $80 million each year. Can anyone say they have seen 80 million dollars of yearly development? Where does the money go?
Quote: "Almost the entirety of Mozilla's income -- 97% of $104 million -- arrives in the form of royalties from the Firefox search box, and the lion's share (86%, $85 million) of those royalties are paid by the default search engine: Google.
"In November 2011, however, Mozilla's contract with Google will expire. It will then be renewed... or it will be allowed to lapse." [My emphasis]
4) Why is Firefox version 6.02 extremely unstable with many tabs and windows open? What happened? Firefox 3.6.20 was far more stable. What was done that caused the instability?
5) Why don't the Firefox programmers fix the memory and CPU hogging? It has been there for at least 8 years.
Yes, you should be worried, it seems to me. Your Apple product is on the edge of its thermal design limit, apparently. They cannot be used in Leadville, Colorado, to use an example mentioned below.
He spoke very publicly, and he appeared to be disclosing plans known inside HP. The implication of what he said is, "Don't buy anything from HP", and the stock market read it that way.
In my opinion, HP's steady downward slide began before CEO Lew Platt. It continued with the amazingly inept Carly Fiorina.
In our business we've had problems with HP laptops and printers, due to what appeared to us to be sloppy practices. We have a laptop owned by a friend that failed because of the bad nVidia video chip; it was arranged that few people got compensated. HP has sometimes made drivers for old HP hardware not available.
List of HP CEOs (Taken from Wikipedia): Patricia C. Dunn, Robert Wayman, Michael Capellas, Lewis E. Platt, John A. Young, Carly Fiorina, Mark Hurd, Rahul Sood, Leo Apotheker. See the article, How HP CEO Leo Apotheker Is Running HP Into the Ground, in foolish slide-show format.
Apparently Mr. Apotheker is abandoning the PC hardware business because he is uncomfortable with it. He was previously CEO of SAP, a software compnay.
We've been discussing the Firefox memory-hogging and CPU-hogging bug on Slashdot for about 10 years. Always someone joins the discussion who doesn't understand the issues, and doesn't try to understand the issues.
"Your trying to browse 3000 web sites at once and you expect your browser NOT to crash?"
As MurukeshM said, that is 30 windows with 100 tabs total. Many of those tabs are on the same web site. For example, try to compare Fujitsu scanners with scanners from other companies. Check the support options, the cost of accessories and supplies. Check the user reviews on Amazon.
Can anyone recommend a fast large-format flatbed scanner? *grin* We've already did the sheet-fed research and got a good sheet-feed scanner.
Mozilla Foundation has always been badly managed. In the beginning it was managed by Winifred Mitchell Baker, a socially backward lawyer with no technical experience.
Add-ons are the reason people use Firefox. Decisions are made that break Firefox Add-ons, without notice.
Firefox is extremely important because it is the only browser that has such an extensive list of add-ons. (Unfortunately, Add-ons are also called "extensions" and "plug-ins".) For some uses, the add-ons are so convenient that they can be considered necessary.
Firefox instability corrupts the Windows operating system. There is huge instability seen only by people who open many windows and tabs, and leave them open for a long time. (It is not necessary to say you don't experience this bug if you don't commonly have 30 or more windows with 100 or more tabs open for several hours. Those of us who must do research have needs different than the average user.) That particular Firefox instability has been there since version 1, perhaps 10 years ago. An example: Two days ago I had a crash in Firefox version 6.0 that did not generate a Talkback report.
Mozilla Foundation Top 20 Excuses for Not Fixing Firefox Bugs (Last updated in 2009.)
Here are the top 20 things Firefox and Mozilla developers say to those
who report difficult bugs, collected over the last 8 years. See also the
extensive information provided in this Slashdot comment, Firefox is
the most unstable program in common use, and the links in the comment.
Maybe this bug is fixed in the nightly build. [The same bug has been
reported many, many times over a period of four years.]
Yes, this bug exists, but other things are more important. [The bug
eventually takes 100% of CPU power, and makes Windows XP unusable, even after
Firefox is killed. The bug affects the heaviest users of Firefox.]
Yes, this bug exists, but it is not a common occurrence. [Numerous users
have reported the bug. See the links.]
Works for me. [The bug is complicated to reproduce, so the developers did
a simplified test, which didn't show the bug.]
No one has posted a TalkBack report. [If they had read the bug report,
they would know that there is never a TalkBack report, because the bug crashes
TalkBack, too, or a TalkBack report is not generated. TalkBack does not generate
a report if Firefox is hogging the CPU. TalkBack cannot generate
a report if the bug takes 100% of the CPU time.]
If you would just give us more information, we would fix this bug. [They
didn't bother to reproduce the bug using the detailed information
provided.]
This bug report is a composite of other bugs, so this bug report is
invalid. [The other bugs aren't specified.]
You are using Firefox in a way that would crash any software. [But the
same use does not crash any version of Opera.]
I don't like the way you worded your bug report. [So, he didn't read it or
think about it.]
You should run a debugger and find what causes this problem yourself.
[Then when you have done most of the work, tell us what causes the problem,
and we may fix it.]
Many bugs that are filed aren't important to 99.99% of the users.
If you are saying bad things about Mozilla and Firefox, you must be
trolling. [They say this even though Firefox and Mozilla instability is
beginning to be reported in media such as Information Week. See the links
to magazine articles in this Slashdot comment:
Firefox is
the most unstable program in common use
Your problem is probably caused by using extensions. [These are extensions
advertised on the Firefox and Mozilla web site, and recommended.]
Your problem is probably caused by a corrupt profile. [The same bug has
been reported many times over a period of four years. One of the reports
discusses an extensive te
Yes, it was proposed in Oregon. I emailed the elected official that proposes it, and said that he will go to prison if he continues. That seems to have made a difference. I think people in that office recognized that what I said made sense.
The proposal is pure government corruption, partly based on the extreme ignorance of technology of most people who are leaders now. In Oregon, the elected official was given "campaign contributions" from a company that makes GPS tracking devices.
Think about it. GPS location is PURELY a voluntary system. If there is any incentive to cheat, it cannot function. A little aluminum foil on the GPS antenna prevents tracking. What happens if an Oregon car is shown to have been driven in Mongolia during the month? Was that someone cheating, or a technological failure?
What happens if someone drives through streets broadcasting fake GPS satellite signals? Wow! All those cars were in Mongolia at the same time!
S&P is not a competent organization. The failure of all the rating agencies, not just Standard and Poor's, caused the present economic depression. The rating agencies rated derivatives AAA that were based on extremely shaky financing.
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Unfortunately, Mozilla Foundation suffers from poor management. The rapid unexplained major version changes are only the most visible evidence.
Mozilla Foundation is a rich, rich corporation. No one should make the mistake of thinking that work on Firefox is done mostly by volunteers.
Did you see $78.6 million worth of improvements in 2008?
Did you see improvements suggesting that Mozilla Foundation had $168 million in assets in 2010? (Official PDF file, see page 2. Numbers are in thousands, as it says at the top of the page.)
Firefox is a world-class asset. Firefox is extremely important partly because those who need to do a lot of research online depend on Firefox and Firefox add-ons such as Session Manager, Session Manager Export Tool, Mozilla Archive Format, Flashblock, Multi Links, and Tab Mix Plus. There is no substitute for the capabilities of Firefox together with Firefox Add-ons. (Add-ons are also known as extensions and plug-ins.) For those who do research, Firefox is simply the best browser. Firefox is literally a world-class asset.
Biggest flaw: Firefox is unstable. The first step in good management would be to fix the instability of Firefox. There would be a huge additional advantage in doing that, as someone else mentioned. Investigating how Firefox can be so unstable under Microsoft Windows might reveal flaws in Microsoft Windows that make the OS so unstable when using Firefox.
Firefox instabilities are experienced most frequently by those who open many Firefox windows and tabs and leave them open while putting the computer into standby or hibernation several times. That is the pattern of use of those who do a lot of online research.
An example of research: For example, in researching HDMI cables there are numerous manufacturers, distributors, online sellers, explanations of HDMI standards, explanations of the U.S. National Electrical Code, and online reviews. The research is made far more complicated by the many companies that try to take advantage of the ignorance of the average person about cables. Good research is important because HDMI cables are often embedded in the infrastructure of buildings. Poor cables may need to be replaced when video equipment is upgraded, sometimes requiring the tearing apart of walls. Equipment upgrades may be years away, but are almost certain to happen.
One condition of instability: Windows XP 32-bit with Service Pack 3, for example, becomes unstable when Firefox has taken all the available memory, and is beginning to require the OS to use virtual memory. It seems a reasonable guess that Microsoft will be slow to fix Windows instabilities since poor experiences encourage people to buy new versions. Microsoft requires payment of the full price for each new version of Windows. Microsoft does not allow upgrade pricing even when a previous version has had many flaws, as with Microsoft Windows Vista. The laws against unfair business practices of those who have virtual monopolies have had no effect on Microsoft, apparently.
Firefox crash info: Here are some links for those who want to discover more about the instabilities in Firefox.
about:crashes
Put about:crashes into your URL bar and press ENTER. Firefox will then show a list of crashes of the copy of Firefox on that computer.
Crash info for all users and all versions
https://crash-stats.mozilla.com/products/Firefox
Crashes per 100 active daily users, version 7.0.1, last week's version
https://crash-stats.mozilla.com/products/Fir
Firefox Crash Info
about:crashes
Put into your URL bar and press ENTER. Shows a list of crashes of your copy of Firefox.
Crash Info for all users and all versions
https://crash-stats.mozilla.com/products/Firefox
Crashes per 100 Active Daily Users, version 7.0.1
https://crash-stats.mozilla.com/products/Firefox/versions/7.0.1
Top Crashers, version 7.0.1
https://crash-stats.mozilla.com/topcrasher/byversion/Firefox/7.0.1/14
Notes:
1) The lists of crashes are ONLY the ones that Firefox caught. The lists do NOT include crashes that don't start the crash reporter.
2) Version 7.0.1 often stays in memory even though the GUI was closed.
3) The crashes are often preceded by rapidly increasing memory use. Firefox corrupts Microsoft Windows, so that Windows needs to be re-started. When Firefox corrupts Microsoft Windows, it often damages operations in Windows that are not connected with browsing.
4) Crashes are most frequent for those who do a lot of online research, and open many Firefox windows and tabs, and leave them open while putting the computer into standby or hibernation.
5) The crashes and memory gobbling have been reported for more than 9 years. Not much has improved, even though the change reports for every version say there have been "stability improvements".
Quote from the article: "Until Intel's next-gen, high-end Sandy Bridge-E processor is released sometime this quarter, Intel's second generation Core family of processors and the Z68 Express chipset are Intel's current premiere desktop platform for the mainstream."
I like the article, but who would buy old hardware? Supposedly Intel will release the next generation of chipsets next month. For example, the new chipsets will have all fast SATA and USB ports, instead of only 2 or 4.
Is there any science concerning her? All I saw in the BBC News story is speculation.
Seriously, if Microsoft destroys Skype, what will we use? Someone below mentioned Fring.
Interesting: Steven Paul Jobs.
Quote: "I have 3 kids (Lisa is not my daughter, enough of those rumors)."
Wikipedia: Steve Jobs.
Quote: "The couple have three children. Jobs also has a daughter, Lisa Brennan-Jobs (born 1978), from his relationship with Bay Area painter Chrisann Brennan.[43] She briefly raised their daughter on welfare when Jobs denied paternity, claiming that he was sterile; he later acknowledged paternity.[43]"
Wikipedia's reference 43 is page 2 of Fortune Magazine's March 5, 2008 article, The trouble with Steve Jobs.
Quote: "When Jobs had his own illegitimate child, also at the age of 23, he too struggled with his responsibilities. For two years, though already wealthy, he denied paternity while Lisa's mother went on welfare. At one point Jobs even swore in a signed court document that he couldn't be Lisa's father because he was "sterile and infertile, and as a result thereof, did not have the physical capacity to procreate a child." He later acknowledged paternity of Lisa, married Laurene Powell, a Stanford MBA, and fathered three more children. Lisa Brennan-Jobs, now 29, graduated from Harvard and is a writer."
From page 1 of that article: 'Pondering this issue, Stanford management science professor Robert Sutton discussed Jobs in his bestselling 2007 book, "The No Asshole Rule: Building a Civilized Workplace and Surviving One That Isn't." "As soon as people heard I was writing a book on assholes, they would come up to me and start telling a Steve Jobs story," says Sutton. "The degree to which people in Silicon Valley are afraid of Jobs is unbelievable. He made people feel terrible; he made people cry'
Another quote from page 1: "... his deployment of stock options at Apple and Pixar, which exposed both companies to backdating scandals."
From page 2: 'Jobs' break-the-rules attitude extends to refusing to put a license plate on his Mercedes. "It's a little game I play," he explained to Fortune in 2001.'
'One former board member described Anderson's role as "tantrum controller." '
'The company discovered "irregularities" with 6,428 grants between 1997 and 2001 - roughly one in six that Apple issued during that period. (New disclosure requirements after that time caused backdating to dry up.) The company also found no instances of backdating before Jobs took over as CEO. Apple was forced to restate its earnings, taking a pretax charge for unreported compensation expenses of $105 million.'
"Disney, which bought Pixar in 2006, also investigated and found a backdating problem there during Jobs' time as CEO."
Page 3: "Anderson, in an extraordinary public statement he issued after settling his case with the SEC, disputed Apple's exoneration of Jobs. Through his lawyer, he said he alerted Jobs to the accounting implications even as the CEO was in the process of picking a retroactive date for the grant to his top lieutenants. He also said Jobs assured him that the award had been properly approved by Apple's board."
Page 4: "It was a great speech, simple and moving - though it clearly left the false impression that Jobs had learned of his illness in mid-2004 and immediately proceeded to surgery, when in fact he had learned of it in October 2003."
I've studied the issues for many years, and have formed the theory that Job's abusiveness is possibly the cause of his illness.
Buy a 4-band GSM phone. That kind of phone has the most flexibility and can be used in 219 countries. References:
GSM (Global System for Mobile Communications)
GSM World
The GSM system uses different 4 bands. A phone that can use any of them is the most flexible.
When you get where you're going, go to a marketplace and buy a SIM card. That gives you a local number. If you meet someone you want to communicate with later, you will have a local number to give him or her. If you plan to communicate with the person after you leave, don't forget to exchange email addresses, because you will use a different SIM card in a different city, usually, and have a different number.
SIM, Subscriber Identity Module
I'm waiting for Firefox 300. Should be next month.
"... they've made so many bonehead moves over the last decade..." Agreed.
The HP board of directors has shown itself, over many years, to be utterly incompetent. This is one more example.
When a CEO is incompetent, the board of directors gets a new CEO. When a board of directors is incompetent, how can the problem be fixed? Does the problem go on and on, until the company goes bankrupt?
It's not just on Linux, I'm noticing weird behavior on Windows, too. Is it possible you don't use Firefox as much at work?
I don't like the rapid new versions; they break add-ons. Add-ons are the reason I use Firefox.
Version 6.02 of Firefox is very unstable, far more unstable than version 3.6.20. Firefox 6.02 crashes often when there are 100 tabs open, a situation that is common when doing research. Firefox 6.02 often crashes with no crash report.
Questions:
1) Why did the Mozilla team decide to play games with version numbers?
2) Google has been paying Mozilla Foundation more than $80 million each year. Can anyone say they have seen 80 million dollars of yearly development? Where does the money go?
3) Will Mozilla foundation lose its deal with Google? See this article, for example: Mozilla Extends Lucrative Deal With Google For 3 Years.
See this article also: How browsers make money, or why Google needs Firefox.
Quote: "Almost the entirety of Mozilla's income -- 97% of $104 million -- arrives in the form of royalties from the Firefox search box, and the lion's share (86%, $85 million) of those royalties are paid by the default search engine: Google.
"In November 2011, however, Mozilla's contract with Google will expire. It will then be renewed... or it will be allowed to lapse." [My emphasis]
4) Why is Firefox version 6.02 extremely unstable with many tabs and windows open? What happened? Firefox 3.6.20 was far more stable. What was done that caused the instability?
5) Why don't the Firefox programmers fix the memory and CPU hogging? It has been there for at least 8 years.
Yes, you should be worried, it seems to me. Your Apple product is on the edge of its thermal design limit, apparently. They cannot be used in Leadville, Colorado, to use an example mentioned below.
Electronics lasts longer if it is kept very cool.
Of course it is related to cooling. It's a defective design, in my opinion. How many people living in ski areas will notice the altitude limit?
Apple AirPort Extreme Technical Specs: "Maximum operating altitude: 10,000 feet". What?
Books recommended in the parent comment:
The Decline and Fall of the American Automobile Industry (1983)
The Decline and Fall of the American Automobile Industry (1983)
My Years with General Motors by Alfred P. Sloan (1964)
My Years with General Motors by Alfred P. Sloan (1964)
The Concept of the Corporation by Peter Drucker (1946)
The Concept of the Corporation by Peter Drucker (1946)
The Great Inflation and Its Aftermath: The Past and Future of American Affluence (2008)
The Great Inflation and Its Aftermath: The Past and Future of American Affluence (2008)
True, but HP said, effectively, "We're stupid!" Would you buy a printer from a company like that?
He spoke very publicly, and he appeared to be disclosing plans known inside HP. The implication of what he said is, "Don't buy anything from HP", and the stock market read it that way.
In my opinion, HP's steady downward slide began before CEO Lew Platt. It continued with the amazingly inept Carly Fiorina.
In our business we've had problems with HP laptops and printers, due to what appeared to us to be sloppy practices. We have a laptop owned by a friend that failed because of the bad nVidia video chip; it was arranged that few people got compensated. HP has sometimes made drivers for old HP hardware not available.
List of HP CEOs (Taken from Wikipedia): Patricia C. Dunn, Robert Wayman, Michael Capellas, Lewis E. Platt, John A. Young, Carly Fiorina, Mark Hurd, Rahul Sood, Leo Apotheker. See the article, How HP CEO Leo Apotheker Is Running HP Into the Ground, in foolish slide-show format.
Apparently Mr. Apotheker is abandoning the PC hardware business because he is uncomfortable with it. He was previously CEO of SAP, a software compnay.
"... those minutes in a year they roll to the next year if you buy another $100."
In the past, and maybe now, the minutes roll over if you buy another $10 or more.
After 3 months on the prepaid plan, T-Mobile would unlock you phone.
At least 8 1/2 x 14 inches.
11 x 17 is what we really need.
It's informative because little has changed. Firefox has become more stable, but it is still unstable when a total of 100 tabs or more are open.
We've been discussing the Firefox memory-hogging and CPU-hogging bug on Slashdot for about 10 years. Always someone joins the discussion who doesn't understand the issues, and doesn't try to understand the issues.
"Your trying to browse 3000 web sites at once and you expect your browser NOT to crash?"
As MurukeshM said, that is 30 windows with 100 tabs total. Many of those tabs are on the same web site. For example, try to compare Fujitsu scanners with scanners from other companies. Check the support options, the cost of accessories and supplies. Check the user reviews on Amazon.
Can anyone recommend a fast large-format flatbed scanner? *grin* We've already did the sheet-fed research and got a good sheet-feed scanner.
"I'm guessing that's because of lack of resources."
That sounds to many people like a reasonable guess, but it is incorrect. See this story: Mozilla Extends Lucrative Deal With Google For 3 Years.
Mozilla Foundation's audited financial statement from 2009: http://www.mozilla.org/foundation/documents/mf-2009-audited-financial-statement.pdf
Add-ons are the reason people use Firefox. Decisions are made that break Firefox Add-ons, without notice.
Firefox is extremely important because it is the only browser that has such an extensive list of add-ons. (Unfortunately, Add-ons are also called "extensions" and "plug-ins".) For some uses, the add-ons are so convenient that they can be considered necessary.
Firefox instability corrupts the Windows operating system. There is huge instability seen only by people who open many windows and tabs, and leave them open for a long time. (It is not necessary to say you don't experience this bug if you don't commonly have 30 or more windows with 100 or more tabs open for several hours. Those of us who must do research have needs different than the average user.) That particular Firefox instability has been there since version 1, perhaps 10 years ago. An example: Two days ago I had a crash in Firefox version 6.0 that did not generate a Talkback report.
Mozilla Foundation Top 20 Excuses for Not Fixing Firefox Bugs (Last updated in 2009.)
Here are the top 20 things Firefox and Mozilla developers say to those who report difficult bugs, collected over the last 8 years. See also the extensive information provided in this Slashdot comment, Firefox is the most unstable program in common use, and the links in the comment.
Yes, it was proposed in Oregon. I emailed the elected official that proposes it, and said that he will go to prison if he continues. That seems to have made a difference. I think people in that office recognized that what I said made sense.
The proposal is pure government corruption, partly based on the extreme ignorance of technology of most people who are leaders now. In Oregon, the elected official was given "campaign contributions" from a company that makes GPS tracking devices.
Think about it. GPS location is PURELY a voluntary system. If there is any incentive to cheat, it cannot function. A little aluminum foil on the GPS antenna prevents tracking. What happens if an Oregon car is shown to have been driven in Mongolia during the month? Was that someone cheating, or a technological failure?
What happens if someone drives through streets broadcasting fake GPS satellite signals? Wow! All those cars were in Mongolia at the same time!
See my comment on February 15, 2005, 1) Dupe of a dupe. 2) Stupid. 3) Corrupt.
S&P is not a competent organization. The failure of all the rating agencies, not just Standard and Poor's, caused the present economic depression. The rating agencies rated derivatives AAA that were based on extremely shaky financing.