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The reason why delicious add-ons are not available is not because of Firefox, but because of Yahoo! they have announced that delicious is closing so developers are unsurprisingly are not updating there plug-ins. I suggest you look at the vast array of add-ons for sites that are not closing down that offer similar functionality.
Wow. I noticed the opposite, and it seems to be the opposite of every benchmark posted everywhere on the net. In fact the major gain I have seen is not so much downloading sites is the the smooth scrolling at least on Linux. If you want to download speeds. I would suggest using the Auto Pager plug-in which aggregates sites split over several pages into one.
Its also an unsubstantiated thing to say, and beyond the scope of most people to prove. Although if you say it enough i5t becomes a truth. What is 100% true is Microsoft are happy to leave 60% of their customers using their old insecure browsers. Some of whom only bought there OS last year.
Maybe try it on a version of windows that wasn't released over 10 years ago...
but sold until a year ago, works well with old hardware, Windows 7 will not work on an awful lot of hardware. Although the real problem is Microsoft Bundling the OS with OEM and the excessive pricing of buying it separately. Then upgrading the OS may be practical, right now its not even with the skills.
MS announced no XP support for IE9 many months ago or maybe years ago.
Yes they have always tried to tie upgrade releases of IE to the OS which has help back its advancement for many years. It just doesn't work as well in a market of competing better browsers.
Getting rid of XP will soon become important in order to improve market share of "modern" browsers capable of rendering HTML5 / CSS3 reasonably correctly.
I think people moving to alternative browsers that support HTML5 / CSS3 correctly is cheaper and practical.
Yet they plan on getting it working on Windows Phone 7. XP was still sold on machines up until last year, and holds 50% of the market. Not really the same as Win 3.1 that is a little silly.
RMS does not take away your freedom as a Developer to choose whatever licence you want. The new App Stores do, and stop users installing their applications which is what he is saying.
the summary is that the performance differences are explained by relatively small bugs in Firefox, bugs in IE9, and bugs in the benchmarks, not due to any major architectural issues in Firefox (as Microsoft would have you believe).
Lol not sure why your being posted down. Microsoft as a company should have been split been OS and Applications. IE9 only works with Vista SP2 and Above. Firefox/Chrome/Opera run on all major Operating sytems/phones/tablets. IE9 is currently aiming at 40% of Desktop users every other company is aiming for ALL devices attached to the net.
The problem with IE9 is that already it is not as standards compliant or complete as competing browsers. In fact the specifications are still moving. IE9 is old on release and we still do not know when the next release will be it could be years. IE9 is still only available on Vista SP2 and above.
I saw what you did there. Figures particularly world wide percentages. For instance your 3% for Linux users, Does not say 35% of smartphones users use Linux. Or Firefox has the majority market share in Europe. Or IE9 is only available on the Microsoft OS SP2 and above. While the rest are cross platform...work on smartphones tablets etc.
People keep computers for about 5 years. Almost nobody updates. Ignoring the growth of new form factors of which Microsoft is not part of...or smartphones. The competitors will realease 9-12 versions of their browsers. Internet Explorer is already old on release.
the summary is that the performance differences are explained by relatively small bugs in Firefox, bugs in IE9, and bugs in the benchmarks, not due to any major architectural issues in Firefox (as Microsoft would have you believe).
the summary is that the performance differences are explained by relatively small bugs in Firefox, bugs in IE9, and bugs in the benchmarks, not due to any major architectural issues in Firefox (as Microsoft would have you believe).
Much as I agree with the sentiment. It seems a little hollow pointing out Windows Updates. Microsoft never intended to have such a long term release of XP, which needed SP2 out one of the delays for Vista. Vista itself was undelivered on its promises. Hardware has only just caught up, Many users simply do not have an upgrade path. This is with XP still sold on machines until late last year, but the big irony is IE9 is not available to pre Vista SP2.
Microsoft act in their own self interest which I hope is in yours too. Although I very much doubt it will be.
Does your Laptop really work well with Windows7/Vista on an 855GM chipset!? no it doesn't Its simply not true. Lets face it its an old chipset that is not supported http://www.intel.com/support/graphics/sb/CS-030907.htm in fact its the oldest chipset mentioned. Does it work on Linux, by your own admission it does with the workaround as easy as editing your xorg.conf. What is true though is Intel dropped the ball when they introduce KMS/UMS, in fact these drivers introducing regressions while adding needed features after finally getting involved in Linux. I am glad they did; intel drivers were pretty poor, and have been moving and shaking since hell notice mobody mentions config files now x.org doesn't need one. Work is still continuing on i8xx drivers so people will not experience problems in future although none are perfect. There are workarounds available, and no its not an answer.
That said i8xx on intel/pulseaudio/compiz are all examples of how not to introduce large numbers of users to revolutionary changes, but these are the exceptions not the norm, and have brought major benfits, as painful as the transition as been for some. What is not true is this chipset works on windows and not on Linux in fact it works on Linux and not on windows
I love Linux, Your post doesn't ring true. Multimedia on Linux is an area has been better on Linux for a long time. In fact the framework that these sit on gstreamer/ffmpeg and are used by the likes of VLC on Windows.
Linux Developers Do Have access to proprietary information, Linus Prides himself that most of the kernel is produced by paid employees of HARDWARE COMPANIES.
Who the hell isn't an Android fan. I have personally been in Awe of Android. Every week you see Activation Daily, Little graphs showing Market share. You read an article about Android you know it will contain the words "Explosive Growth" . From a company Vilified by the Media. It has incredibly good phones in every price bracket/form factor. It is updated every six months. Has stunning first party Applications, and massive Library of third-party Applications, which in itself is growing at an astonishing pace.
I think the worry with Mono is using Microsoft IP(sic) is perhaps not a good choice...see that little Oracle and Google thing happening with Java, only with a CEO talking about "protecting IP of shareholders", and bullying Phone Manufacturers to produce a Sinking Windows Phone 7 and getting them to pay an Android Tax to use a dirty fix on a Quick and Dirty Filesytem. That and he creates troll posts to point out he is working on getting Mono on iPad. All in all I'm happy for him and Banshee/Tomboy are great, but I have no illusions that Microsoft can and will pull the rug as and when. If it serves their interest to do so.
I suspect you are being disingenuous. The days of buying hardware from a list printed on the inlay of your Linux Distribution are long gone. The expectation is everything will work. Having used Linux for a long time is the move towards universal hardware support has been incredible. I took a hard drive out of an laptop and put it in a new Revo and it just worked Hdmi Video/Audio out I was astonished. Does Linux work on a variety of different devices course it does "Android"/"Supercomputers" does it work well on old hardware absolutely GCC/Application Improvements/Unix Design/Well Managed Kernel. Now is it possible poor hardware support has driven you back to Windows., but its interesting that the two items mentioned in this thread by name a quick Google exposed its support for Years, and the other I use daily and the drivers for the 5 year old device were only available on Windows in the past 6 Months. That and have you noticed nobody mentions Wireless being a problem anymore.
LOL he has pointed out his solution, and Nvidia had a good reputation on the Linux desktop...and clearly he is having success with it, btw the article refers to the iPad not really the best example of 3D windows gaming. Ati has a well deserved bad reputation on Linux, because it was awful...Intel drivers were even worse, but people expectations were pretty low anyway. Ati's open source drivers are improving no end with real documentation and some manufacture involvement, and the proprietary drivers have been improving as well, blogs dedicated to how poor they are have vanished off the internet. Although years ago I was running an x800 with the open source drivers and would have no problem recommending them now. That said Miguel from his post is simply out of touch and he makes some pretty strange unsupported comments, pointing out apple products for there good 3D drivers is simply a lie. Video drivers have improved immeasurably from the dark ages of only a few years ago, and more improvement needs to done, but from one who is has lived and used Linux on many graphics cards. The dark days have gone, and the future looks awful bright.
I believe your suffering from a new order of things. Proprietary drivers on Desktop Linux were the best solution to overall general bad 3D support on Linux. Now we are seeing Manufacture supported open source drivers receiving all the love, and albeit need more fps...and more love are simply better than Nvidia can do. That said Nvidia drivers are pretty good, and I am surprised they are not working.
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The reason why delicious add-ons are not available is not because of Firefox, but because of Yahoo! they have announced that delicious is closing so developers are unsurprisingly are not updating there plug-ins. I suggest you look at the vast array of add-ons for sites that are not closing down that offer similar functionality.
Wow. I noticed the opposite, and it seems to be the opposite of every benchmark posted everywhere on the net. In fact the major gain I have seen is not so much downloading sites is the the smooth scrolling at least on Linux. If you want to download speeds. I would suggest using the Auto Pager plug-in which aggregates sites split over several pages into one.
Its also an unsubstantiated thing to say, and beyond the scope of most people to prove. Although if you say it enough i5t becomes a truth. What is 100% true is Microsoft are happy to leave 60% of their customers using their old insecure browsers. Some of whom only bought there OS last year.
Maybe try it on a version of windows that wasn't released over 10 years ago...
but sold until a year ago, works well with old hardware, Windows 7 will not work on an awful lot of hardware. Although the real problem is Microsoft Bundling the OS with OEM and the excessive pricing of buying it separately. Then upgrading the OS may be practical, right now its not even with the skills.
MS announced no XP support for IE9 many months ago or maybe years ago.
Yes they have always tried to tie upgrade releases of IE to the OS which has help back its advancement for many years. It just doesn't work as well in a market of competing better browsers.
Getting rid of XP will soon become important in order to improve market share of "modern" browsers capable of rendering HTML5 / CSS3 reasonably correctly.
I think people moving to alternative browsers that support HTML5 / CSS3 correctly is cheaper and practical.
Yet they plan on getting it working on Windows Phone 7. XP was still sold on machines up until last year, and holds 50% of the market. Not really the same as Win 3.1 that is a little silly.
RMS does not take away your freedom as a Developer to choose whatever licence you want. The new App Stores do, and stop users installing their applications which is what he is saying.
Owning two computers on a desk does does not make you a geek. It just shows you cannot take advantage virtualization
So when you say 10x faster its not really is it. Anyway I guess you have seen this post as to why IE9 looks so fast on those tests.
http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/roc/archives/2011/03/investigating_p.html [mozillazine.org]
the summary is that the performance differences are explained by relatively small bugs in Firefox, bugs in IE9, and bugs in the benchmarks, not due to any major architectural issues in Firefox (as Microsoft would have you believe).
I chose my browser based on consumer choice not emotion, perhaps you should do the same.
Lol not sure why your being posted down. Microsoft as a company should have been split been OS and Applications. IE9 only works with Vista SP2 and Above. Firefox/Chrome/Opera run on all major Operating sytems/phones/tablets. IE9 is currently aiming at 40% of Desktop users every other company is aiming for ALL devices attached to the net.
The problem with IE9 is that already it is not as standards compliant or complete as competing browsers. In fact the specifications are still moving. IE9 is old on release and we still do not know when the next release will be it could be years. IE9 is still only available on Vista SP2 and above.
I saw what you did there. Figures particularly world wide percentages. For instance your 3% for Linux users, Does not say 35% of smartphones users use Linux. Or Firefox has the majority market share in Europe. Or IE9 is only available on the Microsoft OS SP2 and above. While the rest are cross platform...work on smartphones tablets etc.
People keep computers for about 5 years. Almost nobody updates. Ignoring the growth of new form factors of which Microsoft is not part of...or smartphones. The competitors will realease 9-12 versions of their browsers. Internet Explorer is already old on release.
So when you say 10x faster its not really is it. Anyway I guess you have seen this post as to why IE9 looks so fast on those tests.
http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/roc/archives/2011/03/investigating_p.html
the summary is that the performance differences are explained by relatively small bugs in Firefox, bugs in IE9, and bugs in the benchmarks, not due to any major architectural issues in Firefox (as Microsoft would have you believe).
So when you say 10x faster its not really is it. Anyway I guess you have seen this post as to why IE9 looks so fast on those tests.
http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/roc/archives/2011/03/investigating_p.html
the summary is that the performance differences are explained by relatively small bugs in Firefox, bugs in IE9, and bugs in the benchmarks, not due to any major architectural issues in Firefox (as Microsoft would have you believe).
Much as I agree with the sentiment. It seems a little hollow pointing out Windows Updates. Microsoft never intended to have such a long term release of XP, which needed SP2 out one of the delays for Vista. Vista itself was undelivered on its promises. Hardware has only just caught up, Many users simply do not have an upgrade path. This is with XP still sold on machines until late last year, but the big irony is IE9 is not available to pre Vista SP2.
Microsoft act in their own self interest which I hope is in yours too. Although I very much doubt it will be.
Does your Laptop really work well with Windows7/Vista on an 855GM chipset!? no it doesn't Its simply not true. Lets face it its an old chipset that is not supported http://www.intel.com/support/graphics/sb/CS-030907.htm in fact its the oldest chipset mentioned. Does it work on Linux, by your own admission it does with the workaround as easy as editing your xorg.conf. What is true though is Intel dropped the ball when they introduce KMS/UMS, in fact these drivers introducing regressions while adding needed features after finally getting involved in Linux. I am glad they did; intel drivers were pretty poor, and have been moving and shaking since hell notice mobody mentions config files now x.org doesn't need one. Work is still continuing on i8xx drivers so people will not experience problems in future although none are perfect. There are workarounds available, and no its not an answer.
That said i8xx on intel/pulseaudio/compiz are all examples of how not to introduce large numbers of users to revolutionary changes, but these are the exceptions not the norm, and have brought major benfits, as painful as the transition as been for some. What is not true is this chipset works on windows and not on Linux in fact it works on Linux and not on windows
I love Linux, Your post doesn't ring true. Multimedia on Linux is an area has been better on Linux for a long time. In fact the framework that these sit on gstreamer/ffmpeg and are used by the likes of VLC on Windows.
Linux Developers Do Have access to proprietary information, Linus Prides himself that most of the kernel is produced by paid employees of HARDWARE COMPANIES.
Linux had problems, but these arn't them.
Who the hell isn't an Android fan. I have personally been in Awe of Android. Every week you see Activation Daily, Little graphs showing Market share. You read an article about Android you know it will contain the words "Explosive Growth" . From a company Vilified by the Media. It has incredibly good phones in every price bracket/form factor. It is updated every six months. Has stunning first party Applications, and massive Library of third-party Applications, which in itself is growing at an astonishing pace.
I think the worry with Mono is using Microsoft IP(sic) is perhaps not a good choice...see that little Oracle and Google thing happening with Java, only with a CEO talking about "protecting IP of shareholders", and bullying Phone Manufacturers to produce a Sinking Windows Phone 7 and getting them to pay an Android Tax to use a dirty fix on a Quick and Dirty Filesytem. That and he creates troll posts to point out he is working on getting Mono on iPad. All in all I'm happy for him and Banshee/Tomboy are great, but I have no illusions that Microsoft can and will pull the rug as and when. If it serves their interest to do so.
I suspect you are being disingenuous. The days of buying hardware from a list printed on the inlay of your Linux Distribution are long gone. The expectation is everything will work. Having used Linux for a long time is the move towards universal hardware support has been incredible. I took a hard drive out of an laptop and put it in a new Revo and it just worked Hdmi Video/Audio out I was astonished. Does Linux work on a variety of different devices course it does "Android"/"Supercomputers" does it work well on old hardware absolutely GCC/Application Improvements/Unix Design/Well Managed Kernel. Now is it possible poor hardware support has driven you back to Windows., but its interesting that the two items mentioned in this thread by name a quick Google exposed its support for Years, and the other I use daily and the drivers for the 5 year old device were only available on Windows in the past 6 Months. That and have you noticed nobody mentions Wireless being a problem anymore.
LOL he has pointed out his solution, and Nvidia had a good reputation on the Linux desktop...and clearly he is having success with it, btw the article refers to the iPad not really the best example of 3D windows gaming. Ati has a well deserved bad reputation on Linux, because it was awful...Intel drivers were even worse, but people expectations were pretty low anyway. Ati's open source drivers are improving no end with real documentation and some manufacture involvement, and the proprietary drivers have been improving as well, blogs dedicated to how poor they are have vanished off the internet. Although years ago I was running an x800 with the open source drivers and would have no problem recommending them now. That said Miguel from his post is simply out of touch and he makes some pretty strange unsupported comments, pointing out apple products for there good 3D drivers is simply a lie. Video drivers have improved immeasurably from the dark ages of only a few years ago, and more improvement needs to done, but from one who is has lived and used Linux on many graphics cards. The dark days have gone, and the future looks awful bright.
I believe your suffering from a new order of things. Proprietary drivers on Desktop Linux were the best solution to overall general bad 3D support on Linux. Now we are seeing Manufacture supported open source drivers receiving all the love, and albeit need more fps...and more love are simply better than Nvidia can do. That said Nvidia drivers are pretty good, and I am surprised they are not working.