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Microsoft are coming out swinging at Google with their latest browser and Operating System. Their Cortana search feature is impressive, and very well integrated. Even Windows 10 isn't shying away with a search field located in the main task bar. These features are there to try and chip away at Google's search dominance. It will be interesting to see if it works. If Microsoft makes a browser people want to use, Chrome…
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Alt+D sadly doesn't work in every language, Ctrl+L is independent of the UI language.
not on windows for some time, but i recall F4 also does that on all languages. i think ^L just focused the address bar, F4 focused the address bar and already opened the recently typed dropdown.
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That's not really true. I don't use ad blockers, but I still care about my browser speed.
I am curious why you do not, have you tried? Life is bliss.
I need to experience the web day to day the same way most other people do otherwise I have a rather distorted picture of things.
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It feels to me like current benchmarks all measure execution time, not user time. Let's say you go from a reasonably sized web page to another, and then hit the back button. How long to load the previous page? Right click on a link and select open in new tab. How long does it take to open a new tab? It's definitely part of the user's perception of the browser's speed, but I don't think stuff like SunSpider and Octane…
Heavily related to this, one key insight that I think has been neglected is that JavaScript benchmarks do a bad job of measuring cold code. Most code on the Web is cold, because much Web browsing consists of fresh page loads. Heavily optimizing JITs are exactly what you don't want for cold code: time spent compiling is time you could have been spending running the code. But benchmarks consist of running the same code…
I care about HTML and CSS with as little JavaScript as possible. The best code to optimize is the one isn't there in first place.
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Not going to non-standard site ? I never ever go to site which its developer put ads every where he/she liked. I have very restricted list of sites which I think are good enough my attention and time. p.s. and I spend 7 8 hour a day sitting and reading material and documents from net. p.s-2. And I am okey with standard ads.Site owners has right to make living to, and I think using ads-blocker is selfish act.
> Site owners has right to make living to Site owners have the right to make a living. They do not have a right to waste my bandwidth, damage my hearing, or compromise my security. > I think using ads-blocker is selfish act Perhaps, but it's a reaction to the considerably more selfish trend in advertising.
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That's not really true. I don't use ad blockers, but I still care about my browser speed.
I am curious why you do not, have you tried? Life is bliss.
I think ad blocking days are numbered, the more mainstream it becomes the more likley the ad networks are to respond.
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I am curious why you do not, have you tried? Life is bliss.
You may also want a website you a reading to stay in business and proffit from their work. I think ad blocking days are numbered, the more mainstream it becomes the more likley the ad networks are to respond.
If Edge is not on approximate feature parity with Chrome (it isn't), then the benchmark is meaningless.
I personally use my browser to, well... browse the internet?
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This. having just traveled overseas, i was shocked that nobody, and i mean nobody!, had a iphone 6 or macbook. all i saw (in a middle to upper class setting) was moto E phones and asus and toshiba laptops. The better off people had Dells laptops and samsung phones.
Because MacBook is obviously better than all the systems you mentioned /s.
If you are actually using your laptop to something else than purely browsing the web, you can not go wrong with MacBook, but they are very expensive outside of U.S.
On the opposite side if you are just using your laptop to surf the web then either go with Chromebook or a tablet.
I used Chromebook for few years as my main development machine and while you can get most things working now when I switched to MacBook there is no competition between it and any other laptop I've ever seen. Worst thing about it is the Cmd/Windows and Alt keys being switched around.