Firefox may already be

Post by palish » Sun, Mar 22, 2009, 10:32 PM UTC

qeorge wrote: post #19

palish wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I've been using Chrome as my primary browser for about .5 years now. Apart from a few crashes, it has been the best browser I've ever used. I don't see any ads after I click my Readability bookmarklet either. When I shut down my computer a few nights ago, I had 92 Chrome windows open, each with 6-12 tabs. Firefox probably would have died had I tried this. Two things annoyed me about Firefox. When it crashed, all open…

Regarding ads, the big advantage of AdBlock is that the request is never made to the ad server. Ad includes can get pretty bulky so it makes a difference. Regarding Chrome, I agree that having one process per window is a great idea. I have to ask though, what are you doing that is best accomplished with 92 browser windows open?

Heh. I just don't close browser windows, most of the time. I use alt-tab as a form of 'daily history', meaning when I press alt-tab, I can view all of what I've been looking at / doing for the day. So if I was reading about Numpy earlier in the day, then went to read something else, I'd open a new Chrome window. That way I can tab back and finish reading at some later point.

92 windows is of course extreme. My laptop had been on for a couple days at that point.

Post by FiveFiftyOne » Mon, Mar 23, 2009, 12:53 PM UTC

TweedHeads wrote: post #18

FiveFiftyOne wrote: post #11

Google is evil, Firefox is dead, Windows 7 is going to revolutionise the operating system world. None of them are true, yet they keep on getting sensationalist coverage in online media. When will the madness stop? Can't we have choice without trying kill off the incumbents all the time?

Attacks against google, firefox, apple, and praise windows .net mvc, etc? See a pattern here?

Considering I run XP, am diving into ASP.NET MVC with abandon and recently forsake OS X for all of this, I am definitely in a minority of one. I've always figured that you pick the tool for the job. At this point, the tool needs to be focused on Windows. Instead of feeding the boring product vs product, tool vs tool or tech vs tech war, online journos should grow a pair and start assessing stuff on individual merit. Maybe then, this industry would look less like a pack of squabbling pre-teens, and more like a cadre of professionals.

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