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Good news: Mozilla fixed their damn browser

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Re: Good news: Mozilla fixed their damn browser

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Post by bryanlarsen »

tytso wrote: post #47

So a couple of corrections that people are getting wrong over and over again in this discussion. The reason why data=ordered is the default is not because it's more likely for the file system to be recovered after a crash. It's default for security reasons. The "data-writeback" mount option has the tradeoff that there can be uninitialized blocks attached to files after a crash. These uninitialized blocks could contai…

I think we can consider this authoritative: Theodore T'so is the maintainer of ext3 & ext4.

Re: Good news: Mozilla fixed their damn browser

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Post by otherpope »

viraptor wrote: post #33
joejohnson wrote: post #19

What are people's overall impressions of Firefox 9?

I don't remember anymore - running 11.0a now. I'm using nightly builds since ~2009 and haven't experienced any issues so far (really - not even a random crash). The difference is so huge in overall performance, I don't want to go to the "stable" release anymore. The only problem are some less common plugins, but adblock and firebug get updated within days... and I just switch to the latest official release for quake…

"I don't remember anymore - running 11.0a now. I'm using nightly builds since ~2009"

Likewise. I also have several extensions enabled and generally have 30+ tabs open all the time, sometimes many times that. I have had an odd crash but very rarely.

Re: Good news: Mozilla fixed their damn browser

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Post by otherpope »

Zirro wrote: post #35
otherpope wrote: post #32

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I used to recommend Iron but I don't anymore. I became increasingly uncomfortable with the lack of documentation and lack of transparency in the project. They delivered their source code as two code dumps on rapidshare last time I checked. Something just doesn't feel right at all.

http://chromium.hybridsource.org/the-iron-scam may be worth checking out, as well.

Thanks. That confirms my suspicions.

Re: Good news: Mozilla fixed their damn browser

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Post by nknight »

jrockway wrote: post #49
RexRollman wrote: post #45

Earlier quoted context omitted.

In my opinion, obsolete software is software that is no longer maintained.

The current version of the "extended filesystem" is 4, not 3.

That doesn't mean ext3 is unmaintained.

http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux%2Fkernel%2Fgit%2Ftorvalds%2Fl...

Re: Good news: Mozilla fixed their damn browser

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Post by RexRollman »

nknight wrote: post #54
jrockway wrote: post #49

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The current version of the "extended filesystem" is 4, not 3.

That doesn't mean ext3 is unmaintained. http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux%2Fkernel%2Fgit%2Ftorvalds%2Fl...

Exactly, and both JFS and XFS are still maintained as well. In fact, this is where all file systems should strive to get: stable releases with bug fixes only.

Re: Good news: Mozilla fixed their damn browser

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Post by gruturo »

pyre wrote: post #48
gruturo wrote: post #46

Earlier quoted context omitted.

./firefox -P someotherprofile -no-remote (assuming you created someotherprofile via Profile Manager - it's dead easy) (Works on Windows, too)

Right, but in Chrome it's as easy as Ctrl + Shift + n from another Chrome window. edit: I'll note that I don't believe that the parent to this post should be down-voted. It was informative and on-topic.

Maybe I would have deserved a downvote for forgetting to mention that after opening the second Firefox session you still have to switch it to Private Browsing :-))))
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