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Posted by rabbitjoker on Oct-28-2004 16:49:

quote:
Originally posted by tw1tch
same shit different pile.

Posted by StereoPrincess on Nov-09-2004 22:30:

quote:
Originally posted by Durafei
It sucks that Mozilla didn't patent tabbed browsing

yeah i just saw on the microsoft website that there is a plug in for that for IE.

Posted by Durafei on Nov-10-2004 00:58:

Version 1.0 was finally released today

Posted by loconet on Nov-10-2004 01:08:

around 50,000 downloads /hour since the release....

Posted by dEsidEL on Nov-10-2004 01:10:

must grab !

Posted by loconet on Nov-10-2004 01:21:

Live Interview with Mozilla/Firefox developers..

rtsp://streaming.polycot.com/airmozilla.sdp

Posted by cono_sur on Nov-10-2004 01:22:

Firefox is awesome !

Hate IE. Hate it. Hate it. Hate it.

Posted by Matt on Nov-10-2004 01:22:

gonna grab 1.0 later.

any major additions? or is it just bug fixes for a major release?

Posted by Durafei on Nov-10-2004 01:28:

quote:
Originally posted by loconet
around 50,000 downloads /hour since the release....

Heheh.. that's nothing - Halo 2 just made 100,000,000USD after the first day of sales

Posted by Durafei on Nov-10-2004 01:35:

quote:
Originally posted by Matt
gonna grab 1.0 later.

any major additions? or is it just bug fixes for a major release?

probably mostly bug fixes.. however look for major corporations to start mass-producing plug-ins for it after this release.

Posted by loconet on Nov-10-2004 01:40:

quote:
Originally posted by Matt
gonna grab 1.0 later.

any major additions? or is it just bug fixes for a major release?

If you've tried the PRs then you wont' see much of a difference.

From the unofficial change log..

quote:

* New options for controlling where links from other applications open.
* New experimental options for controlling where links in web pages open. To make these experimental options appear, set browser.tabs.showSingleWindowModePrefs to true in about :config.
* Firefox is now available in 14 languages.

And improvements:

* "Sort by name" in Bookmarks should sort siblings, not children.
* Information bar (blocked popup, missing plugin, etc) should be closeable.
* View Source should use Find Toolbar.
* Find toolbar loses content when new tab clicked.
* Disable sites reloading onresize. (Many sites reload onresize to work around bugs in Netscape 4. This caused problems in Firefox due to tabs, the Find bar, and information bars.)

A nice surprise was the default page pointing to:

http://www.google.com/firefox

Maybe Durafei can tell us a little bit more about that?

Posted by Durafei on Nov-10-2004 01:45:

quote:
A nice surprise was the default page pointing to:

http://www.google.com/firefox

Maybe Durafei can tell us a little bit more about that?

Well, that was no surprise to me

Posted by Matt on Nov-10-2004 01:45:

quote:
Originally posted by Durafei
Heheh.. that's nothing - Halo 2 just made 100,000,000USD after the first day of sales

hmph... Halo sucks.

Tribes * > Halo

Posted by dEsidEL on Nov-10-2004 01:49:

are existing extensions retained with the new installation ?

Posted by Durafei on Nov-10-2004 02:18:

quote:
Originally posted by dEsidEL

are existing extensions retained with the new installation ?

What do you think???

Posted by harcourt on Nov-10-2004 02:48:

quote:
Originally posted by dEsidEL

are existing extensions retained with the new installation ?

Most of mine were.

Posted by arek on Nov-10-2004 02:54:

"pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis," which is a whopping 45 letters long and is defined as "a pneumoconiosis caused by the inhalation of very fine silicate or quartz dust.

Posted by Espresso on Nov-10-2004 04:05:

quote:
Originally posted by malek
seriously, tabbed browsing... biiiiiig deal. instead of having many IE windows open and then you click in the lower part of the screen to switch windows, you click on a tab in the upper part of the screen... big revolution

sorry malek but that's a silly comment.
opened 5 IE windows (all pointing to yahoo.com) total memory consumption:115,304 K
have 8 tabs opened in firefox pointing to 8 different sites with more pics, total memory :41,996 K
never thought about that, eh?

Posted by rabbitjoker on Nov-10-2004 04:11:

quote:
Originally posted by Espresso
sorry malek but that's a silly comment.
opened 5 IE windows (all pointing to yahoo.com) total memory consumption:115,304 K
have 8 tabs opened in firefox pointing to 8 different sites with more pics, total memory :41,996 K
never thought about that, eh?

What are you trying to do? Save money?

Go out a buy yourself a stick of ram and let it rip. WTF cares about 60k or 100k or even 20 MB of memory. With memory so cheap there is no reason to not have a whack.

Posted by Espresso on Nov-10-2004 04:20:

quote:
Originally posted by rabbitjoker
What are you trying to do? Save money?

Go out a buy yourself a stick of ram and let it rip. WTF cares about 60k or 100k or even 20 MB of memory. With memory so cheap there is no reason to not have a whack.

Microsoft should use that as their new motto (with your permission of course!) in their new ads:
what are you trying to do? Save money? our products make your system sucky and slow? who gives a rat's ass? go buy more memory!
and remember ..."With memory so cheap there is no reason to not have a whack!"

Posted by rabbitjoker on Nov-10-2004 04:21:

^^^^--- that is awesome.. made me laugh real good.

Posted by Durafei on Nov-10-2004 04:26:

quote:
Originally posted by rabbitjoker
What are you trying to do? Save money?

Go out a buy yourself a stick of ram and let it rip. WTF cares about 60k or 100k or even 20 MB of memory. With memory so cheap there is no reason to not have a whack.

RJ - I'm not sure if you are aware, but there is such a thing as Virtual Memory.. Meaning - when data in RAM isn't used for a while, Windows swaps it to hard drive, and then, when requested that data is brought up from disk to RAM(slow process). That explains why if you open an application, but then don't use it for a while, it takes a few seconds when you finally open that application's window again.

So there is a benefit to having applications with smaller memory footprint - they run faster !

Posted by rabbitjoker on Nov-10-2004 04:30:

I know exactly what you're talking about.

However in the day of ddr2 memory and super fast-spin hdds with large cache's - saving 20k, 40k, 100k or 20 MB doesn't matter.

We're not talking 500 MB image files here, we're talking about a friggin' browser app....

Posted by dEsidEL on Nov-10-2004 04:45:

hey every little bit helps ..

Posted by Matt on Nov-10-2004 05:13:

5x IE windows
Trillian/MSN/ICQ/AIM
Winamp
MS Word
Excel

it adds up. the less memory use = fewer memory leaks = faster browsing = more pr0n = more wanks per hour

I don't think anyone can argue with more wanking?

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