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Mozilla Firefox 3.0 Final (pg. 5)
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| kaniz |
You see, I hate the "Computers are better, so why bother writing efficient code" argument. As that just leads to sloppy / lazy coding, and then whats the point of increasing computing power, if your just going to write sloppy slow-running code for it and hope that the computing-power makes up the difference.
Write fast / efficient code and it will /blaze/ on a good computer, and not slow down your other applications.
That being said, I love FireFox, the only issue I had with it was its memory footprint, and that seems to be largely resolved in FF3. Just to test it out - I have 20 tabs open, quite a few of them are on some pretty resource-intensive pages (lots of javascript/flash/etc) and sitting at 174megs, which isn't that bad. |
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| Cosmic Fur |
| Flash is the ing devil. Absolutely terrible. When the is Adobe going to get off their ass and fix that piece of . |
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| zokissima |
| quote: | Originally posted by Porky
btw
microsoft should get their together. even to this day, i cannot install msn messenger on my vista box, even if i do a fresh factory install from install cds. |
That's why you use Windows Live Messenger. And it works. Just fine. Not really sure what you mean by getting their together exactly. |
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| rabbitjoker |
| It is fast, yes. |
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| zokissima |
| quote: | Originally posted by kaniz
That being said, I love FireFox, the only issue I had with it was its memory footprint, and that seems to be largely resolved in FF3. Just to test it out - I have 20 tabs open, quite a few of them are on some pretty resource-intensive pages (lots of javascript/flash/etc) and sitting at 174megs, which isn't that bad. |
lol I love how people use this completely arbitrary methodology for looking at a memory footprint. Want to get a correct reading? Open it up, hell even use 100 tabs if you must, but don't run anything, don't open any page. That's the true memory 'footprint' of it. You can open 20 tabs, each with an intensive webpage, and even go so far as to open docs, PDFs, you name it. Obviously the memory usage will be bigger.
But I agree with you regarding sloppy code. Thing is though, when you get newer releases of products, most of it is based on previously written modules. Optimization is kind of difficult at that point. It's just a natural product lifecycle. |
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| kaniz |
The memory footprint I care about is how much memory it's sucking up when I'm actually using it, not the memory it uses when I first start things up.
But, the 'fresh start, nothing loaded' footprint (+1 plugin) is only around 30 megs or so. |
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| smuncky |
| quote: | Originally posted by exstasie
The only good think aobut NCIX is that you can do online price matching which is helpful.
I ended up buying my RAM from some place called Memory Express or something like that located in Alberta because they had the chepeast shipping lol
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with DC, you get free shipping if the order is $300+. which was good in my case since i was buying all new parts for my build. btw, DC is a sister company of ncix. |
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| Tordan |
| great browser. much faster now! |
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| spolitta |
| Anyone noticed that increasing the front size in FF3 actually increases the size of the entire page, really cool effect. |
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| exstasie |
| quote: | Originally posted by smuncky
with DC, you get free shipping if the order is $300+. which was good in my case since i was buying all new parts for my build. btw, DC is a sister company of ncix. |
Yeah, i was actually going to buy my ram from DC, except they didn't have any in stock of what I wanted, plus I'm not one for waiting for it to re-stock, so I just bought it somewhere else.
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| VERTiG0 |
| quote: | Originally posted by iant56
the full version was up a couple weeks ago... |
Nah, it's been release candidates, which are post-beta but pre-RTM (release to manufacturing/market). The final, 100% finished product was out yesterday. |
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| VERTiG0 |
| quote: | Originally posted by Cosmic Fur
Flash is the ing devil. Absolutely terrible. When the is Adobe going to get off their ass and fix that piece of . |
Have you seen their Air platform? Some of the stuff written for Air is really, really cool.
http://www.freshairapps.com/ |
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