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Slightly offtopic but on crippling Firefox, too: I didn't need automatic updates because I used the nightlies of FF3.5 before it was called FF3.5, mainly to get
by yason 17y ago
Slightly offtopic but on crippling Firefox, too: I didn't need automatic updates because I used the nightlies of FF3.5 before it was called FF3.5, mainly to get my hands on the javascript JIT.
But then Chromium came.
Now I'll wait until Electrolysis fixes the biggest problem in the current Firefox: the sluggish bottleneck of the single UI thread that does all events and rendering for everything. It's not only slow but a single Flash video can bring down all my dozen tabs and while Firefox can restore them, it takes forever to load them in "parallel".
WebKit is quite crappy and odd, Chromium is still in its infancy but the user experience is an order of magnitude better almost solely because of multiprocessing.
It's amazing how a single thing can make so much of the difference merely by coming from the next decade. Now I'll just have to wait for the copycats to work their duty and I can go back to Firefox.