grahamedgecombe

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1. 31.▲
   by grahamedgecombe 14y ago

   For signed applets which get full privileges anyway, yes, Java will prompt you to accept the certificate. However, Java does not prompt before running unsigned applets (which run with limited privileges), and the actual security issue allow
2. 32.▲
   by grahamedgecombe 15y ago

   It often leads people to write code like this: try { // do stuff } catch (TheCheckedException ex) { // ignore it } then the code continues even though it could be in a bad state if an exception did occur. It
3. 33.▲
   by grahamedgecombe 15y ago

   I don't think it does that any more in recent versions of Chrome. There is an 'onbeforeload' event which can block the ads before they start loading.
4. 34.▲
   by grahamedgecombe 15y ago

   It's a shame browsers focus so much on JavaScript performance. I tried FF4 a few weeks ago and the user interface itself just feels slow whereas Chrome's interface is much snappier. It'd be great if all of the browser vendors realised that