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lbenes
13y ago
I’ve seen dozens if not hundreds of infected machines. By far the most common infection vector comes from unpatched browsers or their plugins. It looks like my browser was not updating because of a 1.5 year old bug #711475 which is still ma
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lbenes
13y ago
Thanks for the reply. It was an honest question. I'm in IT and am responsible for FF being on the default image of hundreds of PC installs. I want to see FF desktop competitive, so that we all have a choice again. It's great that
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lbenes
13y ago
Exactly my point. I was talking about Mozilla diverting resources from FF Desktop to FF OS. As a result, their desktop browser has fallen behind "modern browsers" like IE and Chrome. It's lacking key features like multi-proce
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lbenes
13y ago
I used Firefox since from the Firebird days until the memory bloat in 4.0 drove me to Chome. Now every time I try to go back, I find Firefox behind the competition. For example, when I loaded up FF to test out ASM.js, I found I was still on
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lbenes
13y ago
It's not. I think it would have been more insightful, if they outputted the text file to WAV instead, and then compared the audio quality of MP3 compressed version of the WAV file. Bring the Noise. Only true audiophiles can hear the di
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lbenes
14y ago
>I'd really love to see some browser comparison stats that go in-depth on this. Basically the only numbers http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/internet-explorer-10-chr... In the 40 tab test, Chrome used 1619MB while FF only used 872MB
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14y ago
Congratulations on winning the Merck contest! That was an impressive demonstration. About 12 years ago, I switched from a Bio major to CS. I hoped to major in AI, but after taking 2 upper level classes, one focusing on symbolic AI and the o
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lbenes
14y ago
So basically, you're getting an Android phone, minus the 700,000 Apps? Thanks, but no thanks. The whole idea of using HTML, CCS, and JavaScript as the back end technology for a low-end smartphone is nuts. Even the best HTML rendering engine
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14y ago
sorry, could not submit comment earlier. just testing