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by ootachi 16y ago
Make sure you're using mozRequestAnimationFrame() and not setInterval(). This is by far the commonest reason for slow performance in Firefox 4.x. I looked through your source and found only setInterval(), so that may be the problem.
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by ootachi 16y ago
I'm pretty sure IE was hyped as a Netscape killer... which is what it ultimately, sadly, did.
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by ootachi 16y ago
ffmpeg is patent encumbered. If "just ship ffmpeg" were an option, then this wouldn't be an issue in the first place.
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by ootachi 16y ago
But QuickTime doesn't work better for users. The technology is dated and does nothing that HTML5 doesn't do better. In fact, Flash is actually far better for consumers than QuickTime; at least it's updated regularly, unlike QT. This cuts
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by ootachi 16y ago
Easiest example: You can do "instanceof T" with generic T in C#. You can't in Java.
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by ootachi 16y ago
"Meanwhile, consumers don't buy functional programming languages." Unlike Apple, Microsoft is also interested in business models that aren't B2C.
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by ootachi 16y ago
Dude, you're using synchronous XHR. You're blocking the entire UI on the network request (which happened to be slow when you tested it in Firefox, which is why you blamed Firefox). Switch to async mode!
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by ootachi 16y ago
Usually comments like yours are the result of relying on precise setTimeout()/setInterval(). Firefox has a very coarse-grained setTimeout/setInterval (it's capped at 10ms) compared to WebKit. Mozilla can't change this easily as it breaks th
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by ootachi 16y ago
Performance was the main selling point of Firefox 4, so I'm at a bit of a loss as to how you can claim that Mozilla doesn't focus on performance.
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by ootachi 16y ago
That's the problem with Quora for me. When it first started to get big, I tried searching for things that weren't startup- or Silicon Valley-related, and the results were practically nonexistent. Maybe that's changed since then, but it didn
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by ootachi 16y ago
What do you dislike about Firefox's UI? I could never go back from Firefox 4 to Firefox 2 or 3.
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by ootachi 16y ago
I'd take the one that makes full-time offers immediately in a heartbeat, because I wouldn't trust the company that does the 3-month, no-benefits contracting "test". Going to work for a company with employees of varying skill is no big deal;
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by ootachi 16y ago
That "opportunity" is not worth having no company-provided health insurance, nor is it worth paying both halves of the FICA tax, except for the desperate.
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by ootachi 16y ago
Changing the world doesn't have to be through starting a company. Often times, employees of companies, even established ones, end up changing the world. That's the entire point of the article, and one that squares well with the evidence. Co
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by ootachi 16y ago
The app actually is crashing phones. It turns out that it's quite possible for apps to crash most Android phones, either by making the phone so unresponsive that a watchdog kicks in, or by using so much RAM that the OOM killer goes to tow
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by ootachi 16y ago
On Windows, automake is an order of magnitude slower to compile than the projects generated by CMake, not to mention that compiling with MSVC is very difficult to make work at all with autotools. automake just isn't a viable option if your
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by ootachi 16y ago
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=465086 There is a patch there, it just didn't get reviewed in time for Firefox 4.
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by ootachi 16y ago
Well, Firefox basically does that already, then. You can enter search terms in the URL bar and hit Enter to search. If you then hide the search box, you've got what you suggest.
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by ootachi 16y ago
Firefox has had plugin isolation for Flash since 3.6.4 on Windows, and Firefox 4 brings that to all platforms.
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by ootachi 16y ago
To make it easier to grab the window and move it. You can maximize the window, and since you can't move it anymore once it's maximized, the tabs will move to the right of the Firefox button. This doesn't work on Linux, due to window manager
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by ootachi 16y ago
IMHO the biggest thing that Firefox 4 has over Chrome is graphics acceleration via Direct2D on Windows and GL retained layers on the Mac. Chrome has neither in stable builds. Graphics acceleration helps scrolling performance in particular a
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by ootachi 16y ago
IIRC in those locales the Character Encoding menu is under the main Firefox menu.
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by ootachi 16y ago
All licensed games had that seal. It was nothing more than a marker that the standard licensing process, which is not particularly different from console to console, was followed.
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by ootachi 16y ago
But game publishers don't do this, and haven't for years. What they do is precisely to "turn it out asap at the lowest cost possible".
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Nintendo to ‘Hobbyist’ Developers: No Thanks(daringfireball.net)
17 points by ootachi 16y ago|26 comments
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by ootachi 16y ago
In most cases, those plugins are there because some other app put them there, not because they're actually used. The most notable exception is probably Silverlight for Netflix.
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by ootachi 16y ago
But surely the interest makes up for this. It wouldn't make financial sense for the lender otherwise; why lend money to homeowners if it won't beat inflation than, say, invest it in the stock market?
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by ootachi 16y ago
Are home screen-pinned web apps separate processes? This makes sense for UIWebViews, but not for web apps pinned to the home screen.
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by ootachi 16y ago
It'd be awesome if someone actually reverse engineered the algorithm and created a bookmarklet to reproduce it. This page [1] seems to have a lot of useful info. [1]: http://www.satzansatz.de/cssd/onhavinglayout.html
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by ootachi 16y ago
What in particular do you prefer in Chrome and Safari over Firefox 4?

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