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by ootachi 16y ago
Me too, but replace Fluxbox with XFCE. XFCE 4.8 is actually quite usable and pretty. I'm impressed by the developers' attention to details, like the fact that you can alter settings of a panel no matter whether you right-click on the panel
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by ootachi 16y ago
There is work to give the user more control over this that unfortunately didn't make it into Firefox 4 [1], but ultimately it's a battle that can't be won; on the desktop, apps can modify other apps. I suspect that this will happen to Chrom
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by ootachi 16y ago
Whatever that bar is, it's not Mozilla official. Some other software on your computer put it there.
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by ootachi 16y ago
Graphics acceleration via OpenGL on Mac or Direct2D on Windows is a big one. Chrome doesn't have either in stable builds.
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by ootachi 16y ago
"they wouldn't spearheads CSS animations and transitions and all the stuff that can make web applications snazzier and cleaner, they wouldn't have the engine with the best HTML5 support by far." Firefox 4 has better HTML5 support than iOS,
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by ootachi 16y ago
The author addresses that in the post: "I've heard some arguments that it is crippled on purpose, because you don't want a website to start blaring music at you as soon as you open it. Fine, I understand that argument. But why not ask the u
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by ootachi 16y ago
Chrome doesn't have retained layers, so it has to redraw the entire page every time you scroll. In fact, no shipping browser has retained layers except Safari in limited circumstances (not scrolling AFAIK), although Firefox 4 will have it s
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by ootachi 16y ago
It's not only not a healthy trend, but it's a counterproductive one for you. You're at the stage in which working more is not going to help the startup, due to burnout, and the only sensible option is to work less.
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by ootachi 16y ago
IE9 doesn't support WebGL, but it does support 2D canvas (and it's accelerated, unlike e.g. Chrome, which only accelerates WebGL). 2D canvas is going to be around for a while. Plus, WebGL is not easy to use. The 2D canvas is simple to get s
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by ootachi 16y ago
Well, that will give you one patch, not the original series of patches. You'll get a big pile of code diffs, but grouping them logically together will be tough.
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by ootachi 16y ago
"You need a message name (@selector), and the names are strongly typed -- meaning, they're pretty obvious with reflection tools. If there's a way to send a dynamic message without putting a @selector in your code, I don't know it, and I'm w
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by ootachi 16y ago
That's assuming the malicious syscalls actually fire while Apple is reviewing the app. An iOS malware author would likely do everything possible to prevent the payload going off during the review process; it might be as simple as checking t
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by ootachi 16y ago
In Firefox 4 or 3.6?
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by ootachi 16y ago
Might want to mention that your chart works fine in Firefox 4 as well. The "Works best in Google Chrome" gives me eerie memories of the "Best Viewed in Internet Explorer" days.
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by ootachi 16y ago
Have you used Firefox 4, and if so, do you have things in particular that are slow?
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by ootachi 16y ago
"Secondly, when it comes to performance, IE has been getting better with every version while Firefox has been getting worse." Your point about the lack of out-of-process tabs is legitimate, but I'm unsure as to how Firefox is getting worse
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Steve Jobs: "I'll just sue you" (2010)(jonathanischwartz.wordpress.com)
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by ootachi 16y ago
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=465086
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by ootachi 16y ago
The rewrite of Netscape's code actually turned into Firefox, which was fairly successful by any metric. Sometimes rewrites are necessary, but they have to be driven from necessity, not simply from the desire to "start fresh".
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by ootachi 16y ago
Has anybody used SVG fonts on the Web? I'm curious. I realize that there's a bit of a chicken-and-egg problem with browsers not supporting it, but it seems to me that the really good features start picking up traction even when only a few
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by ootachi 16y ago
WebKit is essentially equal: http://www.ohloh.net/p/WebKit/analyses/latest
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by ootachi 16y ago
Any browser will be affected by that JS issue. JavaScript VM code is largely identical across platforms. See this post by a member of the Chrome team [1]. Hardware accelerated rendering (accelerated layers) is in fact enabled by default on
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by ootachi 16y ago
The DMCA provides the legal basis. The hardware controls access to protected works, so circumvention of it (i.e. modifying the hardware) is a crime.
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by ootachi 16y ago
ISO leads something to be desired: witness the glacial pace of C++0x (now C++1x). I'd prefer some standardization of VP8 - don't get me wrong - but going through ISO would likely be a mistake.
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by ootachi 16y ago
Install IE9 (yes, seriously; it comes with patches for the drivers). Failing that, turn DirectWrite off: go to about:config and switch gfx.font_rendering.directwrite.enabled to false.
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by ootachi 16y ago
The ad appears with Firefox as well. I believe visiting Google with any non-Chrome/Chromium browser triggers it.
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by ootachi 16y ago
Depends. Parody is covered under fair use in the United States and is subject to the same test used to determine fair use.
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by ootachi 16y ago
Most legal analysts now believe that no more works will ever enter the public domain. Copyright is perpetual.
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by ootachi 16y ago
I don't know where you heard that Mozilla is considering breaking the spec to improve JavaScript performance, but I can practically assure you that there are no plans to do that from what I've read.
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by ootachi 16y ago
"It should also be noted here, that it makes it very, very fast "when compared to other js engines", however, it makes it pretty slow when compared to a ton of other languages/runtimes. It's just misleading marketing speak to omit that." Ac

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