Friday, September 5, 2008

Non-Politics-Related Post

But related to the internets, so...

What are you all using for web browsing these days, because the new Firefox is eating memory to the point where I can't listen to Don Johnson on the Napster while trying to soccernet and IM with the wife?

Safari? Explorer? Something so cool no one (me) has ever heard of it?

PS: Now that I am getting my first taste of the musical stylings of Don Johnson in 20 years, it is possible that Firefox was desperately trying to do me a favor.
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12 comments:

  1. wobblieSeptember 5, 2008 at 3:48 PM

    I'm still Firefoxing with no troubles. Google has a beta-browser out now that I've heard some people really like - fwiw.

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  2. lex dexterSeptember 5, 2008 at 3:56 PM

    hey wobs, what does "beta" mean in that context?

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  3. wobblieSeptember 5, 2008 at 4:19 PM

    Here ya go - beta.

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  4. mike3550September 5, 2008 at 4:23 PM

    Isn't everything Google puts out there in "beta"? That way, when they have 90% market share, they can start charging for the full release and all of us are screwed.

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  5. wobblieSeptember 5, 2008 at 4:28 PM

    Mike, Mike, Mike. They're corporate motto is "Don't be evil." Where's your trust? So what if they have terrabytes of information on their servers?

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  6. wobblieSeptember 5, 2008 at 4:28 PM

    And I don't think Google Earth is in beta anymore, or Desktop, for that matter.

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  7. dave3544September 5, 2008 at 5:03 PM

    Could someone please answer my question?

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  8. drSeptember 5, 2008 at 8:04 PM

    I use both firefox and safari on my mac, and firefox on the pc at work. My work computer is awful. Are you saying I can blame firefox?

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  9. dave3544September 5, 2008 at 8:44 PM

    If your version of firefox is using 135MB of memory constantly. And 89-100% of CPU.

    I do not know what the above means. Only that my computer works like shit when this is happening.

    Work and home.

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  10. AnonymousSeptember 5, 2008 at 10:38 PM

    Safari at home, Firefox at work (Fedora).

    Chrome, the google browser, is free and open source, now and forever. They've released it under a free software license (creative commons, I think), so they're committed.

    David Pogue has an excellent review, and mentions that it really is beta, not like gmail.

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  11. AnonymousSeptember 6, 2008 at 6:12 PM

    or, you know, buy some more RAM. That fixes lots of stuff.

    Jason

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