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Comment on Firefox 3 RC2 Released by Mr Pest Control London

Mr Pest Control London — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 17:02:06 +0000

Bookmarked for future reference

Comment on Around the Browsersphere #15 by Bernie Zimmermann

Bernie Zimmermann — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 17:26:19 +0000

Thanks for the info, Paul. If you work out other arrangements with Microsoft, let me know and I’ll post an update here.

Comment on Around the Browsersphere #15 by Paul Scarpa

Paul Scarpa — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 23:08:30 +0000

Thanks for supporting Spry Hive’s talk on “the next generation Web browser.” We didn’t manage to secure the votes to present, but we are talking to Microsoft about other options for doing so. Track us @spryhive for the DL on our upcoming beta.

Comment on Google Chrome Ad Spotted in England by Bernie Zimmermann

Bernie Zimmermann — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 14:51:30 +0000

Here’s another ad, this time from a newspaper: http://twitpic.com/xn98n

Comment on Firefox 3.6 RC1 Released by pd

pd — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 23:19:45 +0000

until the improve the boot time on Windows, further improve the memory management *and* get every tab running in a separate process (not just plugins) then Firefox will not have advanced Adding more support for all sorts of new web author trickery is great but useless until IE supports it.

Comment on emoko by pd

pd — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 23:16:24 +0000

interesting concept but can’t see it taking off in that form. So the ’social 2.0′ addicted people can browse sites with crappy avatars looking at the same stuff. Ermmm, what happens when two people (avatars) want to actually ‘touch’ a common site at once? Someone needs to take control and then the experience is hardly ’social’ but more dictatorial.

Comment on Firefox 3.6 RC1 Coming Very Soon by Browsersphere: Firefox 3.6 RC1 Released

Browsersphere: Firefox 3.6 RC1 Released — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 19:16:00 +0000

[...] promised, Firefox 3.6 RC1 was released yesterday. Despite my warnings against downloading the candidate of [...]

Comment on Firefox 3.6 RC1 Coming Very Soon by Bernie Zimmermann

Bernie Zimmermann — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 18:57:33 +0000

Thanks for the link, Chrom. And sorry about the mix-up with the browser identification plug-in. Unfortunately, I don’t have any control over it, as it was developed by a third party.

Comment on Google Chrome Ad Spotted in England by jr

jr — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 19:13:39 +0000

I ran across this photo yesterday http://twitpic.com/wcbee

Comment on Around the Browsersphere #15 by Chrom

Chrom — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 18:04:04 +0000

Seen this yet?
http://vocamus.net/dave/?p=955

Comment on Firefox 3.6 RC1 Coming Very Soon by Chrom

Chrom — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 18:01:18 +0000

Using Safari 532.6 on Mac OS X

No… this is my Chromium 4.0.266.0 window on Linux.

Comment on Firefox 3.6 RC1 Coming Very Soon by Chrom

Chrom — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 17:59:37 +0000

There’s a ton of worthwhile things coming in 3.6.
https://developer.mozilla.org/En/Firefox_3.6_for_developers

Comment on Around the Browsersphere #15 by Bernie Zimmermann

Bernie Zimmermann — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 17:24:57 +0000

Thanks for the additional information, Mimas. I’ve seen quite a few people linking to that post, so it’s a shame the information is misleading.

Comment on Around the Browsersphere #15 by Mimas

Mimas — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 14:36:15 +0000

The link “Initial tests show that forthcoming multi-processor support in Firefox leads to a 3x speedup in JavaScript performance, but even that is still 50% slower than Google Chrome’s performance using the same test.”

is bullshit. Electrolysis doesn’t lead (in its current form) to any bettering in the Sunspider test. The reporter compares to Fx 3.5 and not to Fx 3.6. As he very likely use a Fx 3.5 on a 64-bit OS, JIT wasn’t available on Fx 3.5, but is on its Electrolysis build, hence the bettering he sees.

Minefield 3.7 is currently about 5% quicker on Sunspider than Fx 3.6 which itself is 10% quicker than Fx 3.5. But Fx 3.6 supports JIT for Intel x64, which wasn’t the case on Fx 3.5. On such a build you see the same bettering as Fx 3.0 -> Fx 3.5 showed for other processors.

Comment on Twitter Watch #3 by Browsersphere: Around the Browsersphere #15

Browsersphere: Around the Browsersphere #15 — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 06:25:50 +0000

[...] Iron Browser, which was mentioned here last month, has been reviewed, along with screenshots, over at [...]

Comment on Firefox 3.6 RC1 Coming Very Soon by pd

pd — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 10:44:05 +0000

A candidate for a release candidate? FFS! Just release the mega delayed thing. There’s nothing of interest in it anyway. Move on to doing something worthwhile Mozilla! Stop dragging your arse, IE style.

Comment on Around the Browsersphere #14 by Bernie Zimmermann

Bernie Zimmermann — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 16:39:03 +0000

No problem. Thanks for dropping by and for taking the time to comment!

Comment on Around the Browsersphere #14 by Pallab

Pallab — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 13:44:46 +0000

Thanks for the linkback. I love following latest browser developments. You have a really nice blog. Watch out Favbrowser

Comment on Microsoft to Offer Browser Ballot Screen in Europe by Browsersphere: Around the Browsersphere #14

Browsersphere: Around the Browsersphere #14 — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 07:44:38 +0000

[...] that Avant has been listed as one of the browsers to appear on Microsoft’s browser ballot screen, they need translation [...]

Comment on A Quick Look at Fennec on Windows by Browsersphere: Around the Browsersphere #14

Browsersphere: Around the Browsersphere #14 — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 07:43:29 +0000

[...] RC1 build of Fennec, the mobile version of Firefox covered here recently, was released [...]