Testing a Pre-Release, Parallel Firefox 278
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from the use-what-ya-got dept.
Firefox, in its official version, still lacks support for multi-threading (running on different processors), though Chrome and Internet Explorer 8 both have this feature. A Firefox project called Electrolysis is underway to close this gap. A blog author tested a pre-release version of Firefox that loads different tabs in parallel, and he chronicles his findings, including a huge speedup in Javascript vs. Firefox version 3.5 (though the pre-release still lags Chrome in many of the tests).
Re:Tabbed processes would be better (Score:3, Funny)
Stop surfing porn at work then.
Re:Good thing (Score:3, Funny)
Other browsers have already caught up to Firefox in speed, features, and standards support.
They're lacking the 'Eat your Memory' feature.
Re:Good thing (Score:3, Funny)
Right! I mean, apart from cross platform stability and the add-ons and the themes and the ability to customize everything and the adblock, what have the Firefoxes ever done for us, eh? Splitters!
Re:A true breakthrough for faggots (Score:2, Funny)
Re:FireFox is great, but... (Score:3, Funny)
Yup, I managed to convince my manager that with the rollout of windows 7 to all our new PCs (we sell PCs) that 64bit should be the norm.
So we can now boast "computers with 4GB of ram" and point out to the customer that our machines (and none of our competitors nearby) can use all of it AND the nice big 1GB vid card they just plonked into it :)
Of course there's a few problems, one person just asked me why his program he has been using since windows 3.1 doesn't work...