re: Want to try some incredible software--without installing anything?
Wednesday, December 23, 2009 at 10:44 am
Windows 98 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by gewg_
(4444 messages posted)
dhm wrote:
|Now that winter is here,
|my monitor would flash and flicker and not warm up for half an hour.
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Usually, folks get their increased failure rates when Summer rolls around
and increased ambient temperatures exacerbate overheating problems.
Your stuff just had to be different. 8-)
|[...]new monitor[...]
|Suddenly Firefox 3.x no longer sticks and lags on so many things.
|It works crisply in many operations such as its menus.
|So I've discovered that
|the recent Firefoxes are predicated on the user having [a] fast monitor.
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A lot of the browser speed gains
have been due to concentrated work on the the JavaScript engines.
SpiderMonkey was Netscape's and Mozilla inherited that.
TraceMonkey is the evolution which first shipped with Firefox 3.5.
V8 for the Google Chrome browser[1] has really been spurring competition
as has Webkit's SquirrelFish.
Even M$ has been paying attention and giving it a try,
making improvements to JScript
--which is integrated rather than being a separate entity from Trident.
If you want to try out their brand new JavaScript engine called Carakan,
Opera just released what's being called a "pre-alpha" of 10.5
which is trying to grab the latest speed demon laurels.
[1] Noticed how Google has gotten as bad as M$ at naming stuff?
(Internet Explorer : Windoze Explorer :: Google Chrome browser : Google Chrome OS)
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