[GLLUG] What Intel Giveth, Microsoft Taketh Away

Shawn idealso00 at gmail.com
Sun Nov 18 15:57:29 EST 2007


I tried it on windows not stable and dose not support any extentions
at all 

On Sun, 18 Nov 2007 12:23:49 -0500 "Charles Ulrich"
<charles at bityard.net> wrote:

> I'm trying out a Firefox 3.0 alpha and it's actually quite good. It's
> still not lightweight by any measure, but it does render pages a LOT
> faster. Large tables which would have been impossible to view in
> Firefox 2 are at least viewable now. Pretty stable too, it hasn't
> crashed or choked on a page yet after 3 weeks of daily use.
> 
> I imagine they're going to add some features that will change this
> before it hits beta. :(
> 
> Charles
> 
> On Nov 17, 2007 12:21 PM, Adam McDougall <mcdouga9 at egr.msu.edu> wrote:
> > So does firefox :P
> >
> >
> > On Sat, Nov 17, 2007 at 08:24:02AM -0500, Michael Rudas wrote:
> >
> >   LOL
> >
> >   I mention this kind of thing on a Linux list because most peoples'
> >   perceptions of what a computer IS are so heavily influence by
> >   Microsoft software, so it impacts us all -- and MS has become an
> >   anchor, dragging all computer users to the briny depths of
> > Trojans, spyware, and wasted computer power...
> >
> >   "Case in point: Microsoft Office 2007 which, when deployed on
> > Windows Vista, consumes over 12x as much memory and nearly 3x as
> > much processing power as the version that graced PCs just 7 short
> > years ago (Office 2000)."
> >   <http://exo-blog.blogspot.com/2007/09/what-intel-giveth-microsoft-taketh-away.html>
> >
> >   ~~ Mikey
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