[GLLUG] What Intel Giveth, Microsoft Taketh Away

[Charles Ulrich]

Maybe they don't have all of the Windows stuff squared away yet. Or
perhaps they're using Windows as the test bed for the new shiny stuff
that they plan to support on all platforms. Many of the Firefox
extensions that I use work fine on 3 so far.

Charles

On Nov 18, 2007 3:57 PM, Shawn <idealso00 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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