It’s been close to two years since I wrote GNOME Audio Player Shootout, a visual and textual comparison of some the best available audio players for the GNOME desktop.
As is usually the case in the world of free software, a…
Archive for the tag 'Firefox'
Aug 24 2008
Javascript performance is about to get turbo-charged
Jun 20 2008
Desktop Linux revisited
About 2 years ago I wrote a piece called Five things that Desktop Linux really needs, attempting to air out my five biggest grievances with Desktop Linux. If you follow FOSS news, every year is heralded as “The Year of…
Mar 23 2008
Javascript engines in 32-bit and 64-bit browsers
Mar 19 2008
Firefox 3.0b4 vs. 2.0.0.12 Javascript benchmark
Continuing the tradition of my previous post about Safari, I thought I would revisit Firefox’s performance on the SunSpider benchmark.
Clearly, Firefox has also made drastic strides in its Javascript engine, which is an entirely new piece donated by Adobe (and…
Jan 15 2008
SunSpider
Nov 13 2007
A Modest Construct v2.0: Hooloovoo
Last week, I finally went live with a new design that I’ve been toying with for this blog. It sort of grew organically out of a few failures that I’d played with on and off for the last few months.…
Apr 20 2007
Various software releases
Since there have been a slew of minor (and just a few major) software releases in the past week, I’ve decided to amalgamate them all into a single post. There are a fair number, so I’ve hidden them beneath the…
Feb 27 2007
Some point releases
- CDrtfe is 1.2.2 beta, fixing fix and overall stability
- Mozilla Firefox is 2.0.0.2, patching a nasty Javascript exploit that was recently disclosed.
- Paint.NET is 3.01, fixing some crash issues and a performance improvement.
- Scribus is 1.3.3.8, with bug fixes and plenty of translation updates.
- Notepad++ is 4.0.2, fixing four…