Archive for the tag 'Firefox'

Dec 19 2008

GNOME Audio Player Shootout Revisited

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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…

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Aug 24 2008

Javascript performance is about to get turbo-charged

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Firefox

Safari

I personally think the friendly rivalry between the open-source Webkit engine (which powers Safari, among other things) and Mozilla (the Gecko engine, actually) is one of the best things to happen to browser development in years. The constant one-upsmanship can only lead…

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Jun 20 2008

Desktop Linux revisited

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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…

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Mar 23 2008

Javascript engines in 32-bit and 64-bit browsers

I recently performed some cursory Javascript benchmarks with the new version of Firefox and Safari; curious about performance, I decided to do some testing of 32-bit browsers against their 64-bit counterparts. On Windows Vista x64, the only two browsers so available…

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Mar 19 2008

Firefox 3.0b4 vs. 2.0.0.12 Javascript benchmark

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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…

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Jan 15 2008

SunSpider

Last December, I read Jeff Atwood’s write-up about SunSpider, a new Javascript benchmark created by the makers of WebKit/KHTML.

The world of Javascript is an interesting one right now; it seems like most major browsers are on the eve of a…

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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.…

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Apr 20 2007

Various software releases

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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…

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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…

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