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Helsinki Firefox 2.0 party

Sunday, October 29th, 2006

Yesterday I’ve attended the Firefox 2.0 party in Helsinki.

Chatting with Romaxa:

Firefox 2.0 party

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JavaScript performance test results

Tuesday, September 5th, 2006

Platform:

  • Hardware: IBM ThinkPad T41, Intel Pentium M 1.59 GHz, 512M of RAM
  • OS: MS Windows XP SP2

Test:

Browsers:

  • MS Internet Explorer 7, RC, version 7.0.5700.6
  • Firefox-Minefield, version 3.0a1, Mozilla 1.9a1, Gecko/2006090404
  • Flock, version 0.7.4.1, Mozilla 1.8.0.5, Gecko/20060731, Firefox/1.5.0.5
  • Opera 9.01
  • Swift 0.1, WebKit for WIN32

Results:

  1. Opera 9 - 668ms
  2. Swift 0.1 - 781ms
  3. MS IE 7 - 958ms
  4. FF 3.0 - 1386ms
  5. Flock 0.7 - 2379ms
  • Tests were made several times for every browser but the average result is about the one above.

Resume:

  • Opera 9 is a winner.
  • Mozilla 1.8-1.9 is a looser.

Browser notes:

  • Flock browser is based on Firefox, that based on Mozilla.
  • Every Mozilla based browser info contains also correspondent Mozilla and Gecko versions.
  • Swift is a first WebKit based browser for MS Windows.

Update 2006.09.05 16:27:

I’ve made a bug report for Mozilla regarding this issue: Bug # 351406

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Over complicated browsing

Friday, September 1st, 2006

There is one Firefox extension that can convert it into a “semantic web browser”: Piggy Bank.

It’s about 5.5 MB and also requires Java. It provides another “view” to a web page by gathering some statistics and reformatting the page layout accordingly.

Didn’t quite get what is a purpose of all this “enhancements” but, nevertheless, I’m sure it’s a trend.

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Troubles with blog posting

Wednesday, August 30th, 2006

It is not actually a trivial thing to make a blog post. I’ve spend about 25 minutes trying to write all the stuff about WordPress, spell checker in Firefox 2.0 Beta and so on. And what is a result? Firefox crashed and destroyed all my data with nice looking lists, links and a custom HTML editing. I gave up. I went for Windows Live Writer and now I’m more or less happy with this tool.

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