Milliseconds, (maybe not so much nanoseconds) DO matter inside an animation loop.

Oh, unless you were happy with Flash?

While slashdot mocks the computer industry marketing for describing computers using a single metric, you seem to be quite happy with that when it comes to browser performance.

An example: Chrome (v8 engine) has this reputation for amazing speed, but IE9 absolutely grinds Chrome into the dust when it comes to simply repositioning elements on screen; something which today's web apps spend a lot of their time doing. You can feel it too if you know what you're looking for. I don't follow IEs development as closely as Chrome or Firefox, but IE must be hardware accelerating these translations.

I fully expect Google to focus on performance cases which help their specific apps. Again, a conflict of interest, akin to Microsoft pre-caching masses of junk, so that Office can appear to start up much faster than the competition.

The majority of the Mozilla foundation's funding comes from a search royalties contract, currently with Google.
Problem?

Can someone explain why this is funny?
I can see how it could be funny in a different context, but here it's like the punchline for the wrong joke.

No they won't. There simply isn't enough selection pressure to make that happen. noscript users are this tiny insignificant blip concealed in the statistical noise of web traffic.

Secondly, you're right. All the superficial problems (which I can almost never reproduce anyway) with firefox are nothing compared to having a browser I can trust, from an organization that I'm ideologically aligned with.
Google building a web browser is a conflict of interests; though I'm still glad they did for browser war / political reasons.

The rate feels slower today than when I was a kid.
And why did the previous generations always get the cool people. What happened to all the von Neumanns, Turings, and Freeman Dysons?

No, but it's reached the point where automated cars are better than the average human driver. A low bar to pass.

This effect is called Gresham's law.

Let's not say "some government" when it's always the US government.

Please mark .com as depreciated.

News@11

At your service.

Is that all your want?
Save time and watch Maburaho. The nerd kid has magic and gets a harem.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hpWq_zGprAU

Corruption

This question is so misguided, and will only end in hypocrisy.
If it really bothers the poster that much, simply go without the toy.

Words have meaning, and meaning in particular contexts.
Corporate doublespeak attempts to corrupt that meaning, in this case by intentional reversal; applying a word to it's diametric opposite.

Most people here quite clearly understand that.