I'm pretty sure relativity doesn't work that way.

Of course it's not erased by a factory reset; the images are saved on the external memory card (microsd)

I'd be really concerned if it WERE erased

Have you ever considered using a new profile and examining which plugins you use? Because a clean install of FF3.6 certainly won't do that.

Pretty much every single factor you mentioned about Opera is also true of Firefox. You'd need to "optimize" Firefox as well if you decide to run a bench against an "optimized" Opera.

Unfortunately, the way Chrome is designed doesn't yet allow for the adblocking the way it's done in Firefox. If there were a malicious ad, it's still rendered then removed from view with the Chrome solution for instance.

Not to mention the capability to use the extension Tree Style Tabs. This alone would keep me on Firefox let alone how it also has things like Noscript (while Opera has per site javascript settings, it's not even close to the finegrain control Noscript provides in a simple manner).

I'm curious as to which version you're using, whether you used a clean profile, and which plugins you're using.

My own testing of Firefox doesn't ever show the massive memory leaks often claimed.

Interestingly enough, my resolution changing screen in the win7 PUBLIC beta doesn't look like that: http://img134.imageshack.us/img134/6215/resolution7ak4.png


With that said, Microsoft has somehow made the new Windows Explorer even more annoying.

Haha. Windows XP's minimum requirement is 64MB of RAM. Try running XP on that and you'll see the same "molasses" issue.

The release candidates ran fairly well. But the betas (especially Beta 1) didn't fair as well.

The theory is that only as much as needed is removed. You start with the ones that are hardest to perceive and start to reduce those first before moving to the stuff that's easier to hear.

The obvious consequence of this is that when you remove too much you lose what's perceptible and the ultimate end would be just the plain sine-wave as you say. Fortunately for many sorts of sound, you have enough bandwidth at 128kbps to handle the sound reasonably. It is still insufficient for a great deal of other sounds though.

Overtones that don't happen with music and sound that we listen to and can hear. So what's your point? That a sound that people can't hear isn't encoded?

Oh no, all the pitches about 22KHz isn't encoded! I'm losing INFINITE information here. What a bloody useless codec.