Comment Re:Less FF Bloat please (Score 1) 351
Can you define bloat (in the context of Firefox) without pointing at nebulous things such as the amount of RAM the OS has allocated for it?
Can you define bloat (in the context of Firefox) without pointing at nebulous things such as the amount of RAM the OS has allocated for it?
According to http://www.arewefastyet.com/, they're beating Chrome in Sunspider. That, plus their graphically accelerated rendering + compositing makes their Windows builds quite speedy.
Conversely, Mozilla, Opera and Google want to support Theora and WebM, but Apple refuses.
You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.
How about ECMAScript?
Show me where h264 is a requirement in the HTML5 spec.
kthx.
They probably couldn't figure out a way to switch it to "Blow".
What about having a strcmp that compares strings using a randomized series of indexes?
E.g.
compare position 4, then 1, then 3, then 10, etc.
In addition to what the above poster said, they aren't putting all of their eggs in one basket. They've been heavily focused on making sure the entire UX is fast/responsive, not just benchmarks.
Hovering over a datapoint should show which engine is being tested.
So how exactly would you handle drawing within a browser plugin? I've pasted this elsewhere in this thread, but for the sake of showing that it isn't as simple as you and others make it seem: http://www.kaourantin.net/2010/02/core-animation.html
CoreAnimation came out a few months before Adobe released Flash 10 - nowhere near soon enough for 10 to make use of it. 10.1 will.
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