Unless you haven't used Firefox for a while, it's been noticeably quicker to load than Chrome for some while now. Chrome invariably uses more RAM ,takes longer to start up and load pages although it has faster javascript and is unlikely to "stutter" because it's process-per-tab.


Something of a trade-off in any case.

Well, that depends on whether it's a "first generation" star that began as just hydrogen or a second,third,fourth,etc. "generation" star that uses the gas from a previous star's supernova gas cloud thus incorporating some of the elements created during said supernova.

The Sun is still mostly hydrogen and helium but there are trrace amounts of other elements: http://csep10.phys.utk.edu/astr162/lect/sun/composition.html

Since the Earth has elements that aren't hydrogen and helium, we know our Sun isn't a "first generation".

Regular star fuel is hydrogen (and helium very late) which undergoes fusion.

When this fuel is exhausted, the star collapses under its own gravity. This can be extremely sudden (even in human terms).

The collapse can only go so far before the star is compressed to its limit. Where this limit is depends on how massive the star is. Unless the star is massive enough to crush right into a black hole, the collapse will also stop suddenly and "bounce back" as the core instantly reheats from the compression. This is the supernova explosion as all the stuff that normally wouldn't fuse goes and fuses anyway (this is where elements past iron come from).

Modern Plasmas last 100,000 hours just like LEDs (http://shop.panasonic.com/shop/model/TC-P65ST60)

Are the numbers from this article just pulled out of a hat?

Did you really read the book or are you just one those guys who rip on "overhyped" books just because?

In the story, the US Navy had detected and followed the Red October from Iceland on.

Congratulations, you've taken an extremely shallow knowledge of relativistic mass and assumed it's actually relevant.

Because it turns out you don't need mass to be affected by gravity.


A smart guy called Einstein did a lot of explaining about this.

And so we replace it with Chrome who updates even more quickly?

That chapter only pointed out that the system worked great until it ran out of missiles. The "not programmed to think about it" part was just flavor text.

Might just be staggered release then.


The update was just released and it's entirely reasonable it could stagger you a couple days even before auto-downloading.

It already happened. Check your settings to see if it's turned on.

This. My Dell U2410 demands this poll be redone!

I know right? If only there were hypothetical sites with names like Bing or Duckduckgo or Yahoo I could use to search out information so I didn't have to only use Google!