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Facebook, Google, Bing, Yahoo To Enable IPv6 On Ju

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes "Facebook, Google, Microsoft Bing, and Yahoo are four of 15 companies committed to supporting IPv6 by June 6, 2012. The others include Cisco, D-Link, Akamai, Limelight, and seven ISPs. The launch follows last year’s successful industry-wide test of IPv6 on June 8, 2011, which demonstrated how IPv6 is the best solution to keeping devices communicating and ensuring people stay connected online as the Internet continues to grow."
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World IPv6 Launch set for June 6->

Submitted by alphadogg
alphadogg writes "Several of the world's largest ISPs and websites have committed to permanently enabling IPv6 — the next-generation Internet Protocol — on their products and services starting June 6, 2012. AT&T, Comcast and Time Warner Cable were among seven global ISPs that have committed to this deadline, along with some of the world's most popular websites including Facebook, Google, Yahoo and Microsoft Bing. These companies announced that they are meeting this deadline as participants of an event dubbed World IPv6 Launch, which is being organized by the Internet Society."
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Comment: Re:Slow! (Score 1) 554

by avij (#35576452) Attached to: Firefox 4 Released!
Yes, I just noticed that disabling hardware acceleration helped significantly. I picked a random Slashdot news article and scrolled from top to bottom, keeping the down arrow pressed down. With hardware "acceleration" enabled, it took 22 seconds. Without it, 9 seconds. A very unscientific benchmark for sure, but it reflects the impression I got. Without the hardware acceleration the speed seems to be about the same as with older FF3.

After getting disappointed by FF4, I installed Chrome. It seems even a bit snappier than any of the FF versions I've used.

I'm using a Nokia Booklet 3G laptop with Win7. Granted, it's not a particularly fast computer, but it has been sufficient for my web browsing needs with FF3. My main gripe with FF4 is that if the browser is indeed slower with hardware acceleration enabled, FF4 shouldn't enable it by default. Yes, technically enabled folks can tweak the settings to make the browser faster, but tweaking the settings SHOULDN'T be necessary for the average user.

The public is an old woman. Let her maunder and mumble. -- Thomas Carlyle