That is a scary security risk.

What is to stop malware from insert records into the DNS for Russian banks etc? File system escalations are bad enough and at least Chrome and IE do not have any filesystem access and can only write to %appdata.

But Firefox nope. I will make sure not to use it even if it does support threading like its competitors starting to do last decade.

IE 6 was the better browser sadly. If you can believe that which I know in 2014 that is hard.

Ask any older webmaster from that time frame?

W3C was something a committee did which was academic. Only Netscape and MS specific CSS and HTML mattered and websites needed to include specific workarounds for one or the other etc. Man, people forget how dark the web was 10 years ago.

The fact the majority of non Chinese and business users use Firefox and Chrome today show bundling had nothing to do with IE's rise. It came because Netscape died at 4.7 and become very stale FAST while we like to forgot about NS 5+ as they made IE 6 look less buggy in comparison and no one really used those. I refused and kept NS 4.7 for many many users until 2002 when I gave up.

You're an idiot as standard users still have access to threads, processes, and the file system. This means you can attach a rogue process or malware to an admin one which happens to run as a service. It can then be executed with full admin privileges.

Because it is!

No it is not multithreaded. Don't believe me? Hit control alt delete? Firefox uses 400 megs of ram and has high cpu spikes while 5 of my out of date cpu just sit there. One bad site ruins the rest of the 20+ tabs while javascript and everything else pegs just one core where a single bad script can take down the freaking browser.

Sounds like Windows 3.11 and MacOS classic all over!

It is snappier yes but only if you do not run more than a tab or two. It is time to move on as it is obsolete at this stage and is the new IE 6 of this decade. Stale, obsolete, and insecure.

Firefox while it does work is not the best and it pains me to type this. Chrome works better on my older cpu with mulitcores. Maybe on a shiny new icore3 Firefox might seem snappier on lightloads?

But the architecture is dated, insecure, and can not handle modern gpus and multi core cpus with modern security of per tab processes like IE and Chrome had since freaking 2009.

Shoot even the recent IPhones and Galaxy phones have 4 core systems. It is 2014.

I had trouble with youtube playing music as soon as you use flashblock or adblock. No issue at all with other browsers.

FYI this is after I disabled it for the FREAKING SITE. It seems unless they are uninstalled no music or videos can be displayed

I left firefox after 4.0 debuncle. Yes it was the first release to really support HTML 5 but it was freaking HORRIBLE. Bad UI, sloooow, and on older hardware it was unusable. IE 9 won rewards on tomshardware.com which was released march 2011. I held my nose and gave it a try. It supported hardware acceleration, html5 (I admit it was more limited at the time), and was great on my 6 core system as it has per process tab. Since 2001 it ran circles on gecko web engines??!

Many slashdotters said ewww no thanks based on IE 6 memories.

I then played with Chrome. Yes it is spyware somewhat but it too has important features and has less hardware acceleration but it is more secure and frankly a much better browser than Firefox.

My father got hacked with Firefox. It is a shitty browser with no lowrights mode. It is frome the XP era and has no concept of %appdate and uses the filesystem and has access rights to some processes and threads. Bad security wise but that is what XP era software did.

Chrome and IE 9+ have separate code bases for this with XP vs Windows 7 and greater with sandbox support. Many here use Comodo Dragon which is based off of Chrome but has no privacy issues. However, be warned it based off the previous version of Chromium with some security holes.

Switch my friend!

Until Firefox goes to a processing model and supports lowrights mode I will not go back. This may change hopefully as Firefox is improving with performance and ram requirements since 2011 but on a 6 core system it is stupid not to multitask!

Both Chrome and IE (yes slashdotters I did say IE) support lowrights mode.

This means it has no access to the file system at all, no access to processes or threads and %appdata is its prison ... assuming you are on Windows 7 or greater on Windows. XP users will get hacked regardless of browser because the OS does not support kernel level sandboxing.

I left Firefox for IE 9 in 2011 after it won rewards on tomshardware.com. Then switched to Chrome. Firefox like Netscape before it is a sad shell of its former self. I do admit the later firefox releases are much more lenient on ram usage and have improved drastically.

But I have an older Phenom II x6. Nice 6 core with virtualization support for VMWare .. but it is 2.6 ghz and is showing its age at only 2.6 ghz. My machine needs multi processing/threading apps to run close to modern and they provide greater security. One tab does not interfere with another and can be assigned for each core.

To prevent my fan from going high and causing high usage both IE 10+ and Chrome utilize my system fine and still display pages as fast as those reading this on an icore5 or later. But Firefox puts +20 tabs on one cpu with no lowrights mode and as you can image when firebug is on it slows down all the tabs and it is a security risk.

Like netscape it was the lack of funding that killed it agaisn't IE 6 onslaught. I wonder if the same is true? I used Netscape 4.7 before succumbing to IE 6 and then Firefox 1.5 to IE 9 and later Chrome today.

That's completely correct, sir. The heavens can no longer discriminate against people who have preexisting sins. See heaven.gov to see whether you qualify for a plan that has a maximum deductible of 5000 years in purgatory before you are 100% guaranteed entrance into heaven.

In Heaven you will sit around passing a bong back and forth with God until the end of time, with occasional teeth cleanings. Gold and Platinum plans are available that include options for 72 virgins, or for your own planet to rule over, or for the next in a series of afterlives as an elephant, then as a tapeworm, then as Ted Nugent, then as a cricket, and on and on until you achieve Enlightenment with an endless supply of meth and the memory of your life as Ted Nugent to serve as a guide.

If you like your particular religion, you can keep it. (Of course that's assuming that people wouldn't tolerate a religion where their God sucks donkey balls anyway- which it turns out, is false.)

Well that's the whole point- we obviously can't rely on God to fix the situation on his own behalf. He has his own interests, and would obviously like to discriminate against atheists and heretics, and keep them from entering heaven. After all hey arrive confused and with awkward questions for Him- especially assholes like Stephen Hawking who will instantly start quizzing Him about quantum gravity. He sees it as a waste of His endless time. That's why we needed to make it a law, with a mandate on God to allow all individuals into heaven. Even guys with more money than God now have to face the fact that this is working. So folks, just remember to check out heaven.gov or go to Hell.

If you approach a gas station in New Jersey and the guy standing next to the pump is 300 lbs overweight, be careful- it could be an ex-governor. Make sure to pull in slowly, give him some clearance, and fill up with 93. He may give you a strange piece of metal as a "gift". If it doesn't enter your skull at high velocity, take it (WTC steel, baby!). Then hand him a nice tip. Otherwise you might have to put the gas cap back on yourself a few blocks up the road- i.e. "self-service".

You can't be serious, making an insinuation like that on a good man.

Governor Christie is just concerned about the changes in traffic patterns that would be triggered by allowing electric cars to enter the state's vehicle markets unimpeded. Christie has a vision for the future of New Jersey and it is deeply important to him that municipal leaders across the state share his enthusiasm and goals. Enforcement along these lines would be impeded. Specifically, if the governor were to block off lanes to a bridge within a mayor's district, and everyone was driving electric cars, the smog wouldn't be as good for intimidating or disciplining the mayor. Clearly the traffic issues need more study.

The problem with the English is that they feel the need to tell you the whole history of the East India company just to get a nice hot cup of not-entirely-quite-unlike tea.

The satcom device does not have to have been on the aircraft.

A "hostile takeover" merely means that non-owners (the management) are opposed to the owners (shareholders) choosing to sell.

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