14277598 comment Comment Re:Too little, too late... (Score 1) 222 by Cap'n Refsmmat on Wednesday July 14, 2010 @12:44PM (#32902734) Attached to: Mozilla's New JavaScript Engine Coming September 1 Stability problems are getting better every day. http://blog.mozilla.com/metrics/2010/04/08/dramatic-stability-improvements-in-firefox/
14277550 comment Comment Re:Um, is it on? (Score 1) 222 by Cap'n Refsmmat on Wednesday July 14, 2010 @12:43PM (#32902710) Attached to: Mozilla's New JavaScript Engine Coming September 1 No, they haven't. It's not fully optimized and tested yet.
13815046 comment Comment Re:Firefox is the most unstable program in common (Score 1) 366 by Cap'n Refsmmat on Tuesday June 29, 2010 @02:56PM (#32734786) Attached to: Firefox 4.0 Beta Candidate Available It's worth noting that crash rates have been driven down significantly recently. They are indeed addressing the instabilities and tackling the problem like you demand. Pretty graphs and charts (also read the comments from Mozilla devs): http://blog.mozilla.com/metrics/2010/04/08/dramatic-stability-improvements-in-firefox/
13814924 comment Comment Re:more importantly (Score 1) 366 by Cap'n Refsmmat on Tuesday June 29, 2010 @02:49PM (#32734698) Attached to: Firefox 4.0 Beta Candidate Available Firefox also provides tags for bookmarks and live bookmark search (using tags, URL, or title) in the AwesomeBar. There's no excuse.
8856164 comment Comment Re:GPU accelerated Firefox? (Score 1) 284 by Cap'n Refsmmat on Thursday January 21, 2010 @04:55PM (#30851072) Attached to: Mozilla Firefox 3.6 Released This is being investigated, in fact. Work is being done to use Direct2D for hardware acceleration in Vista and 7. https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=527707
6651303 comment Comment Reassuring (Score 2, Interesting) 134 by Cap'n Refsmmat on Tuesday October 27, 2009 @04:47PM (#29888915) Attached to: UK Law Enforcement Is Against "3-Strikes" At least this hints that there isn't a trivial way of breaking RSA, AES, or the other popular systems.
5489803 comment Comment Re:Random number bug (Score 1) 212 by Cap'n Refsmmat on Saturday August 08, 2009 @05:25PM (#28998549) Attached to: Firefox 3.6 Alpha 1 Released Random number generation issue?
5386253 comment Comment Re:Browsers should be written in a modern language (Score 1) 280 by Cap'n Refsmmat on Thursday July 30, 2009 @04:22PM (#28887423) Attached to: Null Character Hack Allows SSL Spoofing The rendering and networking side of Mozilla browsers are most definitely C++. The JavaScript bit is the user interface side.
2709291 comment Comment Re:When the only tool you have is a hammer.... (Score 2, Insightful) 96 by Cap'n Refsmmat on Tuesday April 22, 2008 @12:55AM (#23154872) Attached to: A New Kind of Science Collaboration I think you hit the nail on the head there. Although I think part of the point of collaborative editing is that one individual can't claim all of the results. That's part of the deal.