Comment /. tech support (Score 1) 758
Although web browsing may be considered a trivial affair nowadays, a web browser is a complex application (go ahead and read the source code for Firefox). Analizing problems with software takes a scientific approach. If you want to analize the sociological implications of an idiotic posting of an alleged and unspecified
software bug then ./ is an ideal place to post it.
As far as the apparantly large memory footprint that the rendering application (ff) seems to display, I presume it is part of the caching/prefetching capabilities which makes loading pages instantanious. Ever hit the back-button and see how fast a page "re"loads in Firefox? Well if that page was not stored in memory, how fast do you think it would load?
Modern computers in the developed world ship with 1GB of ram or more, and the reason for this is so that modern applications can *use* this memory to increase performance. If you don't like this behavior, you may feel free to use your old 486 with, say, windows for workgroups on it, and dig up a copy of netscape 2.x and install it. Then again you can run Linux from the BIOS chip on your mainboard with a copy lynx web browser, or even CuRL or wget. Then you don't even need to worry about buying memory or a hard drive for your PC! Isn't that nice?
AFAS conspiracy by Micro$oft to build their operating system to break or disable software from other providers, it is a court-proven fact. Anybody ever tried to get netscape from the official nscp FTP site using IE in 1997? that URL was actually blocked in the IE code of the day.
If you've heard the expression "embrace and extend", that means, "overtake and break".
As far as the apparantly large memory footprint that the rendering application (ff) seems to display, I presume it is part of the caching/prefetching capabilities which makes loading pages instantanious. Ever hit the back-button and see how fast a page "re"loads in Firefox? Well if that page was not stored in memory, how fast do you think it would load?
Modern computers in the developed world ship with 1GB of ram or more, and the reason for this is so that modern applications can *use* this memory to increase performance. If you don't like this behavior, you may feel free to use your old 486 with, say, windows for workgroups on it, and dig up a copy of netscape 2.x and install it. Then again you can run Linux from the BIOS chip on your mainboard with a copy lynx web browser, or even CuRL or wget. Then you don't even need to worry about buying memory or a hard drive for your PC! Isn't that nice?
AFAS conspiracy by Micro$oft to build their operating system to break or disable software from other providers, it is a court-proven fact. Anybody ever tried to get netscape from the official nscp FTP site using IE in 1997? that URL was actually blocked in the IE code of the day.
If you've heard the expression "embrace and extend", that means, "overtake and break".
