On Monday, December 4, 2017 at 10:38:35 AM UTC-7, Hugh Aguilar wrote: > > > > On Monday, December 4, 2017 at 7:11:09 AM UTC-7, Gerald wrote: >> >> On Sun, 3 Dec 2017 20:07:45 -0800 (PST), you wrote: >> >> >I'll bet if Mozilla had used Go to write FireFox, rather than invent >> their >> >own language, Google would have done something to stop them. >> >> You are aware that Google helps fund Firefox (through their agreement >> to be the default search engine)? >> > > I was not aware of that. > > I only recently started using FireFox. Previously I had used Google Chrome. > My new computer crashed after I installed Chrome and I was suspicious that > Chrome caused this. > Also, my old computer became very slow and I was suspicious of Chrome > being the cause of this. > Because of these reasons, I switched to FireFox. >
FireFox actually uses Yahoo --- not Google --- so if Google did make a donation to Mozilla, they got nothing in return. You're not supposed to expect something in return when you make a donation to a non-profit --- donations are not supposed to be a business deal. I'm having problems with my new computer. It became so slow that it took 20 minutes just to boot up. I killed the Microsoft Edge browser and left only FireFox running, and it seems to be working better. I don't know if this means Chrome or Edge are necessarily at fault. Maybe browsers just use a lot of memory and so only one should be used at a time. It seems depressing to me that we now have 64-bit dual-core computers available for less than a week's wages, but our software is so bad that my old Commodore-64 is still faster (for simple things like text editing that it could do). Anyway, all of this has gone way off-topic. Windows has always sucked, and it will continue to suck forever --- there is not much more to say on the subject. I will look into those Go chess programs that were mentioned earlier. I still don't know much about the Alpha-Beta algorithm, so if anybody has any further information on that subject I would be interested in reading this. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "golang-nuts" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to golang-nuts+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
