On Sat, Jul 27, 2013, John wrote: > On 7/27/2013 12:01 AM, Aahz Maruch wrote: >>On Sun, Jul 14, 2013, John wrote: >>> >>>I finally gave in to the badgering & installed the latest version of >>>Firefox. Got rid of the nag tab, but it ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE slower >>>to load anything than the previous version I was using. >> >>One order of magnitude would be ten times slower. "Orders" plural means >>at least two orders of magnitude or more than a hundred times slower. >>Unless you're being figurative, there's something seriously wrong with >>your computer that you need to diagnose. (Firefox has been roughly >>speed-stable for me since 2.0, maybe even a bit faster over time, but >>it's hard to separate out varying network effects.) > > I *do* understand exactly what "ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE" means. I chose > those words deliberately and with malice aforethought ... > > There's nothing wrong with the computer, it's just old. I was using the > older version of Firefox because I didn't want all the added overhead > processing that comes with feature creep in the newer version.
You still haven't answered the implied question: are you being literal or figurative? The only way you could be literally accurate is if there is something wrong, there's just no way for an upgraded Firefox to be a hundred times slower otherwise. (I don't care how old your computer is, that's essentially irrelevant.) -- Hugs and backrubs -- I break Rule 6 http://rule6.info/ <*> <*> <*> "I don't like country music, but I don't mean to denigrate those who do. And for the people who like country music, denigrate means 'put down'." --Bob Newhart -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
