and look under the hood.
We'll be making this up as we go along[2], so bring your laptop and
join the discovery.Free copy of Google Chrome to anyone who
attends.
If that can't fill two hours, we'll check out the latest incarnation
of the Opera[3] web browser, too.
[1] http://www.google.com
On 03/19/2010 11:41 AM, Benjamin Scott wrote:
Chrome is*fast*, I will give it that.
And there are some benchmarks showing a toss-up among certain browser
functions, but the key is that Firefox's entire UI is rendered in a
single thread, which makes for awful pauses on the fastest of machines
On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 11:23 AM, Bill McGonigle b...@bfccomputing.com wrote:
... the key is that Firefox's entire UI is rendered in a single
thread, which makes for awful pauses on the fastest of machines (Thunderbird
can suffer similarly).
I find it's not so much the UI proper as
On Sat, 2010-03-20 at 19:44 -0400, Jon 'maddog' Hall wrote:
If I wanted your website to make noise, I would have licked my finger
and rubbed it across the glass on my monitor. (Unknown)
I would hate to watch YouTube with Unknown.
At least with YouTube, the soundtrack doesn't start until you
On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 2:19 PM, Lloyd Kvam pyt...@venix.com wrote:
I do not want to start blasting out a soundtrack just
because some web designer got carried away.
If I wanted your website to make noise, I would have licked my finger
and rubbed it across the glass on my monitor. (Unknown)
On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 1:39 PM, Benjamin Scott dragonh...@gmail.com wrote:
... kill it. Your Flash will go away, but happiness will return.
When you kill the Flash process in Chrome, do you loose the entire
page the Flash object was embedded in, or do you loose *all* Flash
objects on all
Someone pointed out to me that Google Chrome has a beta release
for Linux now. (What *isn't* beta at Google?) I thought it would be
good to stimulate some discussion here.
They offer .rpm and .deb packages. The .deb installed easily on my
Debian 5.0 box. You can download from
http
Chrome is also the only browser I know of that is planning on supporting
both H.264/Mp4 and Theora/Vorbis as codecs.
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I've been using adblock under Chrome for a couple months now ... seems
to work about as well as the Firefox one for me. *shrug*
That being said, it's all coming together... slowly. For example, it's
only been six months or so that Chrome's been running Flash -- at least in
part because of
On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 12:23 PM, Ken D'Ambrosio k...@jots.org wrote:
I've been using adblock under Chrome for a couple months now ... seems
to work about as well as the Firefox one for me. *shrug*
So, yeah, it doesn't have all the plugins or polish that FF does, but I
almost *never*
On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 11:53 AM, Cole Tuininga co...@code-energy.com wrote:
Things like NoScript, ad blockers, and cookie controls are also
rather meager right now.
I've been using adblock under Chrome for a couple months now ... seems
to work about as well as the Firefox one for me.
On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 12:23 PM, Ken D'Ambrosio k...@jots.org wrote:
I still find that Flash dies horribly from
time to time -- if you find a task exe hogging 100% CPU ...
Flash does that on every browser/platform I've tried it on.
... kill it. Your Flash will go away, but happiness will
On 03/19/2010 01:31 PM, Benjamin Scott wrote:
On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 11:52 AM, Jon 'maddog' Hallmad...@li.org wrote:
Chrome is also the only browser I know of that is planning on supporting
both H.264/Mp4 and Theora/Vorbis as codecs.
Firefox 3.6 claims to support the latter (but
On Fri, 2010-03-19 at 13:36 -0400, Benjamin Scott wrote:
Reportedly, neither are easily possible with Chrome right now. And
also reportedly, the ad blocking on Chrome is inferior to what's
possible on Firefox. Chome is limited to CSS-based mechanisms, so
instead of blocking the ads, they
Firefox 3.6 claims to support the latter (but not both). I
haven't really tried it.
Isn't MP4 patent encumbered?
Yes, not only is MP4 patent encumbered, but if you use the video streams
produced by H.264/MP4 for commercial purposes you have to pay a
royalty for those streams on a per
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