https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=20922
--- Comment #8 from Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton <l...@lkcl.net> 2009-10-01 18:07:41 UTC --- (In reply to comment #2) > then I don't have a slow browser to test on. Speaking of slow browsers: if > possible, I recommend you upgrade Firefox to version 3.5, which has a /much/ > faster JavaScript engine. i run firefox 2 and also i run IE6 running under wine (ies4linux) precisely _because_ they are slower, and result in being able to detect these kinds of race conditions. as the lead developer of http://pyjs.org i have access to about eight to ten different kinds of web browsers. there was a race condition bug i managed to reproduce in XFree86 in 2000 precisely because i had a slower computer running far more tasks than it was capable of handling. no other developers could repro the bug until i advised them to deliberately put the load on the (much more powerful) test machine through the roof. once that had been done it took under 2 seconds to repro the bug. so i strongly urge you to consider keeping the older browsers around, and use them for your day-to-day development. you'll end up writing software that, when it runs on the faster browsers, runs at _blinding_ speed. and, when people use embedded systems and/or older hardware in emerging countries, it'll still be damn quick. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are the assignee for the bug. You are on the CC list for the bug. _______________________________________________ Wikibugs-l mailing list Wikibugs-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikibugs-l
