Mozilla 1.7 Beta Is Faster And Smaller 738
ccady writes "Mozilla 1.7 beta is out. Not too many new features, but "Mozilla 1.7 size and performance have improved dramatically with this release. When compared to Mozilla 1.6, Mozilla 1.7 Beta is 7% faster at startup, is 8% faster at window open time, has 9% faster pageloading times, and is 5% smaller in binary size." I'll be downloading it."
Oh no, there goes Tokyo... (Score:5, Funny)
Mozilla 1.6 (Score:4, Funny)
Slashdot-GO! (Score:1, Funny)
Not if we get there first.
great (Score:3, Funny)
and 10% more (Score:3, Funny)
Compared to IE.... (Score:5, Funny)
Modzilla keeps getting better all the time.
Not fair (Score:2, Funny)
In other news... (Score:4, Funny)
In all seriousness, it's easy to improve figures like this just by removing features.
Dramatically faster?? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:This is why I dropped Netscape (Score:5, Funny)
And in a crash-hole between them, the coyote.
Actually... (Score:0, Funny)
The next service pack of Internet Explorer plans to have 25% longer load times, 120% more crashes, and open 58% more exploits into a Windows system.
Re:Mozillamatic.js (Score:1, Funny)
Re:Yes, it is smaller and better (Score:5, Funny)
Admittedly, I get most of my site's hits from Slashdot, but I find a rather pleasant mix of Gecko, Mozilla, Opera, Apple Webkit, and occasionally someone using IE. Actually, I think Google surfs my site more than anyone. (I did tell "Slurp" to take a flying leap.) Of course it does flop over to nearly 80% IE from time to time, but I've also noticed that IE users are only interested in some file named cmd.exe or root.exe, and I've never offered either of those files from this box. It must be a Microsoft thing...
Personally I'm hooked on using Firefox, but I design my pages to look good in any light. ;-)
Unlisted Speed Change (Score:5, Funny)
After the news is released on Slashdot, it's now 40% slower to download. :D
Re:Yes, it is smaller and better (Score:5, Funny)
Re:I'm using it right now (Score:1, Funny)
Re:Segfaults? (Score:1, Funny)
Re:This is why I dropped Netscape (Score:5, Funny)
And this should serve as a warning to anyone else who thinks about getting stoned and posting here.
Re:Mozilla 1.6 (Score:4, Funny)
Yes [calcgames.org]
No [calcgames.org]
Re:Mozilla 1.6 (Score:5, Funny)
It'll be dominant within months, just wait.
Comment removed (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Yes, it is smaller and better (Score:3, Funny)
Faster, smaller, and has fewer bugs!?
Will these people ever learn? Every version must either leave in the old bugs, or fix them but create more new ones. Bugs in this version are the reason people are going to pay for the next version, hoping they'll be fixed.
And of course performance improvements are a big mistake too. You want to make it slower and slower, so that people will buy new hardware, thereby driving sales of your OS, which is joined at the hip with your browser.
Re:This is why I dropped Netscape (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Who fucking cares (Score:3, Funny)
You, my friend, have obviously not been to the Bandera County Rodeo and Fair [banderarodeo.com]. Absolutely no Mozillas to be found, though there are some nice heifers!
Re:This is why I dropped Netscape (Score:4, Funny)
-fester
Re:In other news... (Score:4, Funny)
I guess that makes it..... (Score:5, Funny)
I guess that makes it.....
29% Better!
-L
Re:Mozilla 1.6 (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Mozilla 1.6 (Score:4, Funny)
Another improvement (Score:1, Funny)
Now with 200% more statistics!
Re:Oh no, there goes Tokyo... (Score:5, Funny)
If you don't understand this joke go listen to some Blue Oyster Cult [lyricsfreak.com]
Re:In other news... (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Yes, it is smaller and better (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Mozilla 1.6 (Score:5, Funny)
I like to play fun games with my ua string, too. One of my favourite tricks
is to claim to be running my browser on an X11 GUI on PC-DOS 3.3, but claiming
MSIE on X11 is fun too (especially, MSIE on an X11 GUI on a Microsoft OS).
Other user-agent jokes I've seen include the following:
* Claim to be running a significantly future version, (e.g., claim MSIE 11.5
or Mozilla/7.0 or use a future Gecko build date, et cetera)
* Claim to be both MSIE and Gecko in the same user-agent string
* List Emacs as the operating system
* List Klingon, Quenya, or Sanskrit as the localization language
* Claim an utterly impossible browser/OS/hardware combo, like iCab on
OpenVMS on SPARC, or, even better, claim a combination that's not only
impossible but also ancient, like NCSA Mosaic on ITS on a PDP8.
* Claim a virtual machine architecture (e.g., the z-machine, glulx,
parrot, jvm,
as your hardware architecture.
* Make wrong and incompitible version claims (e.g., start with Mozilla/2.0
and then give a 2003 Gecko build date or claim to be MSIE 6.0)
* Claim to be running on Hurd, BeOS 6, or some other vaporware.
* "NoBrowserNeeded (My TCP/IP stack is connected directly to my brain.)"
Re:Mozilla 1.6 (Score:4, Funny)
You could make the valid contention that it's "nobodywantstouseitware," however.
Anyway, couldn't you list Emacs as the operating system, the browser, the gui, and the hardware architecture? (I'm sure that must be an extension.)
Re:MNG? (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Mozilla 1.6 (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Mozilla 1.6 (Score:2, Funny)
IE astonishingly bad? Is that like an astonishingly round circle?
Re:This is why I dropped Netscape (Score:3, Funny)
Knowing Wile E. Coyote, I hope not. The very first thing he'd do is try to lurk inside there while he takes his Acme Bloody Huge Roadrunner-Slaying Device out of its infinite-capacity Acme shipping crate. The consequences of this sort of thing, I'm reliably informed by D&D geeks, are bad.
Re:Mozilla 1.6 (Score:3, Funny)
No, of course not. They asked however many doctors they needed to get those 9 recommendations, be it 90 or 900. Then they decided that their sample was those 9 doctors and 1 who didn't recommend the product.
Re:Oh no, there goes Tokyo... (Score:4, Funny)
By giving people pandering to the lowest common denominator you are only killing yourself in the long run. Please stop it Mozilla before it is to late!!!!