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Open Source Software. I just don’t get it. | A reply
You never know what kind of response you might get from a post. Anyone who blogs realizes this.
You might write a post believing that it would elicit a decent response in the way of comments only to find it languishing in a desert of non-responsiveness. Then there are the other “spur-of-the-moment” type posts you [...]
Posted in Just Thinkin
Also tagged developers, linux, mozilla, open source software, tinymce, Wordpress
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Open Source Software. I just don’t get it.
I just don’t get it.
When it comes to home computers and the software that runs on them I’m not a developer I’m a user. A technically advanced user, yes but a user nonetheless. Same goes for software that runs in the so-called “Cloud”. It takes a certain mindset, a certain way of thinking to [...]
Posted in Just Thinkin
Also tagged developers, linux, mozilla, open source software, source code, tinymce, Wordpress
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Firefox 3 RC1 High CPU and Memory Use? Try This Fix.
This post is out of date: Please see the updated post on my new tech site–Green Mountain Geek
In testing out Firefox 3 RC1 I realized that when loading up a page in a foreground tab when two or more tabs were present, my single core CPU maxed out and loading slowed to a crawl making [...]
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Also tagged Firefox 3, Firefox 3 RC1, Firefox high CPU, Firefox high memory
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Firefox 3 Release Candidate 1 Code Complete!
The developers at Mozilla have handed off the final code for the upcoming Firefox RC1 to "Build" this morning:
Thanks to all the hard work of the Mozilla community as of 9:15 AM PDT today (Saturday, May 10th) we are code complete for Firefox 3 Release Candidate 1 (RC1). New nightly builds are available – if [...]
Firefox 3 RC1 Next Week?
For those of you who are anxiously awaiting the first release candidate of Firefox 3 (like me) it looks like the wait will soon be over. Checking the latest RC1 blockers (bugs that are currently blocking the release candidate) shows only 4 remaining bugs to squash before RC1 can get itself out of the trunk. [...]
Keeping an Eye on Firefox 3 RC1
Checking in my stats the last few days I’ve noticed quite a few folks looking for information on the first release candidate of Firefox 3 and possibly when the release date might be. Well, the closest the developers will get on an actual date is “sometime in May” and since the date for the final [...]
Mozilla squashes Firefox 3 Flash Bug
This post is out of date: Please see the updated post on my new tech site–Green Mountain Geek
Adobe’s Flash plugin for Firefox has never offered the kind of quality performance that the equivalent plugin for Internet Explorer has but at least it handled most Flash based video fairly well. However, somewhere around the 14th of [...]
Getting off the Trunk-Firefox 3 RC1 Upcoming Release
I’ll be getting off the Trunk here real soon now. After several months of using the nightly builds of Firefox 3 (called "Minefield"), the first release candidate went into lockdown on April 8th which basically means no more new feature or function changes, beat any showstoppers into submission, send to build and QA, QA, QA.
It [...]
