Wednesday, December 21, 2005

Is this the beginning of the end for firefox?

I began using firefox in late 2003. I was drawn to the browsers incredible security, speed, and efficient use of system of system resources. up untill version 1.06, each release had been equally as stable and lean as the last. 1.06 and .07 seemed just a bit slower, but still very tolerable. After installing and using 1.5 for a month, i just want to wonder, what happened? The browser chews through memory, somtimes using 30% CPU cycles. The browser has managed to crash my PC, which us based on an athlon 64 3200+ and 1 gig of ram. The browser also crashes during more page loads than any other version that I have ever used. i don't know if its just sloppy coding, or a beta that was pushed out too soon as a final release. At this point it seems to me that it takes up as much memory as IE, if not more, not to mention the huge memory leak that grows of browser is left open for more than 12 hours. I really hope that the Mozilla dev team will work these problem out. The last few versions of the browser were perfect, why ruin the record now?

Tuesday, December 13, 2005

CWA attacks tech columist John C Dvorak Over .xxx domain

Links
Dvorak's post:
http://www.dvorak.org/blog/?p=3546#comments

CWA press release:
http://www.cwfa.org/articles/9663/LEGAL/pornography/index.htm

Wow, im a conservative and even I think that these women are nuts. Groups like this make all conservatives look like bible banging prudes. It floors me how a good "christian" like Jan LaRue takes so many cheap shots on Mr. Dvorak in her press release. Apparenently Ms. LaRue has very little knowledge on how the internet works, and how viral porn advertising has gotten so bad in the first place. Pornographers have no desire to market their product to "impressionable children" because the kids can't pay for it anyway. I don't know of too many 13 year olds with a credit card. What buisness markets its product to those who are unable to buy it. I know that there is free porn on the net, but the .xxx domain would make it easier for parents to keep track of their kids in the first place. After all, controlling what a kid sees on the net is the job of the parent anyway. All kids will see porn sometime. There was porn way before the advent of the net, and there will be porn long after its gone.

Lady, as a christian, techie, and conservative,
I would just like to let you know;

You don't speak for me!

-Jonsey out