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The fastest browser on earth and some other thoughts :)

Postby viking60 » 05 Aug 2010, 01:44

I like my browsing to be fast and snappy so I decided to find out which browser is the best. I fired up Firefox 3.6.8 and there was nothing snappy about it.
Opera 10.60 must be better I thought, after all it is the "fastest browser on earth".
Not so, it simply is not.
So I was left with Chromium 6.0.478.0 (53895) (boy what a long number!) and it popped up fast and snappy.
So I find myself using it, even if i do not like the collection of data that Google does, at all! Google knows when I pick my nose, when I go to the toilet, what I eat and my favorite drink.
Why bother? "You have not done anything criminal" you might say, and you would be right. At least here where I live. - Come to think of it: I did accidentally touch a womans breasts on the beach the other day, and there is a death penalty for that in Iran.
I also might have drawn some religious figures in school in my childhood days. There is a death penalty for that in some religions.Thanks to Google those guys would know all about it too.
So when I get the top job in BP - you have to admit my chances are good (who else would want it?)- I will have trouble doing it, because I will not be let in to the big oil project in that distant country .

It is a bit like the apple (No! not the Ipad) Eve gave to Adam - he knew he shouldn't take it, and he did anyway.
So WHY do I do it?
Because it is the fastest :)
If it is fast enough, sexy enough, big enough, tempting enough I take it!
It is true you know; Man is not able to learn from history: (which has thought us that, that kind of information will be abused - as certain as Amen in the church)


So I find myself using Chromium even if it is going to cost me the top job in BP....

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Re: The fastest browser on earth and some other thoughts :)

Postby dedanna1029 » 05 Aug 2010, 04:12

I know this sounds really really strange, but I find myself checking out Midori more and more...
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Re: The fastest browser on earth and some other thoughts :)

Postby viking60 » 05 Aug 2010, 10:51

Well there is a difference between being tempted and sell your soul to the Devil. :T You are talking about about the Managed code operating system that is being developed by Microsoft right?
Technically Microsoft has it's moments (don't tell anyone) but the open hostility - yeas war - against open source and Linux in particular, is stupid and dirty.
Yes they want to protect their market shares and their money - thats OK if you accept the concept of business - but the methods are not.
Is it that tempting?

PS I was a god boy again while writing this in Firefox, with the Google sharing plugin enabled. It is the risk junkie in me that occasionally leads me into temptation, I guess :D
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Postby dedanna1029 » 05 Aug 2010, 12:25

No, nothing Microsoft here.

I'm talking about the Linux browser...
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Re: The fastest browser on earth and some other thoughts :)

Postby viking60 » 05 Aug 2010, 13:36

Aha I thought you were talking about this one: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midori_%28 ... _system%29

I will have to take a look at that browser - it is new to me,
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Re: The fastest browser on earth and some other thoughts :)

Postby dedanna1029 » 05 Aug 2010, 13:54

Nah. I wouldn't put an operating system in a browser thread.

It's in the Mandriva repos, or used to be.

urpmq --sources midori

It's in Fedora, too.

yum install midori

Arch I haven't checked yet.
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Re: The fastest browser on earth and some other thoughts :)

Postby viking60 » 05 Aug 2010, 14:19

I Just installed it in Mandriva.
Funny thing I stated it an it crashed after 10 sec. It just vanished. Restarted it and all was good. Looks simple and it is appears to be fast to. But i will have to test it on my "slow box" to be sure....
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Re: The fastest browser on earth and some other thoughts :)

Postby dedanna1029 » 05 Aug 2010, 14:29

It actually crashed on me too last night. Filed a bug report in Fedora.

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=621442

They're gonna regret abrt in Fedora. I've got so many bugs going now it's not funny. LOL.
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Re: The fastest browser on earth and some other thoughts :)

Postby viking60 » 05 Aug 2010, 14:58

Yeah it is a testing ground for Red Hat. Thank God for the stability of Arch.
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