Like the iPhone, Google Chrome has been embraced by most of the media with rose-tinted spectacles enhanced praise. Much of the acclaim coming before anyone had actually even used the open source browser in a real-world environment. Now that it has been put to that test, how shiny can the Chrome reputation remain?
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Anybody up to writing good directory software?
Tue, 2007-02-20 11:17 — David JonathanSince the very beginning, directories (of any kind) have had a very central role in the internet. (I have recently grown fond of Free Web Directory. Even Slashdot can be considered a directory: a collection of great news and invaluable user-generated comments. As far as software is concerned, doing a quick search on Google about software directories will return the free (as in freedom) software directories like Savannah, SourceForge, Freshmeat and so on, followed by shareware and freeware sites such as FileBuzz, PCWin Download Center and All Freeware (great if you're looking for shareware and freeware, but definitely less comprehensive than their free-as-in-freedom counterparts).
Is better education the key to finding better software?
Sat, 2007-03-03 03:25 — Edward RusselI read David Jonathon's article Anybody Up To Writing Good Directory Software? the other day, which got me thinking about software directories in general. As David mentioned, many of the software directories one finds when doing a quick google search are free as in beer, not as in freedom. But what interests me is the software directories that already exist, providing a combination of both free as in beer software, and open source software. Sites such as Freeware Downloads and Shareware Download don't advertise themselves as providing free as in liberty software, but each of them have a good selection of open source software available... if you know where to look.
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julianmiles
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WebKit is far faster than Gecko
I've been playing with webkit-based browsers a lot lately and Firefox can't come close to touching webkit as far as performance or memory usage (or, rather, lack of) goes.
Webkit (I've only been playing with the demo browser in the webkit source packages) starts up instantly on my machines whereas Firefox stutters for a good 30+ seconds just starting up, and memory usage isn't even comparable. Firefox hogs 100's of MB whereas Webkit is less than half that.
I'm not normally a KDE fan, but the KDE guys got something right with their HTML rendering widget, KHTML2, which is the base for webkit.
Now that Apple (and now Google?) are taking an interest in helping to improve the engine further, I'm seriously considering making the jump to a webkit based browser and uninstalling the bloat that is Firefox.
(It obviously won't be Chrome since I don't run Windows)