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[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Hal Merritt) writes: > Interesting observation about Firefox users - folks a bit more > knowledgeable. Also interesting is that the risks of using IE are borne > by the end user, not the company. Perhaps we need to give these > companies some incentives to support Firefox to counter the pressure > from MS. before firefox, i was using mozilla with tab support ... i had folder that i could click on and fetch 100 or so different websites in different tabs (while i went out for coffee) ... this was somewhat to compensate for having a dial line ... and objected to the latency with standard web browsing. the initial folder had lots of news sites ... and interesting links, I would click for loading asyncronous in the background (into yet another new tab). by the time, i had finished the first 100 tabs ... i might have yet another 400-800 (or sometimes more) to look at. all of these default to javascript off. at the time, mozilla would start to noticeably bog down with more than 300-400 open tabs. Enabling javascript execution would really aggrevate the situation ... to the point that mozilla would frequently hang saying that some script was not responding (and required clicking on a popup). firefox appeared and pushed as significantly more lightweight ... so i switched (but still kept javascript disabled). along the way, i found that it was possible to signal firefox externally for loading URL into new tab. I moved the initial folder URLs to an external process that used WGET to retrieve the initial URLs, and (having saved the previous retrieval) check for new URLs on the pages. Then the external process would remove any duplicates and cross-check "new" URLs against the browser history information ... before signalling firefox to load each URL into new tab (sort of analogous to very targeted search engine process ... with background asyncronously fetching of "new" web pages into new tabs). recent post describing some of the process http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008b.html#32 Tap and faucet and spellcheckers http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008b.html#35 Tap and faucet and spellcheckers firefox has since moved its history (and other) information into relational respository ... so looking at the history information requires some sql queries. for a little relational topic drift ... recent thread mentioning apple's datacenter in the early 80s and what system did they use for running their business: http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008d.html#17 more on (the new 40+ yr old) virtualization http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008d.html#23 more on (the new 40+ yr old) virtualization ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
