[geeks] Dual Core Rules: your bugs will run twice as fast

[Joshua Boyd]

On Tue, Feb 13, 2007 at 12:33:29PM -0500, Charles Shannon Hendrix wrote:
> Joshua Boyd wrote:
> > On Tue, Feb 13, 2007 at 12:55:37AM -0500, Charles Shannon Hendrix wrote:
> >  
> >> Of course, I see the same thing out of Firefox and Thunderbird on all
> >> platforms.  Variations in exactly how they waste resources, but the end
> >> result is generally the same.
> >>
> >> The sad thing is that everything else sucks worse.
> >>
> >> Well, I've heard good things about some of the Mac browsers, but I
> >> haven't played with them much.
> > 
> > I would say that Safari sucks approximately equally.  Apple claims that
> > they are now going to get serious about cleaning it up and stablizing it
> > though.  
> 
> Well, it's based on Konqueror or at least the engine in it, so I imagine it
> has the same problems.

It appears that webkit (a fork of khtml) has had tons of feature work
done to it (which sounds like it is possibly buggy), and the rate of
stuff feeding back to konquor is slow. 
 
> > On Linux I would say that Konqeror also sucks equally.  I find it handy
> > to use both instead of just one.
> 
> Konqueror lacks critical features, and I hate the whole idea of a WWW
> and file browser being the same application.  A few changes and I
> could use it more. 

Yeah, it is a bit like IE in that respect.
 
> It sucks to use bookmarks, because it mixes them all together.

I don't bookmark disc locations, or use it as a file browser, so that
doesn't effect me.

The reason I use konqueror, or I should say used konqueror, was because
it was easier to have one web browser with flash and one without than it
was to turn flash on and off in firefox (which I never actually figured
out how to do without restarting).

That said, that reason for using konqueror ceased to be a current reason
when I switched to a 64bit linux laptop (my thinkpad was stolen from its
case as gated checked bagage, and the replacement was a C2D.  Naively I
thought that 64bit linux would be a good idea.  So far I've found lots
of inconvienience[0], and can't say for sure that I'm benefiting), and
I've never gotten around to figuring out how to use 32bit plugins.  

[0]  The worst is that my current project isn't 64bit safe, and I can't
     convince the contract developer to take 64bit failures seriously
     since the project is targetted at a 32bit system currently.

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