mkadams001
Well-Known Member
- Joined
- Apr 10, 2009
- Messages
- 879
- Reaction score
- 1
Since I use a Mac, I run Safari (version 4 public Beta) with no problems on most sites. For problem sites I use Firefox. When I work in windows I like Firefox.
I don't know how Microsoft accomplished that feat. With Adblock Plus on Firefox 3, I don't see ANY ads, period.I use ... with IE7 getting the most use and being my preferred browser. Mostly because it looks prettier than the others . I installed the free IE7Pro add on, which gives IE similar functions to many Firefox addons, such as an ad/flash blocker (which I find easier and far more effective than Ad Block Plus) ...
Phil
Why? So you can get stuck with Safari, which is nearly as bad as IE?
Forget it. Just get firefox
Ah, in denial of microsoft's curse , i pity you. Using microsoft is almost as bad as being a redsox (redsux?) fan.
It's a 24" 1920x1200 monitor. For comparison, here's how the same page renders in IE8.
I don't know how Microsoft accomplished that feat. With Adblock Plus on Firefox 3, I don't see ANY ads, period.
(With IE7 and the IE7Pro add-on, you see fewer than that? But of course! When IE crashes, you don't see any ... No, stop! I'm not going to go there... )
Mostly because I'm lazy and IE is the"standard" that all web sites should run.
Maybe I've just got ABP set up badly, or using the wrong list, but on some sites a few ads still sneak through which I don't see when using IE. Either addon is still easily the *best* thing you can add to a browser though.
That's odd - matlab runs flawlessly (R2008b) on my Vista system, including about a 3 second startup.
It helps that I have a really fast hard drive (2 WD 300GB Velociraptors in RAID 0) and 12 gigs of RAM. A decent chunk of the program is probably already cached in memory when I want to start it, and the rest can be read in almost no time.I have R2008b too. I know it is faster on Windows, but I don't know how you are getting it to start in 3 seconds (or what I am doing wrong to make it start in a minute).
Part of the problem on Macs is that it has to start X11 and Java. X11 is a bit slow (and does not integrate well with the OS at all), and Java is really slow. If I start it in the command line with matlab -nojvm it will start in about 10 seconds, and if I use matlab -nodesktop it will take about 15 seconds. Both of these cause it not to load the whole IDE, though, so scripts have to be edited with a text editor.
I probably just need to reinstall my OS sometime since everything is getting slow. OS X automatically defragments files as long as there is enough free space on the disk, but I am down to less than 2% free (on a 320Gb disk!), so everything keeps getting slower.
Sorry about hijacking the thread.
It helps that I have a really fast hard drive (2 WD 300GB Velociraptors in RAID 0) and 12 gigs of RAM.
It helps that I have a really fast hard drive (2 WD 300GB Velociraptors in RAID 0) and 12 gigs of RAM. A decent chunk of the program is probably already cached in memory when I want to start it, and the rest can be read in almost no time.
I'm sorry, but what could you possibly need 12gb of RAM for?
(besides running Vista...)
But will it run Crysis?
There are differences. The main one there is no "zones" as in IE, so security can be a little of a challenge. I also find it a little harder to customize.
Editing a Word document, perhaps?...I think my personal record when not running a program like chkdsk or a RAM benchmark is somewhere around 9.2 gigs in use. I can't remember what I was doing at the time though...
It is a very useful tool to stop site from doing damage. I came across a few bad sites ( from searching) and I was able to place them in the restricted zone and not have to worry about going there again.The zones are, in my opinion, one of the biggest problems with IE -- it develops a mind of its own and decides systems are in certain zones, regardless of what you tell it.
-Kevin
It is a very useful tool to stop site from doing damage. I came across a few bad sites ( from searching) and I was able to place them in the restricted zone and not have to worry about going there again.
If you like fast javascript, have you tried the FF3.5 beta with the new javascript engine enabled?