Gemal's Psyched BlogA blog about Mozilla development and other open source developmentFirefox 3 beta 5 will have improved connection parallelism- March 18, 2008 Mozilla Firefox 3 beta 5 will, when it comes out, have some improvements in connection parallelism. Just like IE8 increase from 2 concurrent connections per host to 6, Mozilla Firefox will also increase it to 6. The about:config entry for this is "network.http.max-persistent-connections-per-server". Furthermore the max number of HTTP connections will be increase from 24 to 30. The about:config entry for this is "network.http.max-connections". The number of HTTP connections that can be...http://gemal.dk/blog/2008/03/18/firefox_3_beta_5_will_have_improved_connection_parallelism... Forget Facebook. The Web's platform is Firefox- March 17, 2008 "John Lilly, CEO of Mozilla, argues that the Firefox platform is actually more robust and easier to use than "rival" platforms like Facebook, iPhone, etc. Unlike these others, Firefox is a true community platform, reflecting the tastes, requirements, and whims of a broad array of users. It plays host to a wide array of third-party plug-ins. But the community angle doesn't end with plug-ins. 40 percent of the Firefox code wasn't written by Mozilla. This has stayed constant as Mozilla has grown...http://gemal.dk/blog/2008/03/17/forget_facebook_the_webs_platform_is_firefox/?from=rss Free porn with Firefox- March 11, 2008 This is the actual headline from the largest online newspapers Ekstra Bladet in Denmark. See the full article here. The online newspaper Ekstra Bladet had a poll about the Mozilla usage. 57% answered that they used Mozilla Firefox. The true Firefox usage at ekstrabladet.dk is much lower. The statistics shows that only 10% of the visitors are using Firefox. Denmark is Microsoft country. But back to the free porn. One of the comments in the poll was that Firefox is much better at surfing porn...http://gemal.dk/blog/2008/03/11/free_porn_with_firefox/?from=rss Welcome Humans!- March 9, 2008 A new about: entry has just been checked in. This time it's about:robots. So if you're running nightly builds of Mozilla Firefox you can type "about:robots" and see this page: For more information about this page and why it's there, turn to bug 417302. Other known about: pages are: about:mozilla about:cache about:config about:plugins about:buildconfig about:credits plus others. You can see all of them by reading the code herehttp://gemal.dk/blog/2008/03/09/welcome_humans/?from=rss Firefox 3 with Profile-Guided Optimization = Speeding ticket- March 4, 2008 The latest nightly builds of Mozilla Firefox 3 is now being build with Profile Guided Optimization (PGO). So what does this mean That Firefox 3 is getter even faster. A lot of work has been done in making Firefox the fastest browser on the earth. And now with PGO we just got around 11% faster in JavaScript tests. Unofficial we are now the fastest browser on the earth and more than 30% faster in JavaScript tests than the latest Opera Beta (9.5.9807) Hopefully the next Firefox 3 beta will be...http://gemal.dk/blog/2008/03/04/firefox_3_with_profileguided_optimization_speeding_ticket/... |