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I frequently have tabs become completely unresponsive

This started happening to me a few months ago, and yesterday I had about 5 tabs do this. I even cleared the cache and restarted, and it happened again.

I've been having the same thoughts as the OP, and having fled FF around the same time frame, perhaps I should give it another try.
Firefox and Chrome both do this. It is part of the memory caching, which many people disable without knowing the consequences. There were many news articles back around Chrome's release that advised "speed-ups" by disabling cache to free up memory.

And the speed people refer to is JavaScript execution. There is no doubt that V8 was much faster than competitors a few years back.
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How does what I'm writing my node.js on affect anything. It really dosnt matter if I write my node.js on linux or windows, It will still run the code the same. node.js code written linux runs like node.js code wrttien on windows when I run it on windows and vice-versa.
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I think both Flash and Java updates(99% of PCs have them) install Chrome by default.
Droid, iPhone? Nope. The new batAndroid, iPhone?
But once that happens and someone searches 'flower shop leeds' and all that comes up is a bunch of SEO crap. The only way to combat that is for all the flower shops in Leeds to do a little SEO.

And we're only talking about some pretty URLs, better content and some light backlinks from interesting sites.

I used to work in SEO and a lot of what we did was just common sense stuff that non-programmers/designers/html monkies don't know. Just like I don't know how to make a pretty bunch of flowers, they don't know how to make a more simantic website for google to parse
This is a very elitist and snobbish piece of writing and almost entirely inaccurate. Just for fun, I rewrote it a bit:

Just to add, users rarely choose their car at all. If we're talking about the unwashed masses here, then the primary reason Ford, Toyota, GM, or Volkswagon are popular at all is almost entirely due to happenstance. Joe consumer, comprising an ever increasing majority of the car buying population, simply doesn't care about which car she is driving. More often it is a result of what randomly went up for sale at the corner car lot. As a result, Ford's regular placement on the edge of the car lot give it "competitive" edges.
We've just passed the four-year anniversary of the bug that made me abandon Firefox on Mac: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=476541

If you are an extremely fast typer, pretty much any time you use Firefox on OS X to "Save As" you will hit this incarnation of a bug that hangs every tab in your browser and forces you to kill it and start from scratch: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=528149

Total bummer, I love Firefox but I'm not gonna train myself to type slower to keep from breaking it. This is no Therac-25.
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It is enabled for me, pages are served from memory (it doesn't request them from the network again). It's just that Chrome is slow at it, while Opera/FF are instant.
I think it depends on the generality of the software.
Obviously a general purpose remote desktop program has a lot of more legitimate uses that something designed specifically to find CC numbers.

Thing is , you could make a CC sniffing program and then realise "hmm, this might be difficult to defend in court" so you generalise it to something that simply looks for arbitrary strings of numbers. Of course the fact that 90% of your users happen to enter "16" into the box is not your fault.

The generalised program might have useful side effects as a result, but it is no less dangerous than the more specific program.
"If I ever become a Saint — I will surely be one of 'darkness.' I will continually be absent from Heaven — to [light] the light of those in darkness on earth,"

The force of will involved in turning her depression, spiritually focused or otherwise, into her organizing principal is inspiring.

Really, discounting everything else about the woman, positive, negative, whatever, that she could marshall the "darkness" she felt to become the cornerstone of her sense of self, and use that to advance her work, rather than destroy herself, is breathtaking to me.
You can even sync tabs if you like. It's all in the settings...
That is patent nonsense. The web grew because Windows users were able to browse it with IE in the days before Netscape and when the second choice was going with *nix and Mosaic. IE killed Gopher by taking browsing to the masses.

Netscape was a startup and its founder had a Fuck You Money exit before it met its fate as a corporate subsidiary managed across a continent. The legacy of IE6 lives with us because of suboptimal architectural decisions by web developers. Yet, the web is escaping it - unlike the warts of JavaScript.
Who's making big bucks off Mozilla then? No employee or Mozilla higher-up is making more than average. On the other hand, I can name tons of Google, Microsoft, and Apple guys making billions.
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"Hunting" in the UK usually referes to chasing about with horses and dogs, "shooting" to pheasants, grouse etc. and if you tramp about mountainsides after deer it is "stalking".

Interestingly enough, in Scotland although most wild areas are privately owned everyone has a right of access - you can wander about pretty much anywhere that isn't explicitly private or where you would cause harm.
For what it's worth, this post is from 2004. Even with that in mind, this is not a verbatim conversation; the style is Socratic inquiry.
If I read it correctly, the mom and pop shop used "SEO service" to boost up their traffic, but the service used "black hat" ways which result in Google "ban". How do I prevent e.g. my competitor for doing the same to my website?
Many SEO techniques are in line with the user's best interest. Sitemaps, Keywords, accessibility (clean source code) etc. help Google to understand the content of your page better.

That's the reason why people like Matt Cutts exist. Of course, much of SEO IS dirty, and I am not sure if there is serious movement of "ethical SEO".
Throwing patent trolls off the bridge
Even if it were reposted within a month, a considerable number of people would have never seen it before. It's just the nature of these boards.

Just rely on the upvoting system. If people think it is relevant, they upvote. This means things will only show up on the front page if enough people are interested (ie it has been long enough since it was last posted).
Was it ever not dying? I liked the browser, but the lack of support and incorrectly rendering websites got me off of it after at most one evening. (I tried a few times.)
I don't think pg meant it was boring for people to complain about policies they don't like. He seems to have meant it was boring for people to complain about linking to sites that they don't like. I don't think you actually did that directly, but you did say you flagged it, which could be construed the same way.
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Where I live insurance is hyper-regulated and required if you have a mortgage, and I'm not sure exactly how much or how little social engineering input the EPA had, but you're looking at your home insurance bill going up by about $2000 annually if you have a wood burner of any type in your house. Note this isn't silicon valley, and the national median household income is almost exactly $50K, so for more than half the homes in america, you're talking about a "tax" in excess of 4% of gross income merely for the privilege of owning a woodburner.

A tax by any other name... Add to that the cost of obtaining wood, and the substantial mostly product liability costs of a decent wood stove (more than a grand or two) and you've changed owning a woodburner from something any joe 6 pack can have in his house to pretty much elites only.

Sure, technically there's no official ban, but spending 5% of my annual income is kinda extreme as a hobby..
Google do a pretty good job of saying what is acceptable and what isn't acceptable.

And some SEO types are clearly scumbags. Some stuff is clearly, unambiguously, bad.

So, how are naive users supposed to tell the difference between honest decent SEO types, and sub-optimal but not clearly evil SEO types?
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From what I understand, link building, in the semi-legitimate form at least, is contacting bloggers and journalists and saying "Hey, you might really like product X, here's a 30 day trial", sending out press releases, making sure you're in the legitimate directories like yell.com in the UK, etc.

The illegitimate end of is is using hacked forums, wordpress blogs, etc, to post links with exactly the keywords you want to rank for.
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I would like to see the orange in the extension too. Other than that I have no complaints.
Chromium doesn't have a built-in pdf reader :(
Psychopathy? I think it's more likely an excess of free time and puberty boosting testosterone in young men. These are just inquisitive, snooping horny teenagers.
For those who don't know, Bunnie is an absolute rockstar in the hacking/reverse engineering space. His detailed research and clear explanations are an inspiration. If you'd like a quick idea of what you're getting into, read this: http://web.mit.edu/bunnie/www/proj/anatak/AIM-2002-008.pdf

And thank you Bill Pollock! No Starch Press is a revelation in the tech publishing space. The books they choose to publish have always been clear and useful. A friend was showing me a book he just bought this weekend and I saw the logo on the cover. He did look at me strangely when I said - "No Starch, must be great!" :).
Works well when I search Chinese keywords
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I think the fundamental issue that people have with the patent system isn't actually trolls--it's the issuance of vague/obvious/overbroad patents. Trolls are just the most visible manifestation.

This bill would not address problems at the USPTO, but it might limit their impact by reducing troll litigation.
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Calling yourself a "Google optimization consultant" or whatever might run the risk of trademark issues.

You also might care if you get to #1 in bing. Sure it's nowhere near as well used as google in terms of % but it still adds up to several million eyeballs.

Being #1 on bing for some search term that is super competitive on google is likely to bring a huge amount of traffic.
> It makes complete sense. We take number of children and we take the number of times something bad occurs to that population

So what you're saying is [deaths of children by gun]/[number of children]. That's not an absolute number, 1 in 100000 is just a percentage disguised (0.01%).

My only remark on your comment is that only children living in houses that have a gun should be taken into account when calculating the risk of "having your child killed by a gun that you keep in your house".
I'm using a non-us keyboard layout and unfortunately that doesn't work...
I'm having trouble understanding what point you're trying to make. What, exactly, is "entirely inaccurate" about the comment? How is your rendition with physical cars similar? How is it snobbish in the least?
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"But once that happens and someone searches 'flower shop leeds' and all that comes up is a bunch of SEO crap. The only way to combat that is for all the flower shops in Leeds to do a little SEO."

The best way would be to let the likes of google update their algorithm to avoid the crappy SEO sites. I appreciate that the best way for the flower shop to maintain its business is to go SEO, however they are then becoming part of the problem.

"And we're only talking about some pretty URLs, better content and some light backlinks from interesting sites."

I'm not sure what you mean about 'light backlinks', but for the rest, changing your own website to be more easily parseable by Google? Cool. That's your domain, knock yourself out. Filling the web with crap and linkspam? Not so much.
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That's great, but isn't what I think of when I think SEO. It sounds a lot like getting good search results by making a good site, which I'm all for!
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Add foto your girl to site and vote on the other girls. We search the prettiest girl in the internet.
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Very true, on windows at least every single browser renders fonts however they feel like. I wish someone would stand up and propose a standard way to render fonts (yes, I know pages don't necessarily have to look exactly pixel perfect across browsers, but it would simplify the design process a lot)
You can always disable it in the sync settings. Seriously this is HN, not some news site.
Ooh, and mobile phones have less security-concious users and often no AV software. Seems like a major oversight.

On that note, Japanese law requires cameraphones sold there to always make a loud shutter sound upon taking a picture, to prevent voyeurism etc. This is why the Nintendo 3DS handheld console's shutter sound can't be silenced.
Yes, a led that lights up does sound pretty suspicious to you and me, but if you don't know anything about computers and you see it on all the time it becomes natural. The same phenomena as clicking 'yes' and 'ok' buttons without reading anything.
No love for Firefox? Could someone repackage this to work on Firefox? Please!
Have you ever actually had an intruder in your home?

I have had it happen twice. Once right after we moved into a brand new house (3-4 days after move in). Some local kids had figured out that the front door could be opened because the lock was installed wrong and were using the house to party while it was empty. They hadn't realized that people moved in.

Our golden retriever scared the crap out of them and they never made it 5 feet into the house - even though the dog was on the second floor. Now there is a solid defense system. I'll note that at the time, we had 5 guns locked up in the closest safely stored. The dog was down the stairs and dealing with the situation before I was even conscious enough to think. The whole thing would have been over before the guns were out if it was worse than some dumb kids.

Second time it happened was only 18 months ago. This was a little different because I was on a boat at night, but again I was certain that two big adult men were robbing boats in the vincity. I called the cops. The cops sent the coast guard. We hunkered down and hid (probably not the right call, should have turned on the lights). I wish I had a gun in that moment, they were 15 feet from our stern and definitely coming onboard. There is no where to go on a boat like that. I had a mag light and a radio, and when the guys started heading for my boat I hit them with the light. Meanwhile the cops went from sneaking over at 5mph to screaming over at 45mph. That defused the situation, but if there weren't cops and/or I had a gun I would have definitely shot a round or two into the water to scare them off. Possibly more.

When the cops actually picked them up, it turned out they were 2 14 year olds sneaking onto boats at night stealing booze. The cops made them apologize for scaring the crap out of us, so I met them. They couldn't have been 115 pounds each. If I hadn't saw them, I honestly could have sworn under oath they were 300 pound linebackers based on their silhouettes on other boats. Thank god I didn't have a gun that day, I'm almost certain I would have shot one of them. This is how kids get shot while holding skittles and even trained police officers confuse wallets for guns. Your mind plays tricks on you.

My lessons learned: keep the lights on. Own a dog. If there are intruders, make them totally aware you are there because most of the time, they want nothing to do with people. I'm not against owning guns, but if you store them safely they won't be as much help as you think.
Oh I see, this is a contrarian piece. Because I know more than a little went wrong -- see http://world.myjoyonline.com/pages/africa/201303/102427.php

and

http://www.nation.co.ke/News/politics/Computer-bug-behind-th... tell me the vote count ended up by hand ...
"It seems a lot of Android fanboys and "Google Openness believers" are sleepwalking us all into the next dark "Microsoft" chapter."

If anyone is "sleepwalking" anyone anywhere then I think it's the people making big money from companies like Google, not consumers or openness advocates. That is, people like you before you found yourself unceremoniously kicked out of the club.
This is very meta, but what I find infinitely more annoying is this trend of people who love to repost their own comments 10 times in 10 different threads loosely related to the same issue. We should start punishing instead of rewarding that. I'm looking at you, tokenadult.

At least with link repetition I can quickly see whether I already read this and decide to ignore it. But re-posting an old, cancerously-grown comment with a new first paragraph is just mean and lazy.
That's always bothered me. Firefox's fonts are so crisp and clear. Chrome's look faded for some reason.
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notimetorelax sent (thanks man) and read the exert. Seems like a good book so far. I'll be sure to go out and get it today. That is... if bookstores still exists.
Well one of the problems is that nearly all the stories follow that trope. What's wrong with expanding the number of stories we can tell? Why do we have to have the same story all the time?

(Additionally, it's debateable if the dearth of females saving males in a genre is "harmless").
well, sorry. It was shocking good and never seen b4 for me. But, it's so good that I would like to read it again in a year or so :)
I used to be a Firefox user a couple of years ago and then when I switched to Chrome I noticed a BIG difference in the performance. Chrome was faster and more stable.

Now, similar to the OP I keep having issues with Chrome, the biggest of which is its memory usage.

"Memory usage is off the charts and I frequently have tabs become completely unresponsive."

In my case, it not only eats 2GB of my RAM, but also takes a bit proportion of my hard-disk. I did a quick experiment yesterday and measured my FREE HDD space before closing Chrome and after that.

Before: 800 MB free.
After: 10.9 GB free :)

It's true I keep a lot of tabs open (>70), but 10GB.. I think that's too much. Now, I'm considering switching back to Firefox, too.
This is inside your home. It's betrayal and an invasion of privacy, it's an active hack, it records audio and video and the peeper is sharing the audio and video with the world.

It's a order of magnitude worse than looking in through a gap in someone's curtains.
Do you really think capping memory usage comes without costs?
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> No exchange of ideas on this topic

So you are commenting just to offer your hard-won life wisdom to the rest of us?

Thank you?
Yes it's a classic. Supplemental to RFC 2616.
The page now 404's, even though it's still linked like this from http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology/.

Edit: It's resolving properly now for me.
I love this Wikipedia article because it explains what is happening at oDesk/Elance, see this discussion:
http://www.quora.com/Why-is-there-not-a-premium-equivalent-o...
Maybe it's not such a bad thing to learn to play as a character that is not exactly like you.

Perhaps, but most male gamers don't have to do that a lot. Most playable characters are male. If "learning how to play as someone different" is a good thing, we should radically increase the number of female characters so men can play as women more, right? right?

(I'm being sarcastic, I think there should be more choice for everyone)
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Mobile consoles like PSP(\s*)? and Nintendo .?DS.? are loosing quickly market share to AppStore-based devices (from apple, google, etc...) in mobile or tablet form.

I would bet for firefoxOS on the mobile/tablet market (http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/partners/)- just because "low-end" devices will grab a lot of market share in "developing" countries and users with their first smartphone (think about growth).

For living room & sofa consoles... the hardest part is not programming, but publishing. Try the one with more "indie" games.
Hello guys,

I am an independent developer working on my personal project, which I hope I will be able to call "a startup" some day, from home. So while I don't have anything cool to show you, I 'd love to have a coffee or a beer and talk with you. Let me know if you are up for it. :)

Also, you could try posting on this fb group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/395011077224173/ I am sure you'll find plenty of startups to visit.
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Some people are incapable of understanding that some rule out there are wrong and should be questioned. They cannot actually understand how people do this questioning. I guess they sleep easy at night knowing all is right with the world, because those lawyers are on our side.
This is a ROM for an arcade game. It's highly unlikely to be much DRM. Additionally he might not be in the USA.
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http://i.imgur.com/Y6GYW7e.png

Are they paying or not?
It most likely derives from "master/slave" relationships like client/server. "Slave" is chosen since makes adolescent boys feel like they have power. The author is merely using the community's terminology.
I would really like to see a revival of the path to lifestyle businesses. It's kind of bizarre that it's nearly impossible to start one without putting your entire life at risk. We see these bizarre VC-istan gambits (most of which flame out utterly) because you can start one of those without risking savings and personal liability, but not a lifestyle business. That's bizarre and weird.

Lifestyle business != zombie. A zombie startup is a get-big-or-die beast in which the major stakeholders have lost faith, and for which growth is unlikely.

On the other hand, a lifestyle business capable of generating a mere 1% per week, reliably, is doing well. That's a doubling every 16 months. As long as the company keeps headcount and scope from growing too fast, that's fine.

For headcount growth, anything more than 20% per year is usually unhealthy. It is very difficult for a company to keep a good culture at a faster growth rate.

We need to be realistic. Not everything that is useful can grow at 10% per week, and people who don't want to spend 4 years of their life creating a build-to-flip get-big-or-die venture shouldn't be shut out of entrepreneurship in the way that they are now.
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