Seen on the street in Kyiv.

Words of Advice:

"If Something Seems To Be Too Good To Be True, It's Best To Shoot It, Just In Case." -- Fiona Glenanne

“The Mob takes the Fifth. If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?” -- The TOFF *

"Foreign Relations Boil Down to Two Things: Talking With People or Killing Them." -- Unknown

“Speed is a poor substitute for accuracy.” -- Real, no-shit, fortune from a fortune cookie

"Thou Shalt Get Sidetracked by Bullshit, Every Goddamned Time." -- The Ghoul

"If you believe that you are talking to G-d, you can justify anything.” — my Dad

"Colt .45s; putting bad guys in the ground since 1873." -- Unknown

"Stay Strapped or Get Clapped." -- probably not Mr. Rogers

"The Dildo of Karma rarely comes lubed." -- Unknown

"Eck!" -- George the Cat

* "TOFF" = Treasonous Orange Fat Fuck,
"FOFF" = Felonious Old Fat Fuck,
"COFF" = Convicted Old Felonious Fool,
A/K/A Commandante (or Cadet) Bone Spurs,
A/K/A El Caudillo de Mar-a-Lago, A/K/A the Asset,
A/K/A P01135809, A/K/A Dementia Donnie, A/K/A Felon^34,
A/K/A Dolt-45, A/K/A Don Snoreleone

Tuesday, March 10, 2009

"Firefox Had a Problem and Crashed"

Story of my fucking life right now. What did they do, hire a bunch of software mungers from MicroSoft?

I'm switching to Opera for awhile.
Posted by on or about 21:49

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Chrome seems to be pretty good but that's only after using it for a few days.

3/10/2009 10:26 PM
BadTux said...

Firefox on MacOS is broken too. After a while it just gets slower... and slower... and slower... until eventually it just doesn't do anything at all no matter what you click. Safari has no such problem. And no, it's not a memory leak, I checked with the Activity Monitor utility and Firefox was not using significantly more memory than expected, and every other application was running plenty fast. Telling Activity Monitor to sample Firefox showed that Firefox was spinning on a lock for some resource shared between its threads. More than that, I can't tell, other than it appears that they hired some of the former Netscape 4.x programmers to work on it (Netscape 4.x was the broken version of Netscape that killed Netscape Communications, they spent literally four years trying to get it reliable and never did, then when they released the source code the people who looked at it were so appalled at how badly it was written that they wrote Firefox instead of trying to fix it).

BTW, I once had the pleasure of serving under a VP of Engineering who had been the manager in charge of Netscape Navigator version 4.0. Yes, he was just as incompetent as you would expect...

- Badtux the Internet Penguin

3/10/2009 11:16 PM

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