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On Thu, 13 Aug 2015 15:43:57 +0100 (BST)
Gordon Henderson <gordon+lug@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hello Gordon,
>Thanks.
NP.
>I've no idea what they are - or had no idea. I've no idea why Mozilla
>things they're a good idea.
Likewise. I couldn't even be bothered to find out too much about them;
I just noticed an icon in the url bar that I didn't recognise, and
wondered what it was for. A quick search of the 'net came back with
results that boiled down to 'resource hogs'. Still using a five y/o
dual core machine here and not too much RAM either. CPU cycles count
for something here.
>It was getting to the point where it was stalling ever few words I was
>typing into stupid web forms )-:
I know how bloody frustrating that can be - think you've missed out a
few chars, then the buffer dumps a load of cack into the text gadget.
Grrrrr.....
>I guess the old idea of one program to do one thing and do it well has
>well and truly gone out of the window...
Depends on how you define 'do one thing', I suppose. One /could/ argue
that "the internet" is one thing and Ff should handle it all. Like you,
I don't belong to that school of thought.
--
Regards _
/ ) "The blindingly obvious is
/ _)rad never immediately apparent"
If you ain't sticking your knives in me, you will be eventually
Monsoon - Robbie Williams
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