“Free and Professional” not a contradiction
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| Free stuff is many times accompanied with a bad taste in common public
| opinion. As a rare exception, the open source software movement however has
| successfully disproved this impression during the last decade. Today major
| firms are involved in this open and free stuff, from IBM, Sun, HP and
| Novell - not to mention Red Hat, which is one of the most successful open
| source vendors.
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https://blog.startcom.org/?p=33
Why Firefox is better than Internet Explorer
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| I want to make some quick comparison to show the differences between Mozilla
| Firefox and Microsoft’s Internet Explorer.
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http://software.ipgp.net/internet/why-firefox-is-better-than-internet-explorer/
Related:
Firefox Still Tops IE for Browser Security
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| "Mozilla is forthcoming about vulnerabilities," Levy said, whereas "it
| takes Microsoft far longer to acknowledge vulnerability."
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| How much longer? "In the last reporting period, the second half of last
| year, Microsoft had acknowledged 13 vulnerabilities. We've now revised it
| to 31. The difference is that now Microsoft has acknowledged these
| vulnerabilities."
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| [...]
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| "Mozilla can turn around on a dime," Levy said. "Open-source programmers
| can recognize a problem and patch it in days or weeks."
|
| And as for Microsoft?
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| "If a vulnerability is reported to Microsoft, Microsoft doesn't
| acknowledge it for at least a month or two. There's always a certain
| lag between knowing about a bug and acknowledging it," Levy said.
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http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1865087,00.asp?kc=EWEWKEMLP093006BOE1
IE7: Twice as performant as IE6, but half as slow as FF 1.5
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| As is well documented, IE 6 is notoriously bad at leaking
| memory, particularly due to circular references that include
| COM objects. The good news is that our tests indicate that
| this problem has been solved in IE 7. While in our test
| profile, it appears to consume more memory than Firefox,
| IE 7 seems to have solved the horrendous memory leaks
| exhibited in IE 6.
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http://ajaxian.com/archives/ie7-twice-as-performant-as-ie6-but-half-as-slow-as-ff-15
http://tinyurl.com/y9han4
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