Adobe has been on my crap list for a while. Adobe Flash is unbearably slow, it drags my performance of my PC down to crawl. I ensure my PC is updated on a regular basis and I apply the patches when they release them, but all it ever seems to do is get worse.

I’ve a plug-in for Firefox that monitors web pages for changes; one of those pages is Adobe Flash 64-bit. I’ve my page updater tell me when certain pages gets updates. The other day I got a notice that the page had been updated- I very excited; did something happen?

No. Yes- kinda.

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It’s been a fascinating ascension for the version control of Google’s Chrome. It was only two years ago [basically] that Google released their own browser.

So, basically in two years Chrome has gone from beta to v6. That’s actually pretty impressive in the world of program development and version control. If you look at Firefox or Internet Explorer these browsers are putting along in regards to versions. Firefox isn’t even version 4 yet and Internet Explorer is working on the release of version 9.

Why the race for Google to climb so fast?

What’s the importance?

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The previous version of Ubuntu was plagued by the issue of not being compatible with Adobe Flash right out of the box. Let me rephrase that, it had plenty of issues where people couldn’t install Adobe Flash and use it on Ubuntu.

And I didn’t see it as a flaw of Ubuntu solely, but it was a collection of Ubuntu and Firefox. Ubuntu said to install Adobe Flash this way, and Firefox was saying install Adobe Flash this way. The process just wasn’t cleaned up and it made a bunch of people just irritated for not having something so ubiquitous working right out of the box.

But what the Ubuntu team did with v10.04 was perfect…

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During the day, I’m a mild mannered corporate worker, dealing with the corporate world and a corporate IT departments rules, restrictions and security practices. And during my daily grind, I’m forced to use an inferior web browser because someone, on some level, some where in the corporate structure says that Internet Explorer is more secure than Firefox, or Chrome, or Safari, or even Opera.

I’ve to use Internet Explorer at work and it makes me so nervous and frustrated.

Internet Explorer is the bane of the Internet and it’s a security risk in every sense of the word, if not more. I’m here to show that Internet Explorer causes deformities.

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Internet Explorer is just a disgusting example of what a browser should be and what it should do… It should be safe, secure, fast and compliant with current standards. All these words mean nothing to Internet Explorer.

Why is Microsoft still in this ‘race‘ anyway? They’re losing ground on every point of what an Internet browser is and how it should perform.

Microsoft is showing a lot of effort in a project that just isn’t happening. It’s like putting all this time and effort in to a sports car made of cheese, and your name is Ferrari; it may look real nice and have the name recognition, but it’s still cheesy and full of holes.

I was reading this story and decided to do my own tests and they were spot on…

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I downloaded this today and was playing with it. This version is supposed to have the process isolation; running the processes in separate functions. And for the most part, I think it’s a bit snappier.

I did tests on loading various websites; I was using Firefox, Opera and Chrome [...] I don’t even bother with Internet Explorer anymore; it’s a waste of my time.

Chrome was loading the slowest. Loading or refreshing the same page wasn’t producing good responsiveness. It was about a second or two slower that Firefox and Opera.

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The development of Firefox is moving forward, and thus far, everything is looking smooth. Mozilla’s efforts to publish a 64-bit web browser seems to be getting closer to fruition. The development of minefield has been building over the past couple of years.

While other web browsers are floundering in the 32-bit world of web browsing, Mozilla has been developing minefield. While minefield has been slowly progressing, one of the things that was seriously holding it back was the lack of the flash player from Adobe.

But now the HTML 5 has been introduced, it looks as though Adobe’s flash player may not be such a requirement after all.

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As an interesting folly, everyone knows that Firefox is developed and used upon multiple platforms. The appealing nature of Firefox is that it’s the same application, plug-ins are consistent across different operating systems and the behavior of the application should be the same.

But if your an user that’s used to using Firefox in the Windows operating system and then you migrate, or start using Ubuntu with Firefox, you’ll notice a strange missing behavior from Firefox.

One of the basic functions of the browser is to be able to press the backspace key and go to the previous page, but for some reason, in Ubuntu 9.10, this function is disabled.

Here’s how you fix that…

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