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www.dailymail.co.uk 13y ago

Chinese man keeps himself alive for 13 years with HOMEMADE dialysis machine

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www.techuser.net 13y ago

Why the World Needs a New Search Interface

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www.techuser.net 13y ago

Beyond Google Chrome

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spectrum.ieee.org 14y ago

Transistor Wars

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www.fastcodesign.com 14y ago

Why Do We Hold Fast To Losing Strategies?

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gizmodo.com 15y ago

Firefox is dead: Firefox 4 startup slower than Firefox 3.6

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www.gadling.com 15y ago

Italian Cuisine in Rome: Made in China

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www.core77.com 15y ago

What exactly can Apple's new Liquidmetal do?

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addons.mozilla.org 16y ago

Firefox Addon with Tab Candy like functionality

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online.wsj.com 16y ago

Are Designer Sunglasses Worth the Price?

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mashable.com 16y ago

Teens Experiencing Facebook Fatigue

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www.xaprb.com 16y ago

SQL coding standards

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communities-dominate.blogs.com 16y ago

IPhone marketshare has peaked

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thenextweb.com 16y ago

Apple’s Third Co-Founder Sold 10% Of Apple For $800

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youarenotsosmart.com 16y ago

Taste Tests

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communities-dominate.blogs.com 16y ago

Smartphone Evolution: US vs. Rest of the World

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www.core77.com 16y ago

Jonathan Ive on the design of the iPhone 4

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techcrunch.com 16y ago

Xobni Goes Back In Time With Boxed Software

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riastats.com 16y ago

RIA stats

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armorgames.com 16y ago

LightBot 2.0 is out

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www.fastcompany.com 16y ago

America's Entrepreneurial Edge Over Europe

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www.gamasutra.com 16y ago

Farmville, Top Facebook Games Continue To Shed Users

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www.informationisbeautiful.net 16y ago

How little musicians earn online

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listverse.com 16y ago

11 Brain-Twisting Paradoxes

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www.businessweek.com 16y ago

Data Mining Helps Hospitals Pry Fees from Patients

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idlewords.com 16y ago

Dabblers and Blowhards

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technet.microsoft.com 16y ago

How Microsoft Bob ended up being a part of every copy of Windows XP

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www.spiegel.de 16y ago

The Football stitchers of Sialkot

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chartsbin.com 16y ago

Charts Bin

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www.inc.com 16y ago

How to Write a Marketing Plan

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My add-on https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/categorize/ combines bookmarks and tab-management. It lets the user group bookmarks into sets that a user can open all at once or singly. This approach almost completely eliminates the need for an address bar.

Another interesting feature of the add-on is that it unifies bookmarks and web-search. The two seem totally disparate but they can be integrated seamlessly in a very cool way. Check http://techuser.net/beyond-chrome.html for an overview of the approach.

The Firefox teams seems to no longer care about add-ons and add-on users. I am an Add-on author. I submitted an updated version of my addon for Firefox 8 on October 27. Twelve days later the new version is still sitting in a sandbox waiting editorial review. With a new release happening every 6 weeks this kind of behavior is inexcusable and will likely drive people away from Add-ons.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/categorize/

I beat the 350 MB by going to the Atlas Obscura website. Firefox managed to use up 550 MB with only a single tab open. This too after a clean start. Firefox just keeps on leaking memory when the Atlas Obscura website is open.

I hate saying this but Firefox 4 is shaping to be a disaster of epic proportions. The Javascript benchmarks are all nice and good but dear Mozilla folk you people also need to write a garbage collector for your implementation of Javascript that actually collects garbage.

Firefox 4 is a memory hog compared to Firefox 3.6. Worse, it leaks memory like a sieve. After a bit of browsing, it is using 350 MB with just a single tab open. Firefox 3.6 uses half that much memory on the same machine.