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Submission + - Opera 9.5 beats Firefox and IE7 as fastest browser (arstechnica.com)

Submitted by Abhinav Peddada on Thursday September 06, 2007 @10:46AM

Abhinav Peddada writes: ars technica takes the latest from Opera's stable — Opera 9.5 for a test run and finds some interesting results, including it being a "solid improvement to an already very strong browser". On performace front, ars technica reports "Opera 9.5 scored slightly higher (281ms) than the previous released version, 9.23 (546ms). And Opera 9.x, let it be known, smacks silly the likes of Firefox and Internet Explorer, which tend to have results in the 900-1500ms range on this test machine (a 1.8 GHz Core 2 Duo with 2GB RAM). Opera was 50 percent faster on average than Firefox, and 100 percent faster than IE7 on Windows Vista, for instance."

Submission + - First look: Firefox 3 alpha 5 (pcworld.com)

Submitted by abhinav_pc on Friday June 08, 2007 @12:43PM

abhinav_pc writes: PC World is reporting that Mozilla today made an early testing release of its Firefox 3 browser available for download, and this alpha version (code-named Gran Paradiso) for the first time adds the anticipated Places feature for bookmarks. Firefox 3 alpha 5 also features a new password manager. A new crash reporting system called Breakpad is also now available in some Mac OS X and Windows builds but is not yet supported on Linux.

Submission + - Firefox going the big and bloated IE way?

Submitted by abhinav_pc on Thursday May 17, 2007 @11:49AM

abhinav_pc writes: Wired is carrying an article on Firefox becoming big and bloated much like its bête noire competetor, IE. From the article: "... with Firefox 3.0 poised for release this summer, the "IE killer" is in danger of morphing into an early Fat Elvis ...

Comment Re:Suggestions (Score 1) 222

by abhinav_pc on Friday June 17, 2005 @02:13AM (#12839213) Attached to: Agile Web Development with Ruby on Rails

Try OpenACS. It is an open source (GNU GPL) toolkit for building scalable, community-oriented web applications. Oracle and PostgreSQL are the supported back-end databases and the programming language is TCL/TK. The developer community is almost 9000 strong which is very helpful. The toolkit is very mature and is useful to build community-based websites quickly and has a host of advantages over other similar systems.

More information about the toolkit can be found at the OpenACS website "What is OpenACS" section and on my personal website - About OpenACS. A quick comparision of the CMS applications available can be found at www.cmsmatrix.org (Link to Google's cache as the site doesn't actually have the comparision feature anymore now! Maybe you need to register?!)

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