Recent content by natmaster

I've been waiting for this a long time. Also, Java has had 64 bit version for many, many years. Toms gets it wrong again. What has happened to your fact checking department?

Browser-retestingIt is hard to know the validity of his own benchmark other than self-promotional, but I ran the test on a few of the browsers on my computer (a plain jane Core2Duo 3GHz) using Win7 x64, and got slightly different numbers (I ran 3 times each but the variation in the trials was...

Disregard the comment about researchers from Microsoft. That paper is merely a citation by douglas crockford.

Also missing from this report: the researchers work for Microsoft.

Directly from the benchmark site linked to: JavaScript Performance (Smaller is better) Browser Seconds IE10 Chrome 10.0.648.205 2.801 4.9 Firefox 4.0.1 0.956 1.7 IE 9.0.8112.16421 64 1.159 2.0 IE 10.0.1000.16394 0.562 1.0 Opera 11.10 1.106 1.9 Safari 5.0.5 (7533.21.10) 0.984 1.7...

Google: be evil.

Microsoft is not sitting around. Maybe if you guys at toms would pay attention to what is going on in browsers you'd have better insights than your recent articles. The first IE 10 platform preview is already available...

What has happened to tomshardware? Seems like all the articles these days have horrible typos, unparsable sentences, and incorrect information. I've been reading toms for almost ten years and it used to be my favorite source of hardware information.

Under what's new, you end with, "Firefox also separates its tabs and processes, which means that a crashed plug-in only affects a new and not the entire browser." Putting aside that this sentence is not proper English, you are mistaken about Firefox's capabilities. It separates plugins from the...

Future version of Firefox will follow a 16 WEEK cycle, not months. http://people.mozilla.com/~sayrer/2011/temp/process.html