Thursday, August 20, 2009

Firefox vs Chrome


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Google browser is out for about a year now, and google used its fame to distribute the browser, you could notice it easily at their sites, which offer links like running faster on chrome ,or try chrome and so on, anyway i am not going to offer a new comparison cause others offers a good ones already:
http://www.pcworld.com/article/150828/browser_battle_firefox_31_vs_chrome_vs_ie_8.html
http://www.techradar.com/news/internet/web/tested-google-chrome-vs-ie8-vs-firefox-3-1-462848

But personally i believe chrome itself is a big mistake, being dominant in searching does not mean you are going to success in browsers market, also i think it was a lot better if google supported firefox instead of developing it's own browser, well

Why firefox is superior?

Simply cause it have add-ins, everyone could write an add-in adding function to the browser, go and search in add-ins you will find a lot more than what you can imagine, so that its simply collect the best of all browsers, for example safary coming from a progress bar in address bar, its nice, someone could switch to safary for that(some like eye candy), then firefox simply can go and pick an add-in adding the same thing to firefox, Internet explorer 7 colored the address, an add-in can do the same for firefox, so its not about its always the better browser but its about every time something neat appear in browsers market, someone add it to firefox by an add-in which i believe will keep firefox the best for a while, for sure without a good structure for the browser core it was not going to work out , but firefox have a good enough core to stay the best. so im going to stay with firefox and getting add-ins adding the new features which other browsers offer, and ill try to discuss the useful firefox add ins at the next topics (with ALLAH well), :)

Tuesday, August 11, 2009

Check RAM from USB!

A lot of PC problems could have RAM as a suspicious, any fault in RAM could lead to application crash or even totally OS crash, so we need frequently to test RAM, out of fake applications which just show a progress bar running and no more, there is a tool really do the job which is memtest86+
here it is a few steps to get a bootable flash drive can run this tool, and do your test with.
1-you will need to a usb drive any size even 64 mb flash memory will do the job.
2-You will need to HP usb desk storage format tool (This tool working with all flash types not HP only, and it can format in ntfs and make the flash bootable)
3-Windows 98 boot disk.
4-memtest86+ for usb.

Now you have to extract the windows 98 boot disk files to a directory
Then, we have to format the flash drive using the HP usb desk storage format tool.




















Device: will be your flash device DOS system files location: will be where you extracted the Windows 98 Disk files

Now open the flash drive, it suppose to have these files:










Now extract the memtest86+ binary file from the downloaded zip file and copy it to the flash
its just one file named mt211.exe
so your flash root suppose to be like this now:









Now all what you have to do is reboot your machine, (make sure your first boot device is usb)
while your USB device is plugged, you will be into Win98 boot disk, now simply type mt211
and the ram tests will start( it could take sometime to finish all tests so try to do it while you don't need the machine).

Monday, August 10, 2009

Firefox 3.6

Firefox 3.6 at its alpha phase right now, but i would like to say its really promising,
you can install the alpha build(Namoroka) here:
https://developer.mozilla.org/devnews/index.php/2009/08/07/firefox-3-6-alpha-1-now-available-for-download/

some of the new features:
  • tabs preview(which is not enabled by default and you can enable it from about:config by setting browser.ctrlTab.previews to true)
  • Auto complete recommendations.
  • Better performance for java scripts.
  • Better Session Restore.












Simply its a really promising version, and i cannot wait to get the final build!.

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