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Originally Posted by slowcoach
Windows/Firefox starts caching links when you enter a page, if you have enough memory and sit back a while when you enter the page then when you click the link the file will download (from cache) instantly. Now lets think about this, all this cached data is added to your download bandwidth, even if you don't click the link,  not good.
Firefox/Linux does not cache links in the same way, so with Linux you can download more each month for the same bandwidth usage.
Windows tends to throw memory at everything in an effort to make up for its inadequacies.  |
Erm, purely out of interest what does Windows have to do with Firefox pre-fetching (which by the way happens on *nix as well as Windows, as astonishingly enough it's the same source code). I hope your bloke in the pub is better informed about ntl (he's wrong about your other point by the way) than you are about Firefox implementations.
Not entirely sure either what the above has to do with Windows munching memory to make up for its' inadequacies, whatever it's still a far more complete and mature desktop OS than any *nix variety, and all OSes cache content from hard drive to memory, this is why *nix and Windows have page files and .dll / lib caches
Upgrades in September?!?! Vapourware dude. That was
never a consideration, before you say that any delay is due to upgrades not being finished on time. September was never even considered as a possibility.
Just saying that to save people on 30th of Sept saying 'Bloody ntl where's my upgrade the bloke in the pub promised me?'. Also correcting some of the typical *nix zealot Win bashing.