Why you should dump IE.

Originally Posted by towny

Yes, which poses a potential problem ... will 10.4 offer further performance improvements for older machines or have we reached a point where the newest version of the OS is going to be just too much for them? Should I buy 10.3 while I can, or wait and risk finding out that 10.4 requires a G4, thereby leaving me stuck with 10.2.8 forever with no way of getting a 10.3 CD?

Still OT, sorry

http://www.geekpatrol.ca/archives/20...pantherand.php


I will try my best to make sense of this



10.4 is faster in all areas of testing expect User interface (which is actually what makes a difference as a slow UI makes the whole thing look slow) now these would APPEAR to mean that you should wait for 10.4. But I have heard that tiger needs faster computers (the test computer was a g5) so I would recommend getting 10.3 now! to be safe (and to experance a speed boost and a newer better OS) and then if you REALLY need 10.4 you can still get it.

Summary

1. 10.3 is (apparently) faster than 10.2 on slow macs and gives them a speed boost although i cannot confirm this
2. 10.4 is faster than tiger but only only fast macs so far
3. 10.4 out in 2005

Originally Posted by Damien

http://www.geekpatrol.ca/archives/20...pantherand.php


I will try my best to make sense of this



10.4 is faster in all areas of testing expect User interface (which is actually what makes a difference as a slow UI makes the whole thing look slow) now these would APPEAR to mean that you should wait for 10.4. But I have heard that tiger needs faster computers (the test computer was a g5) so I would recommend getting 10.3 now! to be safe (and to experance a speed boost and a newer better OS) and then if you REALLY need 10.4 you can still get it.

Summary

1. 10.3 is (apparently) faster than 10.2 on slow macs and gives them a speed boost although i cannot confirm this
2. 10.4 is faster than tiger but only only fast macs so far
3. 10.4 out in 2005

thanks for all your work! Other friends who have gone from 10.2 to 10.3 have said that there is an improvement for slower machines, so I think we can take that as fact. I'm interested in what you're saying about 10.4 - that it's just the UI that'll slow it down - because of course there's always the option of switching animated effects off. That would still be a pity because I quite like the genie animation for minimizing/maximizing windows! I think I will get 10.3 before the end of the year and then wait for other people to give their feedback on 10.4 before I decide whether to risk it.

Well the UI is important to me as if thats slow it gives the whole impression that the computer is slow. I know you can scale back but i hate doing that you need to see if it is worth getting 10.4 and scaling back. Here is the stuff in tiger: http://www.apple.com/uk/macosx/tiger/

If i was you i would get 10.3 then let that be that until your next mac

[Mal]

Originally Posted by greencreeper

I'm more interested in Google's autofill function for web forms - saves a lot of typing. Firefox didn't seem to have this capability.

There's a new extension for autofill now. I don't know if it's any good though.

[Richard M]

I find the BBCode extension handy.
Firefox: http://update.mozilla.org/extensions...=Miscellaneous
Mozilla: http://update.mozilla.org/extensions...=Miscellaneous

[greencreeper]

Originally Posted by Mal

There's a new extension for autofill now. I don't know if it's any good though.

Thanks. Added it to my extensive Favorites. If I try Firefox again in the future I'll download it.

Interesting that there's an RFC for the naming of form fields in e-commerce - http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3106.txt I didn't know that. Made a note to read up. I dunno - pace of change is scary.