Tag: Google Chrome
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Switching to Opera
When I first started using it, Google’s Chrome browser seemed like a huge leap forward: a thread for each open tab, what’s not to like about that? Latterly, though it has felt more and more like a drag: run it for any length of time and your computer will thrash or even freeze as it…
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How to get a job as a developer
Last night I went to a Birkbeck training session for prospective mentors. I did not realise before I turned up that all, or almost all, the would-be mentors would be MSc Computer Science graduates. In the end that fact alone turned what could have been a pretty dull way to spend a Friday night into…
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Time to ditch Firefox?
Just about every internet user, even if they have never used Firefox, owes the Mozilla Foundation an enormous amount for the creation of Firefox. It’s injection of competition back into the mass browser market stimulated a new drive towards standards and speed that has made a huge difference to all users: Internet Explorer 6 came…
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