Some of you may have noticed that the Firefox 3 nightly builds have felt a lot snappier since a few weeks ago.  There’s an interesting story in that, one that I finally have time to write up.  We’ve had a number of bugs on the Mac where people were complaining of bad performance compared to [...]

I’ve recently rediscovered Greasemonkey, and have used it to make two small fixes that have been annoying me for a while.  A few people have asked, so I thought I’d share the user scripts.  The first does some postprocessing of the tinderbox waterfall page, shrinking the Talos columns by making them use more of the [...]

So it turns out, now that Alice got the awesome nochrome tinderboxes up and running, that the Mac, on raw HTML layout, is about as fast as Windows.  However, on win32 and linux, when you add in the perf hit of drawing the full browser UI (the nochrome boxes just render the HTML in a [...]

I just finished Uncharted: Drake’s Fortune for the PS3.  Overall, a very well done game; felt a lot like the Tomb Raider series, but with more shooting and fewer puzzles.  I tend to prefer the opposite mix, but with the difficulty set to Easy, the shooting bits weren’t annoying.  The story is pretty good, and [...]

One of the things that’s always been different between the Windows and MacOS X versions of Firefox is favicons on the bookmarks toolbar — Windows has ‘em, the Mac doesn’t.  I think the origins of this are from Safari’s decision to not include them, but I’m not really sure.  Either way, this drove me nuts… [...]