Weekend tech reading: A love-hate relationship with Firefox

[princeton]

Wow Anandtech missed the boat on cheap WQHD monitors. You've been able to get the S-IPS Yamakasi Catleap from Korea for a long time now at slightly over $300.

 

[Matthew DeCarlo]

How did Anand miss the boat? Their article mentions the Korean units, including the brand you noted.

 

[Puiu]

As long as Chrome and Opera don't have the great developer tools that firefox has I won't switch. I use all the browsers for developing, ff is still my main.

 

[Scshadow]

My firefox has only given me problems with the latest flash. Flash 11.3 and firefox = crash. Especially on dual monitor setups. Full screen video paused on one screen and any click on second screen = 100% crash rate. And its not just the flash plugin that would crash but the whole firefox process would be stuck "not responding". Downgraded flash to 10.3 and its smooth sailing.

 

[fimbles]

Still an internet explorer user, Maybe its my old eyes... but the text seems washed out and slightly blurry in firefox.

 

[tw0rld]

Now using opera for browsing. Firefox for development. I hate those constant flash player crashes in firefox, that forced me to make the switch.

 

[Dustyn]

Opera is not a "better alternative" if you need a lightweight browser.

Seems pretty light to me? Loads fast and is remarkably stable. But I then I also have a fast PC.

 

[oldikes]

meh. lightweight isnt exactly linear to speed, but the simpler it is, the better for some of us.

 

[nismo91]

using waterfox here. still have IE9 and Chrome for backup browser (when I am trying to sign in to different email address under same domain)

 

[princeton]

How did Anand miss the boat? Their article mentions the Korean units, including the brand you noted.

Well that's the point. Why write about a $4xx dollar one when you've been able to get the same panels for $300 for quite some time. They even mentioned that they reviewed one from achieva a little while back.

 

[Matthew DeCarlo]

Are you just trying to be difficult? From the Anand article:

Many consumers are not entirely comfortable ordering expensive gadgets off eBay. The absence of a budget offering from a US-based company in this space has been disappointing, but Nixeus is now stepping up to fill this void... We find that the monitor has a number of connectivity options which are not available in the Achieva / Catleap / Yamakasi units (which just use DL-DVI)...