[dba-Tech] FW: FW: FYI: Microsoft: Internet Explorer 10 Is The Most Energy-Efficient Browser, Uses Up To 18% Less Power Than Chrome And Firefox

Hans-Christian Andersen hans.andersen at phulse.com
Thu Jun 6 12:25:57 CDT 2013


Sounds like your son has a good head on his shoulders and is on the right track and early at that as well.

- Hans


On 2013-06-06, at 6:09 AM, "Rocky Smolin" <rockysmolin at bchacc.com> wrote:

> He's 16 and a self-described geek. Pretty fair programmer in his own right -
> Java, C, LUA. Does the software for the robotics teams at school and got
> himself a paid internship at General Atomics, which is close to home, doing
> nuclear fusion research - all code - simulations.  And a real BIG Linux fan,
> as well.  Sounds like he's on the same track as your boy.  (Popular saying
> here: the apple doesn't fall far from the tree.) But enough bragging.  
> 
> My only experience with IE10 wasn't good.  I have one client whose FE and BE
> I maintain on their server.  Remote access was set up by their network guy
> and the access did not work in FF.  So I used IE - IE9.  Then I got the
> upgrade to IE10 and found that 1) I the remote access work didn't work in
> IE10, and 2) I couldn't go back to IE9 without going back to a restore
> point.  Eventually I found the toolbar with the Browser Mode selection so I
> run ie10 in IE9 mode which I can't figure out how to set as a default so I
> have to select it every time I run IE.  PITA.  But all the reviews I've read
> of IE10 have been real good. Do you find any compatibility issues with IE10?
> Sites that don't work, etc.?
> 
> R
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
> [mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Salakhetdinov
> Shamil
> Sent: June 06, 2013 3:09 AM
> To: Discussion of Hardware and Software issues
> Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] FW: FW: FYI: Microsoft: Internet Explorer 10 Is The
> Most Energy-Efficient Browser, Uses Up To 18% Less Power Than Chrome And
> Firefox
> 
> Hi Rocky --
> 
> Thank you for your comment: your son seems to be fan of Mozilla-browser
> clones/forks, optimized and free of parental control ( I mean Pale Moon )
> but AFAIU he is a young adult so the latter couldn't be considered as an
> issue there :)
> 
>>  Still trying to get his old man to switch from FF to Chrome.
> Go directly to IE10! :)
> 
> -- Shamil
> 
> Wednesday, June  5, 2013 5:51 PM -07:00 from "Rocky Smolin"
> <rockysmolin at bchacc.com>:
>> My son's response to the article.  But he's a fan of all things Google. 
>> :)
>>  
>> Still trying to get his old man to switch from FF to Chrome.
>>  
>> Rocky
>>  
>> 
>>   _____
>> 
>> From: Noah Sutton Smolin [mailto:noahsutsmo at gmail.com]
>> Sent: June 05, 2013 5:12 PM
>> To: Rocky Smolin
>> Subject: Re: FW: [dba-Tech] FYI: Microsoft: Internet Explorer 10 Is The 
>> Most Energy-Efficient Browser, Uses Up To 18% Less Power Than Chrome 
>> And Firefox
>> 
>> 
>> Ah, marketing teams, doing wonderful dimensional analysis on 
>> meaningless statistics.
>> 
>> 
>> Though if IE10 is faster, there may be minor advantages. Still, I don't 
>> have much of a problem with Pale Moon or Iceweasel, and they sync well, 
>> so I see no serious issue. Microsoft came into the browser speed battle 
>> a little too late.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> On Wed, Jun 5, 2013 at 3:43 PM, Rocky Smolin < rockysmolin at bchacc.com >
> wrote:
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From:  dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
>> [mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of 
>> Salakhetdinov Shamil
>> Sent: June 05, 2013 12:47 PM
>> To: Discussion of Hardware and Softw
>> Subject: [dba-Tech] FYI: Microsoft: Internet Explorer 10 Is The Most 
>> Energy-Efficient Browser, Uses Up To 18% Less Power Than Chrome And 
>> Firefox
>> 
>>  " If everybody switched from Chrome and Firefox to Internet Explorer 
>> 10 on Windows 8, we could save enough energy  to power 10,000 U.S. 
>> households , a new study ( PDF ) commissioned by Microsoft says..."
>> 
>> http://techcrunch.com/2013/06/05/microsoft-internet-explorer-10-is-the-
>> most- < 
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>> :)
>> 
>> --
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