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andrewducker ([personal profile] andrewducker) wrote2009-09-24 02:02 pm

My computer's too slow

[Poll #1461959]

You can't buy a computer nowadays that's too slow to run Word Processors/Spreadsheets/Web browsers on.

So what would you be able to do on your computer if it was faster that you can't now?

[identity profile] lpetrazickis.livejournal.com 2009-09-24 04:05 pm (UTC)(link)
Gmail and especially Facebook do special javascript things while you type. For example, Facebook's new @friend name feature requires it to watch for when you type the '@' character and present a dropdown menu when you do.

Making sure you are running the latest version of Firefox/Chrome/Safari/Opera helps, as they've all been doing a lot of work to make Javascript faster.