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CEO Chris Beard revealed in an interview with CNET that Mozilla may start offering "freemium" services in the near future:
There's another side as we start to look at products that we could potentially offer. Some of them start to look like services, exploring the freemium models. There'd be a free level always, but also some premium services offering.
That Yahoo! money has to run out at some point.
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* m2 stares at the monitor... it looks like a hamburger...
m2 - that's a bad sign
(Score: 5, Insightful) by anubi on Friday October 13 2017, @08:22AM (5 children)
I think a lot of this blame lays in webmasters linking a lot of crap into webpages with scripts. Even my phone is getting overloaded on a lot of modern pages, and when I began analyzing my own laptop because of slowness issues, it was the complexity of the webpage that was doing me in. I routinely get hung-up in YouTube now when javascripts attempt to load HD ads and HD video simultaneously.
I believe NoScript has bought me three or four more years of usability on my single_core 3GHz celeron.
Remember when you could surf the web on a 90 MHz Pentium just fine?
Now a days, I imagine Soylent News would be one of the very few sites that a 90MHz Pentium could still load.
These pages are nowhere as simple as they used to be, and they are growing yet more and more complex by the day.
"Prove all things; hold fast that which is good." [KJV: I Thessalonians 5:21]
(Score: 2, Insightful) by pTamok on Friday October 13 2017, @08:47AM (2 children)
The resource efficiency of Soylent News is one of the nice attributes of this site, in my opinion.
(Score: 2) by rylyeh on Friday October 13 2017, @11:14PM
+1 on that!
"a vast crenulate shell wherein rode the grey and awful form of primal Nodens, Lord of the Great Abyss."
(Score: 3, Insightful) by TheB on Monday October 16 2017, @09:40AM
and the site works perfectly without javascript.
Soylent can show/hide a comment tree or spoiler tag using css. No other site I visit can do that.
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Friday October 13 2017, @02:46PM
I recently revived a 133mhz Thinkpad, from 1996, and it is challenging to even get a browser to run on it--well, aside from what I had installed on it already (including IE, since that was baked in at the OS level...) Netscape Navigator did OK for many sites, but once it looks like its for a mobile and makes those giant background images and stuff that slides around, it can't handle it at all.
It's like the more mobile something is, the more poorly it peforms due to all of those javascripts that run trying to figure out how to best monetize the visitor. Most scripts just hang on it.
No script doesnt work on it because there is no browser that runs on it that can also run no script; most java scripts don't run either but whatever manages to run seems to hang a lot.
It used to be that a mobile view of a website was low bandwidth; now it takes more just based on the captures... constant refreshes, stuff set to do not cache... etc. oh and trying to load in 64MB of RAM--a whole lot for windows 98.
(Score: 2) by turgid on Friday October 13 2017, @06:06PM
486/33sx with MS-DOS 6.2 and Win 3.1. In fact, in those days, I was on gopher. Then the WWW appeared.
I refuse to engage in a battle of wits with an unarmed opponent [wikipedia.org].