The “Break it Down” Blog

HTC Hero Review Uncovers Prominent Performance Issues

Engadget Mobile put up their (excellent) review of the HTC Hero recently and I got a lot of information out of that review that I hadn’t gotten anywhere else. More specifically the following highlights: Hardware – The hardware in the HTC Hero was rumored at one point to be improved upon the HTC Magic, that form [...]

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Stop Your iPhone Browser From Forgetting Cookies

Do you have a JailBroken iPhone and it drives you bat-shit that every single time you open Safari on the iPhone to browser to your favorite site, check your email, load up Google Reader, etc. you have to re-login and it doesn’t seem to remember your cookies from particular sites? Well iRemember is here to help [...]

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Firefox 3 Beta 2 Impressions: Awesome

ZDNet gave their impressions of the recently released Firefox 3 Beta 2 release and so far the comments are suggest the same thing: The memory and performance enhancements are awesome. Word on the street is that it’s snappy as hell, uses anywhere from 1/2 to 1/4 the memory Firefox 2 used, and is overall looking like [...]

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Memory Usage: Firefox 2 vs Firefox 3

We’ve covered some very interesting articles in the past about some of the work going into improving the memory usage of Firefox 3 as Firefox 2 is currently a fat pig. Well it looks like Adrian over at ZDNet took the new Firefox 3 Beta 1 release out for a test drive with some relatively subjective [...]

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Sun Rewrites Java Plugin

Grant Gochnauer sent in this kick-ass news; looks like Sun has completely rewritten the Java Browser Plugin as part of the new Consumer JRE work (now called Update N or something). The changes include: Improved scripting support (java/javascript integration is better) Improved reliability Supports more powerful applets (applets can ask for more memory) Better windows vista support (signed applets) Enterprise features [...]

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