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Lifehacker do a simple and "unscentific" speed test between most user browsers: Internet Explorer 7.0.6, Safari 3.1.1, Opera 9.5 and Mozilla Firefox 3 RC3; the system for the test is a Windows Vista (32 bit) machine with an Intel core duo2GHz) processor and 2 GB of RAM. On the whole the best browser is Opera 9.5: it is the faster at startup-time and in javascript test and second in multi-tab load time, CSS test, and memory usage with 8 tabs open. Firefox 3 RC3 win the test of memory use, this is a real improvement compared with the previous version of firefox. See the test.

  The 17 June 2008 is the date for the launch of Firefox 3.

What is a daemon:

in Unix and other multitasking operative systems, a daemon is a computer programs that runs in the background; they run without the direct control of a user.

In linux, or in any generic unix-like operating system, a daemon is usually initiated as process and its "parent process" is the init process. The usual way that allow to process to became a daemon is to create a child process, with the function fork, and then to force the exit of parent process, thus the init process will adopt the child process.

In linux there are wo ways " to daemonize" a program (or process):

1. use the function daemon, see the manpage daemon(3) for details;
2. develop a function that daemonize your personal program.

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Read It later is a firefox’s plugin that allow you to save temporarily an article or a page, to read after. With this plugins you can add the saved pages on your bookmarks or delete it, if the link is not interesting. Moreover you can save the links in the website of social boomark, like delicious.

A very interesting article about hack a "web 2.0 and ajax website": the artcle on securityfocus.