I had to turn off type-ahead find in Firefox 3 before it would work at all, and then it was really jerky. Hopefully this works a lot better for everyone else! posted by chrominance at 4:38 PM on July 15, 2008
Works OK for me in FF2, but the page mentions that Firefox 3 can have "garbage collection" hiccups, whatever that means. posted by chimaera at 4:40 PM on July 15, 2008
I love it when people do random, useless stuff like this. Pretty special... posted by ph00dz at 4:45 PM on July 15, 2008
you can't shoot?? How are you s'posed to "defend," then? posted by TechnoLustLuddite at 4:53 PM on July 15, 2008
hack of the week, for sure. love this.
(the linked vu meter idea was pretty great, too) posted by mrballistic at 4:53 PM on July 15, 2008
oh, i guess you're supposed to run into the landers with your shield. posted by TechnoLustLuddite at 4:56 PM on July 15, 2008
heh, i'm totally blind! (probably from staring at that tiny screen)
Okay bear with me for a minute... a few months back I figured out how to turn firefox into a movie theater, this favicon thing reminded me of the idea.
If you open up each one of the links below in a new tab and then press and hold Ctrl Tab to cycle through the tabs you'll see what it was like to ride the T in Boston two years ago during the Boston Marathon. It's worth the work... I promise (might be best to close this window once you have them all up for a continuous loop and then press Ctrl Tab slowly to really see whats going on!).
I'm blind now, but that was great. posted by cashman at 5:12 PM on July 15, 2008
There used to be a tiny space invaders you could play in a systray icon, but it looks like the site is defunct now. posted by mr_crash_davis at 5:15 PM on July 15, 2008
Completely awesome. posted by tits mcgee at 5:16 PM on July 15, 2008
Works OK for me in FF2, but the page mentions that Firefox 3 can have "garbage collection" hiccups, whatever that means.
posted by chimaera at 4:40 PM on July 15
A "garbage collector" is an invisible helper program that recognizes memory that is no longer being used for its original purpose and prepares that memory to be reused for another purpose.
Back in the old days, when memory was no longer useful to a program, the program would just immediately tell the operating system "I'm done with this" and the OS would reclaim the memory. This would happen one chunk at a time, so users didn't notice any delays. But with programs helped by a garbage collector, the programmer doesn't bother himself with when the memory is no longer useful; the garbage collector is supposed to eventually recognize and take care of that situation. But the garbage collector does its job only intermittently, so it has a backlog of many chunks to clear, all at once- and that can cause perceptible delays. posted by Jpfed at 5:20 PM on July 15, 2008
I thought that T animation was going to be the stop-motion advertising thing from the Red Line. posted by DU at 5:31 PM on July 15, 2008
pwally, you really should have put a rickroll in #28. posted by anthill at 5:41 PM on July 15, 2008
HAHA anthill that's genius, I need an edit button. posted by pwally at 5:59 PM on July 15, 2008
A "garbage collector" is an invisible helper program that recognizes memory that is no longer being used for its original purpose and prepares that memory to be reused for another purpose.
I figured it was something like that, Jpfed. posted by chimaera at 6:09 PM on July 15, 2008
Remember Archie and Mehitabel? Archie would have loved it! (Although keyboard combinations would be a problem for him....) posted by Kronos_to_Earth at 4:43 AM on July 16, 2008
even if the game is unplayable.
Why do you say it is unplayable? I thought it was fun. posted by cashman at 6:38 AM on July 16, 2008
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