[Noisebridge-discuss] Fwd: Looking to test Firefox on a netbook?

Al Billings albill at openbuddha.com
Fri Sep 18 04:56:03 UTC 2009


 From a coworker of mine at Mozilla. I thought some people might want  
a cheap netbook....

Begin forwarded message:

> For those of you interested in testing Firefox on a netbook, the  
> Dell Vostro A90 (same as Dell Mini 9, but all-black — looks better)  
> is on sale for $199 until Friday midnight.
>
> I just bought one myself (total $230 with tax and shipping included)  
> to have a dedicated machine to test:
> The upcoming Firefox 3.7 redesign on Windows 7 (it supports Aero  
> Glass!)
> The Firefox experience on small screen devices (1024×600)
> Using Firefox on CPU/memory-constrained devices (which is how I  
> found issues with our JS garbage collection earlier)
> There's no better thing for the performance of our product than  
> actually living with a CPU/mem-constrained device and use it day-to- 
> day, in my experience.
>
> It also runs Mac OS X, for those so inclined.

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