Firefox Experiments I Would Have Liked to Try

Re:Firefox Experiments I Would Have Liked to Try by tempguy9999 on Monday March 04, 2019 @04:49PM (#19305930)

"you are about to open 2,800 tabs, this may take some time, are you sure you want to continue?" Or a similar message I got a few days ago. Been spending time cleaning them up. Yep, I open a lot of tabs. I'd long ago have run out of memory but I never enable JScript, which seems to be what eats memory (palemoon on windows FYI).

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Re:Firefox Experiments I Would Have Liked to Try by ddoolin on Monday March 04, 2019 @05:24PM (#19306213)

I don't know if you meant JavaScript or not, but JScript is an actual thing that is (somewhat) separate from JavaScript, commonly abbreviated as JS.

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Re:Firefox Experiments I Would Have Liked to Try by gpm on Monday March 04, 2019 @05:47PM (#19306435)

> A lot of people think that JScript and JavaScript are different but similar languages. That's not the case. They are just different names for the same language, and the reason the names are different was to get around trademark issues.

Douglas Crockford via Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JScript

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Re:Firefox Experiments I Would Have Liked to Try by ddoolin on Tuesday March 05, 2019 @12:07PM (#19312027)

Yes, and the following paragraph goes on to note differences and even calls his statement "not completely true". At one point it may have been more true than it is now.

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Re:Firefox Experiments I Would Have Liked to Try by tempguy9999 on Monday March 04, 2019 @05:50PM (#19306462)

I genuinely did not know that! I've always presumed JS = JScript = JavasSript = ECMAscript. Hmm. In this case I meant the native scripting in palemoon (which is an FX fork I believe).

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