HTTP compression is one of the easiest and most effective ways to improve the performance of a web site. A browser indicates that it supports compression with the Accept-Encoding request header and the server
indicates the compression type in the Content-Encoding response header.
This screenshot from the Stream tab of HttpWatch shows these headers and the compressed content being returned [...]
The 64-bit version of Windows Vista is becoming increasing popular due to its ability to access more than 4 GB of physical memory. To an ordinary Windows user, there are few noticeable differences from the 32-bit version because it can run both 32-bit and 64-bit programs.
In this post we wanted to answer some of the [...]
One of the interesting new features in Google’s Chrome browser is the use of one Windows process per site or tab. This helps to enforce the isolation between tabs and prevents a problem in one tab crashing the whole browser.
In comparison, Firefox seems to have a simplistic process model on Windows. It doesn’t matter how many tabs or windows [...]