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Oxymoronical
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Oxymoronical is a personal blog at oxymoronical.com about programming and writing. Since 2007, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 7 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-08-01, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Linked for a post urging readers to try the Firefox 3 alpha. The one comment describes it as more stable than Firefox 2, with less memory use on JavaScript- and Flash-heavy pages.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
What Hacker News says?
I've been running the Firefox 3 alpha for a while now. It's gotten much more stable over the last couple weeks. I'm down to less than a crash a day now. I find Firefox 2 to be almost unusable because rendering lots of complex Javascript and Flash eats up an enormous amount of memory. Firefox 3's rendering engine is much better; I'd recommend everyone try it and see if it works for them. There are some other nice new…
Comment linking /web/firefox/nightly
on “If you haven't tried Firefox 3 yet, you should. It's fast.”Submitted Should [Firefox] developers charge for add-ons? as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Delivering Firefox features faster as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Hacking on Tilt (Firefox 3D view) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Managing changes is the key to a project’s success as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Notes from porting Mozilla Firefox to Palm webOS as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Getting Firefox running on the Palm Pre (mostly) as a story · 1 points
HN discussion
