FireFox 4 beta 7 is fast when it uses hardware graphics acceleration.
On my system it detected:
To find out if it detected yours, put about:support in the address bar and go to bottom of resulting page. This blog post has more information.
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When it comes time to search for a file on the local or networked file system you would think win7 would have advanced capabilities.
keywords: Windows 7, win7, search, keyword search
It does and it doesn’t. For what it does have, it is not exposed in the GUI. Yup, a graphical operating system interface does not present an easy way to do advanced searching. Anyway, below are links to articles that show you how to get access to this search capability. Many books supply the missing information too.
I’m surprised (not) that Windows help doesn’t really give the information.
Ok, I skimmed the docs below and I still don’t like it. How would I search for a file that has “yup” somewhere in its name and also has the text “foiled” but was also created a certain time period? In Windows XP that would be easy. In Linux I would use the “find” command and all its inscrutable switches.
Windows needs to have its file search redesigned. If I navigate to a folder, I want to be able to search for file content, just like every prior Windows version before it (I skipped Vista). Never mind all that indexing nonsense, Windows is a not a Mac.
If you want to use real search maybe it has to be by an external tool. Like Agent Ransack.
Links
Exploring Windows 7′s New Search Features (Part 3): http://www.windowsnetworking.com/articles_tutorials/Exploring-Windows-7s-New-Search-Features-Part3.html
Query Syntax: http://www.microsoft.com/windows/products/winfamily/desktopsearch/technicalresources/advquery.mspx
Exploring Windows 7’s New Search Features (Part 1): http://www.windowsnetworking.com/articles_tutorials/Exploring-Windows-7s-New-Search-Features-Part1.html
Exploring Windows 7′s New Search Features (Part 2): http://www.windowsnetworking.com/articles_tutorials/Exploring-Windows-7s-New-Search-Features-Part2.html
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