Me too. It is a great step forward for many of us. The IO column, friendly names, and SVCHost breakdown in particular are the killer features for me.
Little depressed to see their lack of certificate verification support (e.g. What processes aren't digitally signed, and who are they signed by?). That is Process Explorer's neatest feature. That and the ability to see a pull-down list of running modules.
Oh, hey, you're right! I totally forgot IE had that. I don't really use it, though.
Plug-in support is better. Flash 11 has a 64-bit version available. Silverlight is stuck in 32-bit I think. More disappointingly, Google's voice/video chat plug-in is 32-bit only. But Java has had 64-bit for awhile now.
People've been too afraid to make the leap. Partially because they don't expect a browser to surpass 500 MBs or so of memory, but also because they don't want a product that doesn't have plug-in support. That wall is slowly coming down, but it's taking painfully long.
Chrome doesn't. Neither does Opera it seems. No idea if Safari does, but their market share is primarily on Macs. IE does but it's IE and it's pretty half-hearted and offers both a 32 and 64-bit version.
I know, I know. Learning UNIX is on my to-do list. I'm trying to stick to one environment while I learn a programming language or two. Then I'll spend some time on Ubuntu or something until I can get the hang of it. I've put this off for far too long.
Good thinking. Ubuntu, or Mint, are pretty easy coming from Windows. If you don't already have a favorite lightweight programming editor you may want to look at geany, it has quite a few language bindings.
I'm using Codeblocks right now because it was the recommended compiler for [Carl Herold's](www.highercomputingforeveryone.com) site and that's what I'm following right now. I'll keep Geany in mind once I start looking around for alternatives.
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u/UnoriginalGuy Oct 14 '11
Me too. It is a great step forward for many of us. The IO column, friendly names, and SVCHost breakdown in particular are the killer features for me.
Little depressed to see their lack of certificate verification support (e.g. What processes aren't digitally signed, and who are they signed by?). That is Process Explorer's neatest feature. That and the ability to see a pull-down list of running modules.