Nice App! Just wanted to know one thing. How are you retrieving data from Government's site. AFAIK, Indian Railways restricts such data, and this information can't be used commercially without their permission. Right?

I mean on some pages of the site it says that However, I am not sure how well they crack down on apps like this. If it becomes too much of a concern, I will take the advertisement out.

I just wanted to build something that will be useful without being rude on their site resources. For their site, the requests that come in are just like from any other client. This app do not put any extra burden on the site like crawling and such. Having said that, I agree that this a gray area.

Switching to Webkit isn't going to speed Firefox up. Gecko is very fast, especially now. As is SpiderMonkey. Firefox's biggest enemy when it comes to speed is add-ons -- which ironically is one of its best features.

Also, Chrome does definitely auto-update. It does it better than Firefox does (and I'm saying that as a Mozilla employee).

Give Firefox 8 (or 9 or 10 or 11, if you're into betas or nightlies) another chance, with a clean profile. I think you'll find it to be incredibly fast.

yeah, I use nightly as my default browser. It is faster than the Fx8, but not as the Chrome - even without add-ons.

I agree that add-ons are slowing down Firefox. I expect Jetpacks to overcome this problem, but it seems that add-on devs are not much happy with jetpacks/addon sdk.

>> Also, Chrome does definitely auto-update

I am talking about Chromium here

Chromium does have auto-update on linux, using system package management.

there are some third party tools for Windows to automate the process of installing newer version.

But we can't expect an end-user to use such things.

I find Chromium an uncomplete product. :( Also, it is not developed by the open-community.

Good point. time to say goodbye to Gecko.

ha ha.

acid3 has updated itself, firefox is right there.

Dear nddrylliog,

AFAIK, Firefox has not introduced any change in order to score 100% on Acid3. If you read this article (http://browserfame.com/212/firefox-acid3-test-100), you will come to know that the developer of Acid3 test has introduced few changes in order to "update" the test. On the updated Acid3 scale, Firefox scores 100%. This simply indicates that Mozilla was correct!

I agree with you: "If you take a Firefox 16 months old and run Acid3 on it now, it would score 100% - I think that's what he meant.".

I am unable to understand your comment: "read before you respond stupidly.". Can you please explain my stupidity?

(FYI: I am also associated with Mozilla for long, as a volunteer.)

You're doing that thing people do one the internet, when they see a disagreement that doesn't exist.

The poster wasn't contradicting asa at all, he was (a) laughing at asa's joke, and (b) trying to make his own.

Downvote him if you like for not contributing to the discussion, but your particular comment seemed completely unrelated to the content of his post.

I upvoted you. Not because I think what you said is insightful, but because your post serves as a textbook example of a person who not only doesn't see how stupid and trollish his own post is, but also dismisses all forms of legit criticism as fanboyism.

Oh and don't forget he's ranting about how this site is going down hill while contributing nothing and pretty much making this piece of the thread unpleasant.

There is a special category of such apps: packaged apps. Which are capable of running inside the browser - and even offline. The concept of webapp store is useful only for such types of apps. Google can't develop apps - it is developers' job (and opportunity). The concept is in its earlier stage, and you will see magic in coming days.

still, I will say that it is a victory for open source community!

Microsoft has been doing this for some time. Outsourcing and linking to services that people are using. Windows Live is integrated into a LOT of services. It's actually pretty nice. They plug into these systems that already exist, and leverage them for their own customers.

It's really smart.

I agree it's smart.

But that doesn't change the fact this platform is, from top to bottom, everything Microsoft has been criticizing and sabotaging for the past decade: GPL, Linux, MySQL...

It's like Google deciding to do search through Bing...

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