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Pages in the page cache modified after being brought in are called dirty pages. [5] Since non-dirty pages in the page cache have identical copies in secondary storage (e.g. hard disk drive or solid-state drive), discarding and reusing their space is much quicker than paging out application memory, and is often preferred over flushing the dirty pages into secondary storage and reusing their space.
Screenshot showing Wikipedia website running in a site-specific browser window created by Fluid on Mac OS X Web (previously called Epiphany) on GNOME. A site-specific browser (SSB) is a software application that is dedicated to accessing pages from a single source (site) on a computer network such as the Internet or a private intranet.
A number of proprietary software products are available for saving Web pages for later use offline.They vary in terms of the techniques used for saving, what types of content can be saved, the format and compression of the saved files, provision for working with already saved content, and in other ways.
Major page faults on conventional computers using hard disk drives can have a significant impact on their performance, as an average hard disk drive has an average rotational latency of 3 ms, a seek time of 5 ms, and a transfer time of 0.05 ms/page. Therefore, the total time for paging is near 8 ms (= 8,000 μs).
Brotli's new file format allows its authors to improve upon Deflate by several algorithmic and format-level improvements: the use of context models for literals and copy distances, describing copy distances through past distances, use of move-to-front queue in entropy code selection, joint-entropy coding of literal and copy lengths, the use of graph algorithms in block splitting, and a larger ...
Safari browser, plus all browsers for iOS; [3] GNOME Web, Konqueror, Orion: Blink: Active Google: GNU LGPL, BSD-style: Google Chrome and all other Chromium-based browsers including Microsoft Edge, Brave, Vivaldi, Huawei Browser, Samsung Browser, and Opera [4] Gecko: Active Mozilla: Mozilla Public: Firefox browser and Thunderbird email client ...
webarchive is a Web archive file format available on macOS and Windows for saving and reviewing complete web pages using the Safari web browser. [1] The webarchive format differs from a standalone HTML file because it also saves linked files such as images, CSS , and JavaScript . [ 2 ]
The tables below compare notable lightweight web browsers. Several of them use a common layout engine , but each has a unique combination of features and a potential niche. The minimal user interface in surf , for example, does not have tabs , [ 4 ] whereas xombrero can be driven with vi -like keyboard commands.