Gentleman tries to smoke and steal gas at the same time — it didn't end well

A 30-year-old gentleman tried to steal gas while smoking a cigarette but, predictably, his ill-conceived stunt blew up in his face.

The Washington man was siphoning gas from another person's vehicle when the gasoline caught fire, not only totaling the car but also damaging the siding of the victim's house. — Read the rest

Which Performs Better on Linux: Firefox or Chrome?

Phoronix compares the performance of Firefox and Chrome on the Linux desktop. They used recent releases (at default settings) for both browsers on an Intel Core i9 13900K "Raptor Lake" system with Radeon RX 6700XT graphics, concluding "out-of-the-box Google Chrome continues performing much better overall than Mozilla Firefox." One area where Firefox does better out-of-the-box is around the HTML5 Canvas such as measured via the CanvasMark test case. For the demanding JetStream 2 benchmark as one of the most demanding browser tests currently, Chrome on Linux was 67% faster than Firefox on this same Intel Raptor Lake desktop. Firefox did have a small win in the rather basic JavaScript Maze solver benchmark. Firefox at least was in a competitive space for the WebAssembly (WASM) benchmarks, but aside from that Google Chrome continues holding strong on Linux in the performance department.

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