[blecch]

Firefox almost seems fast considering the glacially slow rate that pages load in Safari 5.

[blecch]

RobLewis, on 11 July 2011 - 07:12 AM, said:

I've become so annoyed by Safari's sluggishness and appetite for RAM (after running it for a few days, I can close all browser windows and still have a 2GB RAM footprint!) that if Firefox added a couple of features (Reader and Top Sites come to mind), I'd probably switch.

I can't believe this has happened, but I finally switched to Firefox for loading sets of tabs - it seems to be about twice as fast as Safari 5 to load ten pages using "open all in tabs."

[whitedog]

NaOH, on 11 July 2011 - 05:29 AM, said:

ChrisLicata, on 11 July 2011 - 04:42 AM, said:

Personally I think the "virtually identical to FF4" is a good thing, why force users to relearn a browser after only a couple months.

It seems that there are even fewer game-stopping differences between FF5 and FF6. All the extensions that I have used in FF5 work fine in the current beta of FF6.

To me it's starting to look like Mozilla's change in how they approach version numbering is mainly window dressing.

Indeed, it's probably more pointless than window dressing. In their quest for a new approach to distinguish their browser, they's copied the very worst of what Chrome has to offer. How stupid is that? This time around Microsoft won't have to use underhanded tactics to beat Mozilla. Mozilla is self-distructing on their own, without any outside help. It's as if they borrowed a page from RIM's playbook on how to ruin a good thing.

[UmarOMC]

Started using the 8.0a1 Nightly build after reading this: http://www.extremete...tches-chrome-14

Been using it for a few hours now- hella fast.

[UmarOMC]

whitedog, on 11 July 2011 - 04:31 AM, said:

After all these years and it still can't pass the ACID3 test. Pretty lame. And the accelerated release schedule is going to disenfranchise a lot of business users. It's hard to see what trade-off they think is going to make this worthwhile. They'll just drive enterprise back to Internet Explorer, which has a far more IT friendly upgrade schedule.

WHO CARES about the Acid 3 test!? Name ONE SITE that makes use of all those things tested for! ...and IE does the WORST on Acid 3! If the Acid 3 test REALLY concerns anyone to the point they'll lose sleep over it then use Safari and call it a day!

[whitedog]

UmarOMC, on 12 July 2011 - 03:50 AM, said:

whitedog, on 11 July 2011 - 04:31 AM, said:

After all these years and it still can't pass the ACID3 test. Pretty lame. And the accelerated release schedule is going to disenfranchise a lot of business users. It's hard to see what trade-off they think is going to make this worthwhile. They'll just drive enterprise back to Internet Explorer, which has a far more IT friendly upgrade schedule.

WHO CARES about the Acid 3 test!? Name ONE SITE that makes use of all those things tested for! ...and IE does the WORST on Acid 3! If the Acid 3 test REALLY concerns anyone to the point they'll lose sleep over it then use Safari and call it a day!

Attitude much?

[seberkuhn]

Just when will one of these rapidly "improving" versions of Firefox hold still long enough for Adobe to come out with an add-on to read pdf inside the browser?

[dmwingon]

I'm still using Firefox 3.6.19. I tried upgrading to 4 and then to 5, and had the same problem with both: I could install as many new addons as I wanted, but on restarting Firefox, none of the things I'd installed were there. I'm glad they built in a tab groups feature, and I wish I could use one of the newer versions of the browser for it, because the addon I have for grouping tabs is wonderful, but somewhat buggy. Also, if I wanted my Firefox to look like Chrome, I'd just use Chrome (except not, because I can only open 40 tabs total in Chrome, which is insufficient).

Most of my Firefox experience is built around not using the default Firefox behaviors, actually. I only have a handful of bookmarks in each of my browsers, and instead save everything I care about in Google Bookmarks, with a shortcut to mark things in my bookmarks toolbar. I ended up doing this after an earlier bug with Firefox (several years ago now) completely wiped my entire bookmark list from the browser. I don't trust programs; programs can break or get corrupted or lose data. I do trust storing my data online, on a site that definitely isn't going anywhere anytime soon.

[johnpaul]

why can't I used moozilla firefox 4.0 beta7 on shared computer?