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Firefox 20 for Mac Adds Download Manager and New Private Browsing Features

thebluepointe said:
Personally, if you have a solution that works, why switch. Every browser has its upsides and downsides. In the end, it really matters if the browser you use provides solutions that benefit you.
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Thanks you for your very long post.
I do have a solution that works for me. But no solution is foolproof. That's why I have 4 different browsers in my dock. I don't like google for a few reasons. I think that was obvious in my post. Sorry if I sounded harsh. I wanted to see what upsides chrome has. So I can compare to the 4 browsers I have.

At the moment my main browser is safari (used to be firefox) and firefox is is there for pages safari does not like and for the firefox addons. And I have camino and opera for the websites the first 2 do not like. And I've encountered quite a few websites of recent that the first 2 browsers didn't like but camino or opera worked a like a charm for.

So in this vein having a 5th browser in the dock has no downsides. The more the merrier.

I like that it updates flash automatically and internally. I like that it has its own "Task Manager" (View Background Pages) so I can kill individual extensions that might be misbehaving or tabs.
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This feature sounds very nice. Killing specific extensions/addons without having to restart the browser is a nice feature.

I am aware you are talking about chrome on nexus and I am talking about chrome for Mac. But there are parallels for both. As it's the same base app.

Since I own a Nexus 7, I love that I can use Chrome's user sign-in feature to sync my bookmarks and other info between browsers. If I were to, say, buy a new laptop...simply by signing into Chrome, all of my user settings and extensions (that I didn't manually install) would automatically install. Its a bit like Firefox Sync, but much more powerful.
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This I would use a lot. I don't have chrome on my iPad. I'm willing to put the Google aside (ie forget it's made by google) and try it out on the iPad. For this feature alone. I'd have to see how the bookmark folder structure is on the mobile chrome though. As my safari bookmarks are heavily foldered.

Anyway thanks a lot for the information. It's helped me a lot.
 
the8thark said:
I am aware you are talking about chrome on nexus and I am talking about chrome for Mac. But there are parallels for both. As it's the same base app.
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For the processes part, I was talking about Chrome on Mac. Chrome on Andorid is severely hindered compared to its desktop counterpart. Not sure how it fares on iOS.

The bookmark/extension syncing is a very nice feature. You can also (on Chrome's new tab page, bottom/right) see tabs open on other devices, somewhat like Safari's reading list. One feature I love in Safari is Reader. I get this same functionality in Chrome and Firefox with Evernote Clearly.
 
Too funny, oh well at least they got the smart web browser thinking going. Thanks mozilla
 
clevin said:
lol, you do know that firefox developers came up with the design (http://limi.net/articles/safari-downloads/), right? they didn't implement it quickly in firefox, doesn't mean apple didn't steal their idea.

oh, wait, you probably don't care about these trivial facts.
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Unfortunately, for the vast majority (which doesn't exactly like to think much, if at all) perception is reality, and that's really all there's to it.
Larry-K said:
Yeah, but who wants to wait a whole month?
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And people care about the version number because of...? Yeah...exactly. It's great to see software being worked on and updated on a consistent and even frequent basis, especially in today's world.
 
Check back in a few days, Firefox 21 will be released that'll fix a typo in the 'about firefox' section.
 
People don't realize Chrome has more releases because it is not as obvious. Also nowadays Chrome uses more RAM than FF. I still use Chrome though because of syncing.
 
markob said:
Until (after YEARS) they finally fix memory leaks in Firefox I don't really care what they add, using 1GB ram with one simple HTML document opened? Really? Firefox has basically become the new IE, when other browsers get proper Firebug I'll finally be able to uninstall this resource hog off my system.
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This again? Trolling
 
clevin said:
lol, you do know that firefox developers came up with the design (http://limi.net/articles/safari-downloads/), right? they didn't implement it quickly in firefox, doesn't mean apple didn't steal their idea.

oh, wait, you probably don't care about these trivial facts.
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No, I absolutely care. It's interesting that it took them 2 years to implement the feature.

Edit: Make that 3 years. The blog where he first described it was dated March 2010.
 
locoboi187 said:
I just want a smooth pinch to zoom. That's all. Chrome and Firefox don't do that for me which is why I use safari.
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You can add it easy. I didn't like that it was missing either, but then I found this: http://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/937684

Problem solved, and it took about 30 seconds to do, although it doesn't have the smooth zoom like safari does, but safari sucks for GIFs and I follow a "whatshouldwecall....tumblr" for kicks. So I came back to firefox.
 
ArtOfWarfare said:
That download manager sounds like an amazing feature and I can't believe no one has done it before.
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iUse DownThemAll. No problems (Firefox v3.6.x+).

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thebluepointe said:
In terms of speed, on my modern fast system with 16GB of RAM, the differences between Firefox and Chrome on my system are negligible.
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Replace “Chrome” with “Safari”, and i agree. :)
 
Have never found a browser that can compete with Firefox. Good to see that it's still getting the attention that it deserves.
 
philr5150 said:
But yet, Chrome updates twice as fast as Firefox but no-one mentions that. Wonder why...
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Are you sure about that? As far as I can tell, it's Firefox's 4th major release this year (Firefox 17 was released back in January) while Chrome was only updated 3 times in the same period, maybe less for people not using the Beta releases. I stopped using Firefox a while ago because of its laggy UI and its lack of iOS support, a must-have feature now that all browsers are able to sync browsing sessions/passwords across devices.

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lixuelai said:
People don't realize Chrome has more releases because it is not as obvious.
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Or maybe because these days, Firefox is updated more often than Chrome.
 
Rudy69 said:
Still has the old school scroll bars :/
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They look like Safari's scroll bars on my Mac Mini running 10.8.3 with the default theme. I don't understand what is "old school" about them. I prefer the Noia theme with a nice "Aqua" style drag bar, personally. I'm not a big fan of the iOS minimalistic look on a full size computer. What's good for space on a tiny screen isn't' necessarily what's best for a 24"+ monitor.
 
a0me said:
Are you sure about that? As far as I can tell, it's Firefox's 4th major release this year (Firefox 17 was released back in January) while Chrome was only updated 3 times in the same period, maybe less for people not using the Beta releases. I stopped using Firefox a while ago because of its laggy UI and its lack of iOS support, a must-have feature now that all browsers are able to sync browsing sessions/passwords across devices.

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Or maybe because these days, Firefox is updated more often than Chrome.
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Both Chrome and Firefox are (and have been for at least some time) on what is essentially a 6-week release schedule.
 
Tipsy McStagger said:
You can add it easy. I didn't like that it was missing either, but then I found this: http://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/937684

Problem solved, and it took about 30 seconds to do, although it doesn't have the smooth zoom like safari does, but safari sucks for GIFs and I follow a "whatshouldwecall....tumblr" for kicks. So I came back to firefox.
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Ive done that before but mainly i was looking for smooth
 
bigpics said:
Are there any other non-profit software programs that have been this successful (in terms of numbers of users) for this long? I'm sure there are more people running FF than every Linux distro (not specifically maintained by a for-profit corp) combined, e.g....
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There's plenty of massive open source projects that have enormous install bases. Linux would be pretty high up one in that list. There are far more Linux servers than desktops so don't get hung up on how many people have Linux installed on their personal computer. There's millions of servers out there running Linux.
 
markob said:
Until (after YEARS) they finally fix memory leaks in Firefox I don't really care what they add, using 1GB ram with one simple HTML document opened? Really?
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No. Not really.

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Twelve tabs, and running all day.
 
Firefox still uses like 50% of one CPU (plus the 18%+ for the Java Applet itself) on Pogo.com for Scrabble. Safari uses 1% by comparison plus the Java Applet. Firefox doesn't fix squat and given the hoops they make you jump through to report something simple like that (they want error reports and code dumps, etc. etc. instead of just loading the page themselves since it's 100% reproducible at will), they probably never will. To me, that's one SLOOOOOOOOOW resource hogging browser with Java.
 
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