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firefox with Lion
- Thread starter yogimac
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Any extensions. I am finding out that extensions whether it Safari or Chrome or FireFox really are causing problems.
I have to agree, I was a firefox user under OS X then I switched to Chrome before I upgraded to Lion, Chrome rocks. Try it, you wont regret it.
when chrome gets the add-on support that FF has i will change GLADLY,
On topic* i would suggest to drag the FF icon to the garbage bin and reinstalling it. you won't lose your settings don't worry.
Disable all not needed Add-ons, such as the Flash Player plugin, the Java plugin, the QuickTime plugin and so on, and enable them only, if you need them!
I recommend also Adblock Plus and NoScript. These extensions save CPU time and memory.
Safari doesn't have that many extensions. Most Firefox extensions and features are not available on Safari. That combined with the fact that it still renders fonts incorrectly is causing me to still use Firefox. At least they've now addressed Safari's vulnerability with some extra Lion security features (they extended the sandboxing stuff). Unfortunately it doesn't start as fast as Fx5 with 3 tab groups and 50-ish tabs on my Macs. It used to be faster. If Mozilla would up the OS X integration stuff than Firefox would kill Safari for me. Flash is something I disable in any browser (Flashblock, Click-to-Flash) because of its performance issues. That seems to resolve nearly all of the performance issues I ever had with any webbrowser (the others being things like speed of the webserver, internetconnection).
I installed Lion on both my MBP and my iMac. Initially Frefox 5 only crashed on my MBP, especially when using multiple tabs. Installing the beta did not help.
After a couple of days, Firefox on my iMac started to crash as well - again installing the beta did not help. For some reason, my iMac also slowed down significantly (and I mean significantly), especially when time machine is on.
After a couple of days, Firefox on my iMac started to crash as well - again installing the beta did not help. For some reason, my iMac also slowed down significantly (and I mean significantly), especially when time machine is on.
ahem.. back on topic.. sorta..
Is anyone seeing issues with Firefox and Resume - such as i posted here: https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/1197996/
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Is anyone seeing issues with Firefox and Resume - such as i posted here: https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/1197996/
?
All real issues I'm having with Firefox are solved by disabling the Flash and Shockwave director plugins. I have horrible scrolling issues with Flash active and even the preferences panes don't load properly.
If I need Flash it is used through Chrome, which handles it wonderfully.
If I need Flash it is used through Chrome, which handles it wonderfully.
I've been running FF6 with all plugins enabled including Flash(though I do have Flashblock) and I see no slowdowns/crashes. In fact, I haven't had a single Firefox crash since Firefox 4. Honestly. The same can't be said for Chrome or Safari.
I wasn't talking render engines, I was talking webbrowsers. There are numerous bugreports about Safari not rendering fonts correctly from years ago and they still surface with the current versions. With Firefox they don't. If you compare the fonts from different applications it is very clear that Safari, Chrome and Opera render them differently where some fonts seem to have letters jumping around a little (funky fonts). Firefox displays them as every other application does.How's that? The Gecko engine is the one rendering fonts all funky-like, not Webkit
Conclusion: Safari still has major problems with font rendering like they had with nearly every release. If we're talking render engines it seems more logic that webkit has the font rendering problems, not gecko.