Well Firefox is out for me. Simply no way of syncing bookmarks over MobileMe to my iPhone. And probably something that Apple will never allow. Oh well.
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Mozilla Releases Firefox 3.5
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Yup, FF is still #2 in my book. Safari 4 has it hands down for me. FF is still a couple of clicks slower than Safari, and yes it's color schemes seem to be off or darker as some posters have mentioned. Still waiting on some pages to load, but at least the crashing issues haven't been occurring since the 3.5 update....
add ons.
wow safari still open lightning quick compared to ff, still faster than the other one though.
The thing about web browsers is that you often don't spot the new features unless web developers specifically make use of them. Firefox 3.5 supports many new CSS3 and HTML5 features but most developers won't use them until there is more widespread adoption.
I use this:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/7518
Well I'm on Safari 4 at the moment, but I guess I'll try out Firefox 3.5 and see what's up since people say its fast.
Okay well I'm posting on Firefox 3.5 at the moment...and it really is FAST! For those of you who have not tried it yet, try it! For those of you who are saying its ugly -- Safari has a better look to it, but in my opinion Firefox 3.5 is in no way "ugly".
Firefox just doesn't interest me. Being a UI designer, Firefox's Java roots make it hideous to my eyes. The improper menus, wrong font sizes on buttons, stupid halos around every control despite having that turned off in my preferences.
I cannot stand using FF for more than a couple of page tests.
I cannot stand using FF for more than a couple of page tests.
Will they add multi-gesture?
I feel like I can't use FireFox anymore because I love the features of my MBP trackpad. Am I missing something?
I feel like I can't use FireFox anymore because I love the features of my MBP trackpad. Am I missing something?
Extend Firefox 3.5 Contest
I would like to add two links for (future) Mozilla Application Developers:
https://addons.moz Contestilla.org/en-US/firefox/search?q=PDF&cat=all
http://labs.mozilla.com/contests/extendfirefox3.5/
Don't have a spot to start your project? Then please join mozdev.org or the likes and feel free to contact us developers (me est 1999) so that we can help you, when needed.
Good luck!
I would like to add two links for (future) Mozilla Application Developers:
https://addons.moz Contestilla.org/en-US/firefox/search?q=PDF&cat=all
http://labs.mozilla.com/contests/extendfirefox3.5/
Don't have a spot to start your project? Then please join mozdev.org or the likes and feel free to contact us developers (me est 1999) so that we can help you, when needed.
Good luck!
Never knew about that... doesn't sound like a huge savings over clicking on a page from the history but saving seconds adds up at the end of the day.
No Safari has support for tagged images but anything without one it barfs up the usual colors without using your profile. FF defaults everything, even untagged, to use your profile. I opened up pages, as I've stated, ESPN and FF looks correct and Safari 4 is neon.
figures out the stability issues with Safari 4.Initial Thoughts:
1) Install issue. Even after a clean reboot, finder thought that the dylib's were still in use. Had to delete them from finder before copying over the new version.
2) Memory PIG. After 3 hours of use, with only one tab open, 3.5 had 450MB of Real Memory locked up. Hey Mozilla, how about fixing the memory leaks in 3.6?
1) Install issue. Even after a clean reboot, finder thought that the dylib's were still in use. Had to delete them from finder before copying over the new version.
2) Memory PIG. After 3 hours of use, with only one tab open, 3.5 had 450MB of Real Memory locked up. Hey Mozilla, how about fixing the memory leaks in 3.6?
You could sync your bookmarks between safari and firefox using xmarks, then use ff on your machine and safari on your iphone
Eh, where did this: "Firefox's Java roots" came from?
FYI: Mozilla Firefox has no Java roots... and never will. Period.
Hey, how about disabling that feature, the one that saves pages in memory first?
p.s. If you really think to have found such a big memory leak in 3.5 (for a single tab) then please... be my guest and file a bug report here. And don't forget to add clear steps to reproduce the bug
Looking at the wrong number? I routinely find that when Safari has gobbled 500+ Mb or "Real Memory" in Activity Monitor, FF has around 130Mb.
Right now after opening the same sites in FF and Safari - Safari has 140Mb and FF has 84.
Try this one.
One of my machines went from 4050ms to 1152ms.
Another one from 2541ms to 951ms.
And it feels much faster in real life too.
http://www2.webkit.org/perf/sunspider-0.9/sunspider.html
rantz rant...
You know what buggs me with Safari4? It's the fact I can't use the customise the taskbar to how I like it, instead the refresh thing has to be in the middle and the [+] can'r be disabled.
And I thought APPLE was suppose to create user-friendly applications and stuff.. it's not very user friendly if the user can't customise it.. Thank god there's FireFox!!
You know what buggs me with Safari4? It's the fact I can't use the customise the taskbar to how I like it, instead the refresh thing has to be in the middle and the [+] can'r be disabled.
And I thought APPLE was suppose to create user-friendly applications and stuff.. it's not very user friendly if the user can't customise it.. Thank god there's FireFox!!