New Opera and Firefox 3

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Posted by Daly de Gagne
Jun 22, 2008 at 08:16 PM

Offtopic, I know—but am wondering whether anyone has experience with the latest Opera and Firefox versions?

I’ve just got back from two weeks away so haven’t had a chance to try much new.

Travel puts a real crimp in CRIMPing.

Thanks.

Daly

Posted by quant
Jun 22, 2008 at 11:12 PM

firefox 3 in comparison with firefox 2

- appears to be a bit faster
- much better memory management, before it was not unusual to consume 500-700MB of RAM when I had a lot of tabs opening/closing, probably a lot of memory leaks. Now it seems to stay bellow 300MB, so I don’t need to restart it to regain lost RAM.
- crashed on me few times in the past few days. The whole window with all the tabs just closes instantly, never happened with firefox 2.
- several add-ons I’m used to still not compatible with firefox 3 :(
- new looks, but I don’t care about that cause the first thing I loaded was “mini theme” to maximize real-estate.
- like the new F11 full screen mode (maybe it was possible with some add-on before as well)

Posted by Wes Perdue
Jun 23, 2008 at 09:12 PM

Quant,

Thanks for the info. The full crash is a bit disconcerting

F11 for full screen has been around on the PC and Linux versions of Firefox for quite some time. I use it regularly on my Eee PC 900.

Daly,

I moved from FF2 to FF3 on my Mac this past weekend. FF2 was so slow on my brand new MBP (compared to Safari, or FF on a PC) as to be unbearable; FF3 is quite usable.

I’ve not yet moved from FF2 to FF3 on my PCs, as I’m waiting for my two most-used extensions to be updated on addons.mozilla.org: Tab Mix Plus and Mouse Gestures.

I’ve updated Opera to 9.5 on my work PC, but I’ve not yet used it, since I’ve really no need for it. I’m in FF 97% of the time, IE (required for certain sites at work, etc.) 2% of the time, and Safari 1% of the time.

Regards,
Wes

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