Posted on 06/22/2011 6:26:22 AM PDT by ShadowAce
I love and use Firefox but they took a giant step backwards with FF4 and its slow-movin’ interface.
Perhaps the ‘speed’ of FF5 is simply a return to the status quo under FF3.X?
huh...I just updated my Firefox to 3.6.18 this afternoon.
I appear to be somewhat behind the techno curve.
You’re not alone...
I hope the hype proves true because Firefox definitely has room for improvement. Have used it for years, since it was Firebird, primarily because I like many of its features, but have almost left it for Chrome several times dues to slow loading and excessive stalls, freezes and it rarely closes cleanly (all those program is not responding messages before closing).
Absolutely.
...have almost left it for Chrome several times dues to slow loading and excessive stalls,...
Well, I can say that I've never considered leaving Firefox--while it has been slow for me at times, I like the extensions too much to leave it. I get no popups, no ads, just content.
I love and use Firefox but they took a giant step backwards with FF4 and its slow-movin’ interface. Perhaps the ‘speed’ of FF5 is simply a return to the status quo under FF3.X?I agree. I actually went back to 3.latest.
I just clicked [Help]->[About] in Firefox
and it started downloading FF5... 8.4MB
Now I’m running it....seems OK so far.
When I click "Check for Updates" it wants to DL 4.0.1.
Interesting. I just quit using FF4 because it was terrible. I’m back on IE 9 for now until something more stable comes around.
I loved FF3. I should never have moved to FF4.
I installed the 32-bit Linux version just a few minutes ago. Not a great deal of difference to me yet. We’ll see how it handles daily browsing over the next week or so. I wish Mozilla put out an official 64-bit version.
I am running 4.0.1 under Xubuntu 11.04.
Well, I was running version 4...maybe if you are running 3.x
it just wants to download 4 ?
That’s probably it. I’m running 3.6.18 on this machine now.
I wonder why they didn’t compare it to IE9? IE9 claims to be way faster than those listed. I wish to see if another study proved IE9 was faster as well.
But yeah, I think we all know Chrome sucks :-)
I upgraded to FF 5.0 this morning and see a noticeable improvement in page load speed over the prior version (4.0.1).
Can someone reccommend any good add-ons for FF -
I have added - Ghostery and Better Privacy
I also use Tab Mix plus and Remove It Permanently
Upgraded to 5.0: seems faster starting up and loading pages, but it disabled a bunch of add-ons, even more than usual for Firefox upgrades. Compatible add-on versions usually, but not always are available later.
Will have to see how it holds up after several hours of browsing.
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