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).
I just clicked [Help]->[About] in Firefox
and it started downloading FF5... 8.4MB
Now I’m running it....seems OK so far.
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 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
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.
downloaded it yesterday. Can see no real change
*and no real problems - which is very good
thanks for ping
If it’s anything like previous major releases, the memory leaks will be twice as bad and it’ll hog 100% of CPU as it reaches 2 gigabytes memory usage after browsing for 15 minutes.
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After being open for five or six hours and used intermittently, Firefox 5.0 locked up on me and it took the usual many attempts to close it,”Program not respondng” and several attempts in Windows Task Manager.
Some improvements, but that part isn’t corrected.
Placemark.