3.6.6 was installed last night. Is 4 beta better? I know nothing about it except that it exists. Yes, the recover tab did its job after each crash.
I try to limit FF use to non-flash heavy sites, and Chrome for gwc, facebook, youtube, etc. But, with flash being so common, it’s becoming more difficult to maintain that. I complain a lot about the memory foot print of Chrome, but having so many flash pages is more likely the culprit.
fc, i am using ubuntu linux, and my firefox is actually on 3.6.8
I keep my firefox updates through the Firefox Stable Channel Packages
ppa:mozillateam/firefox-stable
eventhough that’s from the mozilla team, it’s still usually a couple of days slower than the firefox updates for Windows. so since you are on 3.6.6, i am guessing you are on some kind of linux as well?
if you are, give the PPA above a try.
i actually just got updated to 3.6.9 now
I’m sorry. I’m on 3.6.9. I scared myself with that mistake just now. FF auto-updates itself when it detects a new version. Windows Ultimate 64 though.
hmm, i haven’t encountered that problem in a while and i frequently have more than 20 tabs opened. it could be some kind of 64 bit issue that mozilla haven’t fixed. or even a Windows vista issue, if others expereince it on 32 bit firefox…
either way, i can’t help, since i am on a 32 bit linux machine.
https://support.mozilla.com/en-US/questions/705848?page=2
it does seem like a 64 bit issue. hopefully they will resolve it soon, now people are sending crash reports.
Heh. Thanks for the link. Downgrading to 3.6.3 is tempting because I do remember having fewer problems in the past.
Like I said, I have 10-30 tabs over 6 windows. So, any where from like 70-180 tabs open atm.
with that kind of macro ability you probably can kick a lot of butt in starcraft 2.
Lol! The windows just stay open so I don’t have to search through History or my humongous Bookmarks/Favorites list to find a particular site. A lot of the tabs are EVE related. I could prune those, but that would be admitting defeat. I believe software should cater to me, not the other way around. d:
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I wondered what happened. I thought I was infected by a virus when I first noticed.
Chrome is so great. It’s like the Starbuck of browsers. High-maintenance, but the very best.
Is Firefox the helo then? and IE would be Hotdog because all the rash?
Mosaic would be Dee then?
Too soon?
Firefox would be Lee at New Caprica. Just keeps getting bigger.
IE would be that tattooed pilot that nobody wants to talk to but is always there.
Actually, that’s pretty much true of all browsers.
Mozilla split up into Firefox and Thunderbird. I’m wondering if it’s possible for FF to split up again… d:
funny thing happened today, while i am using my firefox, a warning popped up telling me the following addon has been detected to cause instability or security issues and has been disabled, and asked if i wanted to restart. that’s not funny, the funny thing is that addon is Personas.
Isn’t that a addon by mozilla themselves?
the weird thing is persona has an update for it the same time it is disabled, i wonder if they just made some kind of mistake.
Chrome. It has so many features that I can’t live without anymore.
Speed. At times I suspect that it is preloading a bunch of stuff but meh, a few extra kbs on my monthly usage is nothing and the experience is flawless
Roaming tabs. I can open a tab, drag it into it’s own window or drag it into another chrome window. I don’t even care if other browsers do this now, Chrome did it for me first. They lured me in with speed and kept me with roaming tabs
Uber-bar. Search, url, pffft it’s all the same. And for a company that specializes in knowing where EVERYTHING is on the web that is likely true. Did you know that if you type in a url of a site with a search box (such as imdb or wikipedia) and press tab then you can initiate a search on that site directly from the uber-bar? Awesomeness on toast.
No toolbars/menus/pesky UI fruit. Perhaps a total of 80 pixels is devoted to Chrome itself. The rest is all content, all the time.
Silent updates. Some people hate this sort of thing but I can’t stand Firefox asking you to restart it so it can update itself. How do I know Chrome is up to date? Because I’m using it that’s how.
Mayhap if I’d been a heavy Firefox user before I’d be suckered in by shiny plugin vendor-lock but luckily for me I worked for a web design company and guess what, we had to do all of our design for IE6 because at the time (sadly) that was what all of our customers were using.
didn’t firefox do that first? i could drag tabs to another window an long time ago. the only thing chrome brought new to the scene as i recall are individual processes for each tab and addons, and making a tab or web page a shortcut so it can behave almost like a application. that’s mainly for google docs i think.
i hate that feature. sometimes i just need to search a web url quickly to see what they are up to, not actually go there.
it’s able to do that because it was the first to have addons on their own process so they can be restarted without restarting the whole browser. it actually has pros and cons. for one, if an update isn’t well tested and is actually broken (happens a lot in the addon world), there’s little way for you to manually go back to the version that works.
Nah. FF then IE was among the last to implement tab to different window moving, almost copying Chrome in that respect.
I was just listening to Dan Carlin’s Common Sense show 183. Did’ya know you can flush all the cookies in your browser, but there’s still this thing called a flash cookie that keeps tabs on all your search activities - and they’re selling YOUR private information to companies for their marketing purposes. And there’s nothing you can do about it. If I’m not wrong, Dan himself was complaining how his child was denied health insurance because he did a search on some disease or something…
You can read about it below:
If you want to know more about how your 4th Amendment rights to privacy has been trashed (and there’s nothing you can do about it!) Listen on to the Common Sense podcast. btw, Dan recommends you read this! It’s a “transcript from another show where a computer expert is explaining why we are all screwed with the online privacy idea anyway.”
PS: I found a flash cookie cleaner. But try it at your own risk. ~_~
FF 3.6.10 is available for windows.