could that have been a tab mix function then? cause i remember dragging tabs around before chrome.
Could move them around and re-order them, but only in the same window.
Part of the reason I use Chrome is I got addicted to having my Tab’s be at the top of the screen in one of the safari betas on my mac. Didn’t like it at first but I can’t not use the internet without it effectively anymore. Makes the antiquated work computers hurt so much.
Chrome was getting sluggish, so I restarted it. So after it finished starting up, I used “free” (a cygwin/unix command) and it reported I was using 3557 MB of total memory. I used Chrome’s task manager to kill flash. The task manager reported flash was using about a gig of ram. Indeed when I killed it, “free” reported 2398 MB of total memory used. W…T…H…?
For a base, “free” reported I was using 1009 MB of total memory before I started Chrome. This is on my Vista 32 laptop btw…
Ditto Pike. I like how streamlined Safari is and its my primary browser, but I have Firefox on my dock for the occasional script-heavy site that doesn’t play nice with it.
New browsers offer tons of improvements
After a decade-long hiatus, the browser wars are officially back. With this week’s ominous Ides of March release of Internet Explorer 9, last week’s Google Chrome 10 release, and this month’s expected release of Firefox 4, the three most-used browsers are all trying to outduel one another with the most impressive specs. Safari 5, which was released in June, also features many of the same modern features.
It’s good news for consumers, but choosing the right browser can be a confusing challenge, given all the recent updates. Despite their similarities, there are some key differences.
I put together a new PC in January that has 16 gigs of RAM because Google Chrome consistently uses 3-4 gigs by itself. I’ve recently started noticing problems with youtube and other sites with flash video. Turns out Chrome doesn’t like when Flash memory usage goes above 1.2 gigs. Go figure. d: The fix is to kill the Plug-in: Shockwave Flash process and reload the page(s), then repeat when the problems occur again.
Ok, i am officially rolling with the newest Firefox 4.0 It’s sweet. Now loading gmail is in a blink of an eye.
I am using it on Ubuntu, to install, run this command:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:mozillateam/firefox-stable && sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade
There’s this Firefox addon called Zotero, which is a citation tool, it’s made writing paper so much eaiser when it comes to referencing. And since it support Openoffice Libreoffice and other branches, it runs perfectly on Linux.
I’m a pretty stalwart Firefox user. I tether a lot in iffy cell conditions, so adblock and noscript are essentially required to get any browsing done.
I have never bothered to upgrade past whatever my current version of (x)ubuntu has installed, but I’m curious enough about 4 to give this a shot.
…when I’m not tethering, of course 
Baltar and I exchange dirty g-chat messages using Chrome
Anyone having a problem with:
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Chrome refreshing/reloading pages at random. It’s woken me up at night because Youtube pages reload.
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Firefox 6.0.2 crashing.
My firefox just started crashing in my upstairs machine, I should debug my extensions.
Btw:
IE grl giggle
I’ve been using Opera since Juan mentioned it a few 'casts ago. Thanks to that photo. I will continue to use it.
Thanks. I just disabled several plugins.
I don’t have any extensions currently. Maybe when I decide to go for the dreadlock look. d:
You said poll.
i’m still in the Firefox camp. I’ve been writing stuff that needs to cite a lot of other crap, and Zotero is an awesome plugin that let’s me do one click citing. It’s pretty awesome. Soon Zotero will go to Chrome as well, but right now, it’s Firefox or bust for me.
i said bust
I’m a web developer and my quick answer to this is for everybody to Please use ANY EXCEPT IE. Basically IE refuses or does a really really poor job of implementing W3C standards (the standards the web development community agree upon on how things should be coded & handled). And because IE doesn’t implement the standards, web developers have to spend massive amounts of time trying to make sites backwards-compatible to work similarly in IE as other W3C-compliant browsers. Thus a lot of development time is lost and thus IE prevents the advancement of web technologies. IE is holding technology back! Don’t use it, it’s Evil! (Now with that said, their latest version has improved a lot in implementing the W3C standards, but over-all, it’s still full of fail)
what, no Lynx … where’s the love?
Lynx? Sure, if you’re a fancypants. I’ll stick with Gopher. 
Kidding aside, I only recently stopped testing my sites in Lynx. It’s amazing how many section 508 bugs show up as glaring, obvious defects in lynx.
Yeah, FF is still crashing. ):
What Han said
Although i’m a bit Chrome-curious thanks to Sean …
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