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Firefox 3.5

Postby Dae » Tue Jun 30, 09 11:04 pm

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...is out now. Get it on

www.firefox.com

You should get it because it's a lot faster. Not maybe in terms of memory consumption, but it just renders the pages faster -- prolly as fast, as Google Chrome.

Below you can find two hacks for those who don't like changes in the interface.

1. If you want to get rid of "new tab" button, close Firefox and then go to
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C:\Users\Your Username Here\AppData\Roaming\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles

find a folder with weird name like b34vh5gy.default, then navigate to folder chrome/.

Find file userChrome-example.css, rename it to userChrome.css, add this line to the end of the file:
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.tabs-newtab-button {display: none}


2. If you want to be able to close the last tab (I mean, if you have only one tab opened, close button disappears for it in FF3), also add this code:
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/* Add tab-close-button to last tab*/
.tabbrowser-tabs[closebuttons='alltabs'] > .tabbrowser-tab >
.tab-close-button { display: -moz-box !important; }
.tabbrowser-tabs:not([closebuttons='noclose']):not
([closebuttons='closeatend']) >
.tabbrowser-tab[selected='true'] > .tab-close-button { display: -moz-
box !important; }

Then open Firefox, type about:config in the URL bar, find browser.tabs.closeWindowWithLastTab and change it to false.
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Postby Spiderbot01 » Tue Jun 30, 09 11:07 pm

This thread is now about the superiority of IE.
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Postby James » Tue Jun 30, 09 11:08 pm

Remind me to download it tomorrow. I'm off to bed.
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Postby clyzm » Tue Jun 30, 09 11:08 pm

[PMS]LONGCAT wrote:This thread is now about the superiority of IE.


chrome*
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Postby Tantalus » Tue Jun 30, 09 11:13 pm

portable mp3 player wrote:
[PMS]LONGCAT wrote:This thread is now about the superiority of IE.


chrome*
Netscape*
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Postby clyzm » Tue Jun 30, 09 11:14 pm

I'm sorry I'm pretty sure I heard you wrong

Did you say, "Netscape"
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Postby Tantalus » Tue Jun 30, 09 11:15 pm

Controversy. I love it.


Why does the fox look more like a foetus now?
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Postby Dae » Tue Jun 30, 09 11:32 pm

It doesn't remind a foetus to me.

This is the real firefox, by the way:
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Postby Tantalus » Tue Jun 30, 09 11:34 pm

Heart just melted.
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Postby clyzm » Tue Jun 30, 09 11:34 pm

i lol at "foetus"

It's fetus.
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Postby Spiderbot01 » Tue Jun 30, 09 11:36 pm

portable mp3 player wrote:i lol at "foetus"

It's fetus.

Youre a fetus!
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Postby clyzm » Tue Jun 30, 09 11:37 pm

[PMS]LONGCAT wrote:
portable mp3 player wrote:i lol at "foetus"

It's fetus.

Youre a fetus!


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Postby James » Sat Jul 18, 09 9:52 am

Quite possibly the worst FireFox ever, I've had non-stop errors since installing this. It isn't compatible with Steam, keeps fucking with my DNS and overlaps most programs for some retarded reason so I see parts of Firefox when I'm chatting on an MSN window which is at full size.
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Postby Dae » Sat Jul 18, 09 10:29 am

I have none of those problems.
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Postby clyzm » Sat Jul 18, 09 10:33 am

Sometimes it freezes my computer while trying to load anything ActiveX.

Otherwise it's smooth as a baby's ass.
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Postby Mr. Tastix » Sat Jul 18, 09 11:59 am

Dae wrote:I have none of those problems.
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Postby James » Wed Aug 12, 09 6:31 pm

Workaround for a Firefox 3.5 bug where they activate random windows after minimizing which would confuse the state of some Steam windows
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Postby Tantalus » Wed Aug 12, 09 6:35 pm

James wrote:Quite possibly the worst FireFox ever, I've had non-stop errors since installing this. It isn't compatible with Steam, keeps fucking with my DNS and overlaps most programs for some retarded reason so I see parts of Firefox when I'm chatting on an MSN window which is at full size.
I had the same troubles with Firefox 3 (why I migrated to Opera) but 3.5 has been as good as gold.
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Postby MainMan » Wed Aug 12, 09 7:45 pm

K-meleon for life.

Firefox is a processor hog. V2 used to be good and lean, but v3 onwards is just bloatware.
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Postby Tantalus » Wed Aug 12, 09 8:15 pm

Processor hog? 2% usage on idle with Core 2 Duo at 2.13GHz.


RAM hog, maybe.
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Postby clyzm » Wed Aug 12, 09 8:26 pm

Tantalus wrote:Processor hog? 2% usage on idle with Core 2 Duo at 2.13GHz.


RAM hog, maybe.


Not even RAM hog, it uses like 25mb lol
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Postby Tantalus » Wed Aug 12, 09 8:41 pm

Comparing that with Opera, Safari 4 and IE:
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150MB
Like 60MB.
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Postby MainMan » Wed Aug 12, 09 8:49 pm

My K-Meleon is currently using 15mb of RAM, and that's while I'm using it with 7 tabs open. It also uses the same gecko engine as the latest firefox, only it doesn't suck.

Firefox also takes ages to load. I don't care about having a myriad of features that wipe my arse for me, I just want my browser to be fast, and compatible with all the sites I want to view.
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Postby James » Wed Aug 12, 09 9:02 pm

MænMan wrote:v3 onwards is just bloatware.
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Postby Mr. Tastix » Wed Aug 12, 09 9:26 pm

Backup your claim please.
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Postby Mr. Tastix » Wed Aug 12, 09 10:09 pm



Mine uses 50-100mb, nowhere near 25mb but 267? I blame you and your fucked up PC over Firefox since it works fine for me.
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Postby Siva » Wed Aug 12, 09 10:09 pm

Chrome is the best

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Postby James » Wed Aug 12, 09 10:12 pm

Psychotic wrote:


Mine uses 50-100mb, nowhere near 25mb but 267? I blame you and your fucked up PC over Firefox since it works fine for me.


your fucked up PC


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Postby Dex » Wed Aug 12, 09 10:21 pm

Psychotic, I've just tested it, try and open your Task Manager while monitoring the memory usage of Firefox. Then continuously open new web-sites and start streaming videos or music. After that close the tabs and stay on only one tab. You'll notice that the memory doesn't flush, yet stays the same as before.

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