Firefox 3 has just been released. There’s a thread in GD talking about particpating in Download Day (Mozilla is trying to set a world record for downloads in one day), but I figured we could talk about the technical stuff here. Any tweaks, issues, etc. found in the new release.
Looks like the site is getting hammered though. Could be my lame IE running here at work though.
Yeah, that’s one of the major fixes. I heard that FF2 would take up more memory the longer you left the window open. Thats dumb. And it would also cache full size images as you were browsing, but now you can set an expiration on your cache. Its supposed to be more stable, too. And I heard it can fix your refrigerator. That’s just a rumor though.
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In GD, fiveten mentioned that there’s a dedicated server on isohunt that counts toward the download world record, so you might want to try your luck there, since I can’t even get the firefox site to load.
Still uses quite a bit of memory, but doesn’t seem to get to leak memory as I open and close new tabs like FF2. Can’t complain I guess for a free product :tup:
I don’t like Firefox. I prefer, and use Opera. Opera 9.5 just came out. Go download it instead of Firefox 3.
Reason why Firefox is a memory hog is because of the extensions. Most of the time, people who make these extensions don’t debug them and end up causing huge amounts of ram to be sucked dry.
So, what add-ons are people running? I downloaded a few last night… some of them I probably could have done without. Tabbit (I think that’s the name), BlueOrganizer, CoolIris, PicLens…
a) How to stop “Hard Disk Activity” while using Firefox 3:
Go to the “Tools” menu > Options > Security > Unchecked both “Tell me if the site I’m visiting is a suspected _______” options.
b) You may noticed that scrolling CSS-type webpages can be quite slow and choppy under FF3. To remedy this issue, edit both userChrome.css and userContent.css (take out the name “example” from these files) and add in the following:
body
{
background-attachment: scroll!important;
}
Edit these .css files under the following path:
C:\Documents and Settings(Your name)\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles#.default\chrome
I was leaving youtube and gonna do a google in my search bar. I had to switch the search engine when at the bottom I saw a “Add youtube video search” button.
Yeah FF3 is dope.
EDIT: The little down arrow for the search engine selection supposedly glows blue when there’s a new engine option.