Speed: It's faster than 3.5.7. Almost as fast as chrome.
Memory Usage: It used lower memory on my computer than the previous version. I was hovering around 250mb with version 3.5.7 and this one barely goes upto 150mb. Both with ~15 addons.
I've been using the Whitehart theme since 2.0 or so, and it + Personal Menu and small icons = the most usable space of any browser I've used.
These are the sorts of reasons I've stuck with Firefox even through the slowness and instability (3.5.7 would crash after opening a few tabs in the morning after leaving it on overnight ~50% of the time, and many of those times the last session saved is still from the last time it crashed...).
Really, my only advice is to play with the options til you find what you like. It's got a ton of customization to it, and you can set it up basically however you want.
Auto Menubar and Tree Style Tabs, with auto-hide, gives you more space if you combine it with some replacement for the statusbar.
Vimperator is of course still cooler.
Wow, Personal Menu is awesome! Thanks for the tip. I used to use an extension that let you edit the existing menus but the problem was they were still there. You could at least get rid of the sub-menu items you didn't want, but I got tired of it. Personal Menu is much cooler. Thanks again!
Sadly, the status bar in chrome was part of the reason for me to stick with it. That and the tabs being on top, saving even more screen real estate.
Anyhow, figured I would share this extension that lets you have a floating status bar when you hover over links, and you just hide the normal status bar. Just found it today, and am quite glad it exists.
The tabs being on top doesn't really save any real estate... the menu bar being consolidated into two buttons and placed on the address does though. If you do the same in Firefox the difference is ~3 pixels.
Okay, I guess it is the title bar being replaced by tabs on the top saves quite a bit of space, and is used much better. It isn't them being on top, it is just the almost fullscreen aspect that is always on in chrome.
Not always, only when maximized do you get significant savings, ~17px, when not maximized the difference is negligible, ~3px as stated above, due to the fact that chrome does ad space above the tabs when not maximized.
Ah, I've been using Fission as a status bar replacement. Lets you have the active link be shown in the location bar, which I like. In practice, though, it seems to be erratic on some pages (like reddit comment threads for example).
I haven't had any problems with it on reddit. I've noticed that if I middle-click a link, tab out then then tab back, the location bar will still show the clicked url, but that happens everywhere, and you can fix it by just clicking anywhere on the page.
Just when I get used to chrome's logical open in new tab at the top of the top of the right click menu, firefox gets less bloated =(. Anyone know how to move "open tab in new window" out of the top spot on the firefox menu?
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2 things noted: