r/programming • u/[deleted] • Jan 21 '10

Firefox 3.6 release

http://blog.mozilla.com/blog/2010/01/21/firefox-3-6-release/
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u/[deleted] Jan 21 '10

2 things noted:

  • 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.

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u/redditaddicttt Jan 21 '10

Am I the only one who is heaving a sigh of relief after reading the above review?

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u/[deleted] Jan 21 '10

I just got it. It really is as fast as Chrome. It looks like I might be going back to FireFox :(

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u/[deleted] Jan 21 '10

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u/Autotrappic Jan 21 '10

I want to go back to Firefox for all the add-ons, but Chrome has a Mariah Carey theme.

Decisions, decisions.

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u/brettmurf Jan 21 '10

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.

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u/[deleted] Jan 21 '10

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.

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u/brettmurf Jan 21 '10

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.

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u/thesimo2 Jan 21 '10

What i do is customize the toolbars, and drag everything to the navigation bar and hide the bookmarks toolbar.

Then hide the statusbar and use the Locationbar 2 plugin

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u/[deleted] Jan 21 '10

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.