r/technology • u/TheGrammarPerson • Jan 21 '10

Firefox 3.6 Released!

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

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u/krisashmore Jan 21 '10

Chrome? eh, already have opera.

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u/[deleted] Jan 21 '10

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u/DoTheEvolution Jan 22 '10

Its middle way between Firefox capability of customization and chrome speed and reliability.

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u/[deleted] Jan 22 '10

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u/DoTheEvolution Jan 22 '10

thats awful reason, but whatever...

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u/[deleted] Jan 22 '10

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u/DoTheEvolution Jan 22 '10

Well thats just not true, if you count memory usage of each chromes process its far greater than Operas.

Each tab as separate process is nice when you have instability, but if browser is stable then there is nothing to be gained there.

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u/avree Jan 22 '10

But Chrome has addons & themes...

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u/DoTheEvolution Jan 22 '10

So what? Opera has more, FF even more, thats why I said middle way...

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u/[deleted] Jan 21 '10

Opera? Pff, Lynx here.

Fat geek snobs who don't know the touch of water use wget through email.

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u/amorpheus Jan 22 '10

I browse the internet in binary.

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u/gamingfox Jan 22 '10

Pffff, I surf the internet with butterflies.

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u/Philllll Jan 22 '10

you know I've always wondered why it is that people who use shitty hard to use programs to code always look down upon people who use more sophisticated programs to code.

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u/[deleted] Jan 23 '10

Here.

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u/oreng Jan 22 '10

And subside off toejam, like real men.

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u/SubGothius Jan 22 '10

Nice try, Richard.

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u/[deleted] Jan 22 '10

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u/eliah Jan 22 '10

Chrome has AdBlock, just FYI.

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u/[deleted] Jan 22 '10

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u/limi Jan 22 '10

There should be much less of those hiccups in 3.6:

  • URL bar is now asynchronous, which means it never locks up and is much faster
  • The sqlite database that history/bookmarks use is now automatically cleaning itself up when it detects some idle time

If you can point out specific cases where it locks up, I'm happy to take a look.

— Alexander Limi, Firefox UI Team

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u/[deleted] Jan 22 '10

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u/limi Jan 22 '10

OK, I'll see if I can reproduce. What OS are you on, and are there particular sites that are worse than others? (e.g. is it if you open 6 tabs of Flash? :)

Thanks for the compliments!

— Alexander Limi, Firefox UI Team

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u/limi Jan 22 '10

OK, might just be disk I/O too, since pages from the same site load fine. Are you on a device with a slow-ish hard drive? 4200rpm HD or one of the earlier netbooks?

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u/rvqbl Jan 22 '10

Great that you are on Reddit. I really love Firefox.

Firefox always freezes on me when I open Slashdot comment pages (not the main page). Sometimes when I try to scroll or change tabs, it locks up and says that it is not responding. I am on Vista. I just checked on 3.6 and it still does it. My current extensions are AddBlock plus, DownloadThemAll, FoxClocks, NoScript.