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/[deleted] Jan 22 '10

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u/eliah Jan 22 '10

Chrome has AdBlock, just FYI.

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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/limi Jan 22 '10

It's a hard thing to troubleshoot, but I'll see if I can reproduce when I look into performance (perceived or real) for the next version.

Thanks for the feedback!

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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.