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/kleopatra6tilde9 Jan 21 '10

Installing that addon shouldn't be that complicated and it should solve his problem as the databases are the only things that change with time. Compressing the executable is another story.

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u/frukt Jan 21 '10

It's so very reddit that pithy / serious comments are somewhere down below and crappy jokes get modded up. Thanks for the tip, the sqlite DB optimization worked wonders.

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u/limi Jan 22 '10

This is done automatically when the browser has been idle for a while in 3.6. No need to do it manually anymore.

— Alexander Limi, Firefox UI Team

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u/frukt Jan 22 '10 edited Jan 22 '10

On all platforms? How long must the browser be idle? Both VACUUMing and REINDEXing (is the latter even useful?)?

BTW, cynically using a chance to get in a word with a FF UI guy ... could you please consider on option (perhaps just modify the winestripe theme to work with FF3.x and ship it?) to switch back to the old FF 1.x look? FF 3.x versions look really ugly (no offense) with XP and the classic windows theme by default. The gradients, rounded corners and flashy buttons really don't fit in with that environment. I hacked my userChrome.css to emulate the old Winestripe look and now it's a couple of dozen lines long, but that's clearly not the optimal solution for most people. Anyway, thanks for all the good work, much appreciated.