Robot Monkey Posted December 6, 2005 Report Share Posted December 6, 2005 Well, the new FireFox has been out for a little while now and I think it's tasty. Here's a link to a Lifehacker list of fantastic keyboard shortcuts. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kelley Posted December 6, 2005 Report Share Posted December 6, 2005 Are you experiencing the huge memory leak like a lot of other people? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robot Monkey Posted December 6, 2005 Author Report Share Posted December 6, 2005 Nope. I'm keeping an eye on it, though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Daisy Posted December 6, 2005 Report Share Posted December 6, 2005 I have been experiencing the memory leak on a few PC's, but not all of them. My wife's laptop at home really bogs down with it. Hopefully they'll get that straightened out with 1.51 Glen Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
foogledricks Posted December 6, 2005 Report Share Posted December 6, 2005 The biggest problem with Firefox for me, drives me crazy, is when I control-click a link to have it open in a tab, it doesn't work if my system is bogged down (ie if a bunch of pages are already loading, Firefox seems too busy to recognize that I'm holding the control key down, and just defaults to opening it in the same window.). This problem happens on every machine I use. So annoying when I'm scanning down my LCVG new-posts list, control-clicking all the threads I'm interested in, in rapid succession. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robot Monkey Posted December 6, 2005 Author Report Share Posted December 6, 2005 That's weird. I don't control-click to open a link in a new tab (I use the middle mouse button for that), but I haven't noticed that behavior before. 1.5 has some new and better control of tab and link behavior under options. Is that the version you're using? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ryan FB Posted December 6, 2005 Report Share Posted December 6, 2005 I was experiencing that problem in the nightly I was running, but I don't think I've encountered it yet in 1.5 final. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Starhawk Posted December 6, 2005 Report Share Posted December 6, 2005 Im not sure what the memory leak is, but Im still using 1.0.7, and I've always had a weird memory problem with Firefox. For example, say for you had 5 browsers or tabs open, then you closed all but one; the memory that those 5 windows would still be tied up until you closed out Firefox all together and started with a fresh browser. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ryan FB Posted December 6, 2005 Report Share Posted December 6, 2005 The problem is, there's not just one big "memory leak bug" the dev's can sit down and fix. There's hundreds. Additionally, some of the leaking can come from poorly written extensions. Cruft from old profiles being used from version to version can also induce leaking. Also, all browsers have leak problems with certain complex pages. Click this (5MB of HTML) into a few new windows/tabs if you want to bring anything other than lynx to its knees. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
exile Posted December 6, 2005 Report Share Posted December 6, 2005 Should i upgrade to 1.5 or leave it as is on 1.0.7? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ricky G Posted December 8, 2005 Report Share Posted December 8, 2005 And everyone says the IE browser sucks! I have all browsers on my machine, and they all have cool features. For some reason, IE is the only one I use when I'm not testing a site on one of the other browsers for dev. purposes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Camp Posted December 8, 2005 Report Share Posted December 8, 2005 I use IE too -as a tab inside Firefox. This extension is fantastic. Open sites in IE in a Firefox tab with no visible indication that you're actually running IE. Very cool. http://ietab.mozdev.org/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robot Monkey Posted December 8, 2005 Author Report Share Posted December 8, 2005 Wow, that's cool, Camp! To date I always used the ieview (launches the page you're on in IE) plugin for those annoying IE-only pages, but I'll have to give this a shot. Have you noticed any particular problems or benefits with ietab? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Daisy Posted December 8, 2005 Report Share Posted December 8, 2005 That plugin is awesome. I hate running IE in it's own window. Glen Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrJames Posted December 8, 2005 Report Share Posted December 8, 2005 Thanks for the IETab notice. I was using IEView as well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dan B. Posted December 9, 2005 Report Share Posted December 9, 2005 I gotta grab that extension, thanks for the link! 1.5 has been good for me so far; I had a problem in previous versions since around 1.0 where Firefox would crash when going back a page but it's all good right now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bendak Posted December 11, 2005 Report Share Posted December 11, 2005 Just upgraded to it...Bungie.net still runs like ass on it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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