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Feb 9, 2007View in Crawl 4
One things that keeps me on Opera: a zoom function. IE7 has it too now. A program that views documents should be able to zoom in on them. I set Opera to 150% or 200% default and this makes for great casual web browsing, when you're not staring at a screen - great for reading the news in bed.Making text massive, and wrecking the layout of the page when nothing fits inside its cell anymore, doesn't count.
Well lets just say firefox doesn't have as good linux support as it should (when compared to windows), but i do have to say it is getting better every release. :).
I really do hope they fix the memory leaks and the general rendering speed of the browser engine. It gets better all the time, but those two things keep me from using it 100% of the time.
Im assuming as a MAC user when you say intergation you are talking about the "visual" look of the interface. The Cocoa interface is pretty but it can make many a web developer cringe because they have to create css etc just so elements layout and dont overlap due to the over bearing Cocoa GUI. Its not standard at all, but apparently Firefox 3 will have the cocoa thing for Mac users.
I used to have memory problems with Fx 1.5, but right now I'm running 2.0.0.1 with two tabs and (believe it or not) 25 extensions, and Fx is just over 65MB RAM & 55MB Virtual Mem. And this is my home PC with all windows updates installed, with 256MB of memory..At the same time, when I run the same version at Office, it slows down the system to a standstill with just 6 extensions, but I'm beginning to think maybe that's because it doesn't have all the post-SP2 updates installed (Both machines are running XP SP2)
@griffindj I'm running Vista and Firefox launches half a second to a second slower (and that's after it's been in memory). In XP launch of Firefox is way faster.
balerhgaeFeb 9, 2007
Looks like they're pulling a winamp 3.0 on it. Not that I care too much. It's probably for the best.
nailerFeb 9, 2007
One things that keeps me on Opera: a zoom function. IE7 has it too now. A program that views documents should be able to zoom in on them. I set Opera to 150% or 200% default and this makes for great casual web browsing, when you're not staring at a screen - great for reading the news in bed.Making text massive, and wrecking the layout of the page when nothing fits inside its cell anymore, doesn't count.
jojoman02Feb 10, 2007
Well lets just say firefox doesn't have as good linux support as it should (when compared to windows), but i do have to say it is getting better every release. :).
adrenaline33Feb 10, 2007
Maybe because no one cares about Macs
stockjonesFeb 10, 2007
I really do hope they fix the memory leaks and the general rendering speed of the browser engine. It gets better all the time, but those two things keep me from using it 100% of the time.
stockjonesFeb 10, 2007
Im assuming as a MAC user when you say intergation you are talking about the "visual" look of the interface. The Cocoa interface is pretty but it can make many a web developer cringe because they have to create css etc just so elements layout and dont overlap due to the over bearing Cocoa GUI. Its not standard at all, but apparently Firefox 3 will have the cocoa thing for Mac users.
lifensteinFeb 10, 2007
I used to have memory problems with Fx 1.5, but right now I'm running 2.0.0.1 with two tabs and (believe it or not) 25 extensions, and Fx is just over 65MB RAM & 55MB Virtual Mem. And this is my home PC with all windows updates installed, with 256MB of memory..At the same time, when I run the same version at Office, it slows down the system to a standstill with just 6 extensions, but I'm beginning to think maybe that's because it doesn't have all the post-SP2 updates installed (Both machines are running XP SP2)
Closed AccountMar 3, 2007
@griffindj I'm running Vista and Firefox launches half a second to a second slower (and that's after it's been in memory). In XP launch of Firefox is way faster.