What is Digg?302 Comments
- mooboy322, on 03/27/2008, -10/+300great, now get my extensions/add-ons to work with it
- grumpyrain, on 03/27/2008, -4/+171I don't know what they are waiting for. FF3 is already far more stable than 2. Browsing digg with FF2 just gives my CPU a coronary.
- ardnut, on 03/27/2008, -0/+148With the latest Firefox 3 beta 4 does any one else have it where any page you visit on digg finishes rendering but then just sits there forever loading with "Transferring data from digg.com" in the status bar?
- necroprancer, on 03/27/2008, -32/+170Sweet. Firefox 2 has crashed on me quite a bit, but I'll support an open-source browser over IE and Safari to the end.
- sputnike, on 03/27/2008, -1/+84I'm already using it, and I think it's great. Firefox two, although I used it, was a memory hog and crashed a little. Not once have I had Firefox 3 crash yet, and the memory usage is low. Thank you Mozilla for yet another great piece of software!
- jmg703, on 03/27/2008, -16/+70Your Macbook sucks. My Macbook Pro kicks your ass, weak sauce. Find something else to brag about.
- zoomtechtv, on 03/27/2008, -3/+56Gamestop is taking Preorders for five dollars down for Firefox 3. LOL
- jmg703, on 03/27/2008, -12/+61WTF? Any fool with cash can buy Mac, idiot. It doesn't make anyone special. I bought my Macbook Pro when it first came out. You're the late comer talking about it like it's a religion. Go get a reality check. NO ONE CARES ABOUT YOUR STUPID LAPTOP BRAND AND OS BUT YOU. You give Macs a bad name you poser. All you use your Macbook for is trolling and web browsing, most likely myspace or some other garbage sites. You wasted your money, fool. Unless you do real work on laptops like the adults do, you're just some kid with a toy that's way beyond him. I bet you never even opened other apps besides web browsers, quicktime, itunes and text edit. Peon. Do you do ANYTHING productive? Doubt it. Should have bought a cheap laptop for your trolling, cause you don't need a Mac to do that. Prove me wrong kiddo.
- inactive, on 03/27/2008, -5/+53LOL, where exactly does an open source web browser 'ship' to?
- gritta, on 03/27/2008, -3/+41Digg is just coded awful, it's the only website I have issues with in BOTH FF2 and FF3.
- astrotrain, on 03/27/2008, -2/+40FF3b4... Uses less memory then Safari..period.
- misterpony, on 03/27/2008, -0/+36Yes, I have the same thing here...and someone reported it: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=40356 ...
- knight666, on 03/27/2008, -1/+33Although I do have a weird issue with Digg on Firefox 3 beta 4: the pages never stop loading!
- renegadeafk, on 03/27/2008, -1/+27You get get around it by using noscipt and forbidding msn.com. I got around it in opera by adding something to the add filter, but the same doesn't work in adblock plus for some reason.
the reason is a bug in the msn ad scipt that has detects firefox 2 correctly but not 3 - AlexBellisBrown, on 03/27/2008, -0/+26Safari is good, but its not Firefox. At least with FF3 I wont get the script errors on Digg that I do now. Viva el Fox!
- sputnike, on 03/27/2008, -2/+28Hey AppleMacMan!
You've been selected to win a brand new shiny Digg "Blocked" User from Account Sputnike. To claim your prize, you need to do absolutely nothing.
Troll. - astrosmash, on 03/27/2008, -1/+26Yes. That's a bug.
- troye, on 03/27/2008, -1/+25Are you talking about the Beta?
My experience is that Firefox2 is golden, but molasses-slow compared to Firefox 3. Firefox 3 beta 4 is a speed demon.
I think that extensions can be what are making your browser crash, and causing you Firefox 2 to be unstable. - jmg703, on 03/27/2008, -3/+26http://img210.imageshack.us/my.php?image=uranoobvy ...
You've been proven wrong. Can you do the same? - piesforyou, on 03/27/2008, -4/+25Wow... FF crashes once in a blue moon for me. Really, hardly ever at all. Once a year on average maybe? But still... I can't wait until june!!
- troydoogle7, on 03/27/2008, -4/+23most of the popular ones are already compatible. And the beta is very stable already.
- inactive, on 03/27/2008, -7/+24yes i read that it's microsofts faul, it is very annoying
- troye, on 03/27/2008, -1/+18Yeah whats up with that?
I'm sort of compulsive about neatness, so I hit the STOP button so I would not see the page loading all the time. - HorseloverFat8, on 03/27/2008, -0/+17Firefox 3 can zoom pages. Have you even tried it?
- BlueSkyfish, on 03/27/2008, -0/+16I'm running Linux with Firefox and Microsoft still somehow finds a way to ***** up my web browsing.
- theaceoffire, on 03/27/2008, -1/+17Dang it, you Pantene Pro-V users always bring that up. Herbal Essences for the victory!
- Cupantae, on 03/27/2008, -5/+21If you were using a computer with 128MB RAM and 500MHz processor, you would know that they have fixed a LOT more than the look.
- doshindude, on 03/27/2008, -0/+16UNACCEPTABLE!
/powerthirst - MixedSpleens, on 03/27/2008, -0/+15Safari is not that great really, I mean its fine, but I still liked firefox better even when 2 was eating my memory and crashing every once and a while. 3b4 is great, its faster cleaner and doesnt play memory munchers, plus it still will have the stuff that makes FF great like extensions. (that are plentiful and don't nickel and dime me to death)
As for the Mac zealotry, it might have been a necessity in 1998 when Apple had one foot in the grave, but its out dated and it makes one look a bit douchy now. bragging about ones os choice is like bragging about your shampoo choice, no one cares. - DannyBoy83, on 03/27/2008, -0/+14Gamestop called me last night asking me to trade in my FF preorder.
- giid, on 03/27/2008, -0/+14I believe Cupantae means the focus from b4 -> b5 was mostly looks, not v3 in general.
- Bara, on 03/27/2008, -1/+15Anybody know if Google's Browser Sync works properly in Firefox 3? That's the only reason why I haven't upgraded yet.
- inactive, on 03/27/2008, -4/+18Everything is Microsoft's fault.
- matriculated, on 03/27/2008, -1/+14Good going on making people think that Mac users are complete asshats. Do you wear a black mock turtle neck with jeans? You're the reason people aren't moving from Windows to OSX.
- KMartSheriff, on 03/27/2008, -0/+13Big trucks.
- darienphoenix, on 03/27/2008, -1/+13Sounds like you're the one fantasizing...
- hank22, on 03/27/2008, -8/+20Ye, it crashes with me all the time latley.
- zwaldowski, on 03/27/2008, -2/+13No. Digg is just designed *****.
- bxblox, on 03/27/2008, -0/+11Yeah, I find myself pressing escape every time it happens to avoid having to see that.
- insertAliasHere, on 03/27/2008, -0/+11I close my eyes when I wash my hair, but yeah, to each his own. :)
- oblique63, on 03/27/2008, -2/+12so is your mom
- Maestr055, on 03/27/2008, -2/+12you can enable a lot of your extensions/add-ons even if it disables it by default.
Pull up "about:config" and create a new boolean variable named extensions.checkUpdateSecurity set to FALSE. This will allow the extension to run, but disables a good safety feature.
Making extensions.checkCompatibility and setting it to false is another trick
See here: http://lifehacker.com/355973/make-your-extensions- ... - lamiaconfitor, on 03/27/2008, -8/+17why are you being dugg down? are people really that brand loyal?
- swAppp, on 03/27/2008, -0/+9ships into the world wide web prob.
- ArmchairAthlete, on 03/27/2008, -6/+15I have to concur with the experience crashing. Even on Linux where I also use it.
Really after all the crashing, memory hogging, and hanging/sluggish performance I should've already gone back to IE or gone to Opera. I do like my few extensions though...
Go ahead and dig me down for my blasphemy, but this is my FF experience on multiple machines. - Vlatro, on 03/27/2008, -4/+13In FF2, there are some memory leaks, though it's unlikely you'd ever run into any of them in normal usage. The real problem was that they allowed extension developers to take some liberties with their code quality, assuming that the developer was experienced in programming and would support their extension. Many of the most popular add-ons however are simply not supported and packed full of bugs that chew up memory.
FF3b4 so far enforces a stricter policy on how memory is used and thus fixes many of the problems. That being said, kiss you beloved extensions goodbye, you can't just change the compatibility heading to make it work for the new version, as was a common practice with FF2. In many cases extensions will have to be rewritten to comply, and those not actively supported today may be gone for a while until someone gets around to doing the job right.
Also consider that many of the memory problems with firefox stem from the OS, not the program it's self. OSX, XP, Vista, and many linux variants use completely different memory management methods. When FF3 goes gold, I have no doubts it'll blow safari out of the water, and sink one more nail in the IE coffin. I'm no Firefox fanboy, I'll be the first to point out it's flaws, but those flaws are quickly addressed and even before an official release, there is a whole community dedicated to releasing unauthorized but effective patches. Safari is good, I'd put it about equal with FF2 now in terms of functionality and stability, but FF3 would win that fight hands down. Until safari put's out the next release, I think FF will be dominant. - RyanHCO, on 03/27/2008, -1/+10I don't have many issues with my existing Firefox 2. Even browsing Digg is fine; I rarely crash unless I open tons of tabs on a Monday after not Digging all weekend.
That said, I tried out version 3 and do not like that it integrates the "favorites" into the address bar. I prefer to have mine cleaned out and, yes, empty of "evidence." - rdjurovich, on 03/27/2008, -2/+11Does this mean Ubuntu will be 8.04 with Firefox beta or 8.06 with Firefox stable?
- iofthestorm, on 03/27/2008, -0/+8Firefox3 is very fast even with the same extensions installed as Firefox2, it really is that much better. And there is a memory leak detector or something of that nature for fixing buggy extensions. But yeah, some extensions are really horrible at leaking memory (I believe forecastfox is one, and I've also heard Firebug leaks memory like mad, although I don't know about the beta versions of that).
- astrotrain, on 03/27/2008, -2/+10Some sites are designed for Internet Exploder....and that's it. You need to grab the IE Tab Extension, it will allow IE to load up in a tab. Therefore if IE crashes you just loose your tab and not your browser experience.
Don't worry, FF keeps IE on a chain and will not allow harmful apps such as ActiveX, etc to load crap on your system.
IE: "ACTIVE X... ACTIVE X! ME WANT!!!"
FF: **yanks on chain** "Heal boy... down IE, Down IE!"
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