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- smithro1984, on 10/11/2007, -2/+143@puesi
Why on your screen-shot have u been googling "micropenis"? - PueSi, on 10/11/2007, -0/+76Ok you got me my firefox theme is not the only thing that's small...
- ChuckIT, on 10/11/2007, -10/+74I've been waiting for a new interface. not really a fan of the downloadable interfaces.
- PueSi, on 10/11/2007, -1/+47It was research from a recent digg article, just don't look at the pictures you'll thank me.
- starsky51, on 10/11/2007, -0/+45@PueSi you missed a link:
http://www.google.com/search?q=micropenis
care to explain? - blaze03, on 10/11/2007, -1/+44@ PueSi
"It was research from a recent digg article"
A likely story! - Mejogid, on 10/11/2007, -4/+43My 2 requests:
Resume downloads across sessions (it's apparently in the works but certainly isn't enabled in the trunk builds).
A better default theme (1.x was much better looking IMO and intergrated far better with the user's theme). - gamesector, on 10/11/2007, -7/+36@chuckit
Why? It takes about 10 seconds to download and install them and some are pretty decent. - Mejogid, on 10/11/2007, -15/+43Yeah! Lets all jump on the 'Firefox is bloated' bandwaggon. I don't know if you're actually aware what bloat is, but I can't see how anything in the article could have a noticable effect on RAM usage, and none of it makes the UI less accessible. While there's obviously something to be said for keeping the core of firefox trimmed down, hese are mockups of an alpha browser and, in all honosty, would probably be significant improvements. If you're computer suffers that much using firefox, use something like kmeleon, camino or epiphany.
- Dumbledorito, on 10/11/2007, -13/+39@mejogid: It doesn't matter what they add or take away. I'm using the latest version of FF and I'm still getting memory leaks and resource hogging (88% of processor cycles at times). I really wish they'd put everything on hold until the browser could sit in the background without deciding that it needs my entire gig of RAM and all of my computer's processing power.
- lazlonger, on 10/11/2007, -1/+26thanks for the link. why is it considered comment abuse to offer a working version of the site in question? it seems like adding a comment about how the piece of @#$ isn't working would be considered ok, but adding a corrective solution is abuse? doesn't make any sense i can see....
- PueSi, on 10/11/2007, -1/+21Firefox themes kick ass.
If you want to save as much space as possible my setup is Minifox+TinyMenu+AdBlockPlus.
Here's a screenshot of how it looks on my system: http://i8.tinypic.com/68cr6n5.jpg
Minifox
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1202
Tiny Menu
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1455
AdBlockPlus
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1865 - bjornski, on 10/11/2007, -4/+23Without an ad-blocking feature?
No. No it is not. - pmarks, on 10/11/2007, -0/+19Mirror:
http://web.ics.purdue.edu/~pmarks/mirror/Alex%20Faaborg%20-%20%BB%20The%20User%20Interface%20of%20Firefox%203%20%20Features.htm - Azdak, on 10/11/2007, -1/+18Hooray for Porn mode! Uh...I mean private mode...yeah.
- electioneering, on 10/11/2007, -0/+17it's about time they add built-in tagging. my bookmarks are out of control.
- coheedcollapse, on 10/11/2007, -8/+24That looks nothing like Opera.
- inactive, on 10/11/2007, -8/+23I don't know about jumping on the bloated bandwagon -
but I am all over the Firefox is slow as hell at
surfing digg bandwagon. It sux to say,
but Opera and IE are much faster than FF now. - killerofkiller, on 10/11/2007, -0/+13any mirror to the images?? someone who caught it b4 it went down upload the screenshots pls
- SgtBlue, on 10/11/2007, -1/+14Hmm, never though Mozilla servers would bow to the Digg Effect. At least it's just the photos.
- theone3, on 10/11/2007, -4/+17(comment abuse - mirror with working images) http://tinyurl.com/34pxx2
- theone3, on 10/11/2007, -15/+28LV is making the very valid point. This is turning into another Netscape. They've made a good browser, it works, it's fast, it's simple and it has a good engine (Firefox 0.8). Now they're screwing up consistently, making it slower and more bloated - rather than optimizing the engine they keep changing the UI. Rather than fixing the RAM leaks they build in more extensions based on horribly inefficient XUL+JS. They're building deeper partnerships w/google etc. They're changing their business model. They're doing everything to make sure that they don't actually do the core work required to have a good, fast, reliable, solid browser. Sounds familiar, doesn't it?
- binaryspiral, on 10/11/2007, -2/+14It's wordpress... nothing new about that. :-)
- danakin, on 10/11/2007, -0/+12Blocked. Reported. Good day!
- tomi, on 10/11/2007, -1/+13Perhaps you should make use of folders then? I have my bookmarks rather neatly organized. If it weren't for folders, you wouldn't be able to find anything...
- hadiz, on 10/11/2007, -3/+14Doesn't EVERY new version of an application say it's going to enhance or improve "performance, stability, and security?" those are things that happen behind the scenes anyway and 9 times out of 10 you can't tell the difference
- Dumbledorito, on 10/11/2007, -2/+13@theone: This seems to happen more and more with popular software (commercial and not). Is there a law or something that someone has mapped out based on "feature creep," efficiency, popularity, and time?
- binaryspiral, on 10/11/2007, -2/+13Server.... is.... getting.... crushed.
Must have mirrors - stat! - motheroats, on 10/11/2007, -1/+10I also don't like those interfaces taking up a lot of my memory.
- harlequinade, on 10/11/2007, -0/+8Just when you thought F/F couldn't kick IE 7's butt any harder, the gurus at Mozilla show us proof they're not even warmed up yet?? Excellent!
- lukeo, on 10/11/2007, -2/+10i actually quite like the UI in 2. in previous versions i would always install new themes, but with 2 i am happy enough with the UI to leave it as default.
- zerokoolin, on 10/11/2007, -1/+7its dead :(
- clemsontiger, on 10/11/2007, -0/+6I have been using gran paradiso since alpha 1. Its sad when i will use an alpha 1 because it is more stable then IE.
- DjOverEZ, on 10/11/2007, -0/+6If anyone was wondering, I took the liberty of going to evil.foo. There's nothing there.
- JohnnyKdiggs, on 10/11/2007, -1/+7Firefox 2 is far better than IE7, but Firefox 3 is going to absolutely blow IE7 out of the water.
- theone3, on 10/11/2007, -0/+6I don't see what that has to do with usage.
I'll use whatever browser I damn well like, and you'd better have your site working on it. I sure as hell do on mine. I say that as a web developer/designer who spends much of his time fixing IE6's irrits (note:IE7 is much less of a pain than IE6, almost equalling FF) - Paranoidmarvin, on 10/11/2007, -2/+8obviously you've never tried to build a website that works well on IE7 and Firefox...
- TheSabre, on 10/11/2007, -3/+8@gamesector
Yes, I agree - a small sacrifice for an interface. The one thing I don't like is that you have to reboot Firefox to change themes. They need to have hot swap themes which, I believe, Opera has. - DarkSunlight, on 10/11/2007, -3/+8Why digg theone3 down?
Someone screamed for adblock in ie7? Well that's exactly what ie7pro does! - stupergenius, on 10/11/2007, -0/+5@Dumbledorito
Well that's not all Firefox's doing. Sites like Digg use a fair amount of Javascript, and since Javascript...well...sucks, a post with a large amount of comments can take some processing. Well, most Web2.0 sites use AJAX to some degree which helps to offload processing to the client so the application can provide a more interactive experience without requiring a beefy server cluster, so it is natural that a large portion of the sites you visit require a fair amount of processing. Sites like Google Maps, Flickr, etc. make heavy use of Javascript and so can really strain an aging machine. All of which is entirely out of the developers' meaty hands, unless they disabled Javascript and I don't think many of us would use Firefox anymore.
So no I don't think Firefox is bloated out of the box, unlike EMACS which is the definition of bloat(couldn't resist the jab, use Vi), but with a zillion addons even I would become bloaty. - dbr_onix, on 10/11/2007, -0/+5My request with the Download Manager would be more reliable resuming. I don't think I've ever had a download pause and resume properly, and nearly always have to start again.
I can use wget and it's -c flag for bigger downloads, but for ~10MB ones I don't want to have to use an external download manager (With something like Flashgot) - Crazymaniacc, on 10/11/2007, -10/+15You should really try one, I love the iFox Smooth.
Anyway this is looking fine, not to drastic but ok. - justdave, on 10/11/2007, -1/+6Should be up and running now. Alex posted the images on people.mozilla.com, which is personal webspace for Mozilla employees. Since employees also get shell accounts on that machine, it was limited to 100 processes per user to keep people from killing it. Unfortunately that limit apparently applied to apache as well, so as soon as it hit 100 concurrent connections it hit the limit and fell over. Apache's process limit got bumped, and the server is handling the load easily and is bored now. :)
- Mejogid, on 10/11/2007, -0/+4He made a ligit comment up above... hacked or just weird?
- inactive, on 10/11/2007, -0/+4I'm over folders. Bring on the tags.
- Blarbo, on 10/11/2007, -0/+4I like Classic Compact. Same look as default Firefox theme, but it takes up a lot less space.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/3699 - gioma1, on 10/11/2007, -0/+3> Resume downloads across sessions (it's apparently in the works but certainly isn't enabled in the trunk builds).
http://flashgot.net
>A better default theme (1.x was much better looking IMO and intergrated far better with the user's theme).
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/3449 maybe - Urusai, on 10/11/2007, -0/+3Just glancing at the "microformats", it seems it is redundantly duplicating the function of XML in HTML, which is itself XML. Wow, talk about brilliant ideas. Can we get a SOAP layer on that?
- snapcase, on 10/11/2007, -0/+3Ya know, I like the way bookmarks are handled in the current version. I don't see a reason for the change mentioned...
And on the note of themes, I prefer Littlefox by Alfred Kayser. I've tried just about ever other minimalist theme out there and I feel this one is still the best. - specialK16, on 10/11/2007, -0/+3I'm a diehard Opera user but I love how where this is going!
@PueSi: Apart from your firefox theme, are you using WindowBlinds or what? Where can I get that XP sking you are using? -
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