Firefox 3.6 Beta - mini report
Nov 16, 2009 | 10:22 am
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Firefox 3.6 Beta - mini report
Installed today on W7 pro 64.
1) Much faster than 3.5.5 (subjective measurement).
2) New tabs now open by default as inserts after the current tab, not appended to the end of the list of tabs. Interestingly different when opening many tabs while reading FT. Doesn't seem to be any option to choose the old behavior.
Other than that, nothing obviously different.
1) Much faster than 3.5.5 (subjective measurement).
2) New tabs now open by default as inserts after the current tab, not appended to the end of the list of tabs. Interestingly different when opening many tabs while reading FT. Doesn't seem to be any option to choose the old behavior.
Other than that, nothing obviously different.
Nov 16, 2009 | 11:59 am
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Nov 16, 2009 | 12:01 pm
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Nov 17, 2009 | 11:46 am
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I tried it for a couple of days on XP and on Win7. Seemed a little faster on XP with minor page rearrangements but 2 fav add-ons didnt work on Win7 so removed it on both this morning. Somewhere I read they updated the beta yesterday.
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Mar 17, 2010 | 3:48 pm
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Firefox 3.6 consuming a lot of CPU?
I upgraded to FF 3.6 earlier this week and it is regularly consuming >50% of CPU, even when I am not doing any "active" browsing. Is anyone else experiencing this?
Running Vista 64 with 4 GB ram. One thing of note: I usually have Wall Street Journal online active, which seems to update constantly, but FF still consumes a lot of resources even if I kill WSJ. I only have about 5 add-ons installed.
Running Vista 64 with 4 GB ram. One thing of note: I usually have Wall Street Journal online active, which seems to update constantly, but FF still consumes a lot of resources even if I kill WSJ. I only have about 5 add-ons installed.
Mar 17, 2010 | 9:50 pm
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http://www.firefoxfacts.com/2010/01/...-in-far-right/
Mar 20, 2010 | 4:54 pm
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Did anyone else find with that the new persona's slowed down their browsing? It may just have been a coincidence but once I upgraded to this new version of firefox my browsing speed slowed to a crawl. The minute I switched off the persona's it speeded back up.
Mar 20, 2010 | 5:33 pm
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Follow this tip to revert to the old behavior of tabs opening at the end.
http://www.firefoxfacts.com/2010/01/...-in-far-right/
http://www.firefoxfacts.com/2010/01/...-in-far-right/
Mar 20, 2010 | 9:23 pm
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I don't seem to really see any slow down on my old XP computer that I use for business.