I'm using Google's Chromium on Mac and Windows. I update the builds daily with TechCrunch's Mac Chromium Updater and Chromium Updater for Windows. Apply the AdThwart extension to Chromium and you are all set. Firefox is now the backup.

Yeah, I guess, but I like this behavior better myself. If you only have a few tabs open it doesn't matter, but if you have a lot of tabs open so the tab list doesn't fit, I just find it convenient that the new one is next to the one where I clicked the link. But, yes, I agree that it's a preference item.

For all we know there might be a config variable for that behavior.

-David

You are correct. Playing around in about:config, it's controlled by:

browser.tabs.insertRelatedAfterCurrent

One thing I just noticed in FF 3.6 in Amazon is that when I went to change my email address the field displays my text in white on a white background - ie. I can't see what I am typing!

I'm seeing regular old black text at my Amazon account settings, so not sure what's up with your configuration.

FT seems to be loading faster; at least I haven't been getting that odd delayed behavior that has been going on pretty regularly for months.

I only noticed it in those fields so switched to Chrome to do the update, all fine.

As for FT and that slow loading - totally agree, I thought it was my laptop but, and I hope this is not tempting providence, but the slow loading seems to have stopped for me too. Although typiing this reply the words seem to buffer and although I am typing the cursor disappears and then all of a sudden all of my typed text appears (usually only 3-4 words). Odd.

Some updates can cause difficulties. I successfully run XP SP2 on my Thinkpads. If I update to SP3 they all will intermittently lock-up or freeze. Doing a system restore to SP2 will return them to working ok. I do the manual updateing.

MisterNice

It appears a new stable release of Chrome is now available with 1500 extensions some of which I gladly use with FF.

MisterNice

Interesting that extensions seem not to work when Chrome is started in Incognito mode.

I updated to FF 3.6 and Chrome 4. Glad Chrome now has extensions in non-beta release. No ....... was just killer in Chrome. I use it as my 2nd browser and often have both open.

I have major issues running Mozilla Firefox 3.5.9 on my three year old Dell Inspiron running XP Professional. Besides being a massive memory and resource hog (task manager sometimes has it operating at 500,000Kb or more), opening some websites (most noticeably Facebook) often gums up everything including other programs. It has gotten to the point where it genuinely infuriates me and I have desires to toss my laptop at the nearest window. And I'm generally not an angry person...

I never thought I would say this, but Explorer is so much better at this point.

Does anyone else have these problems? I think I'm going to try out Chrome or Safari. What do you think?

It might be my laptop, but I don't think so. Because I can simultaneously run iTunes, Adobe Photoshop CS3, Word 2003 and Excel 2003 without any problems whatsoever. Only when Photoshop is stitching together relatively large panoramas does everything slowdown, but that is to be expected and I generally them leave my laptop alone for a few minutes.

So why is it that a stupid, simple web browser apparently has massive issues with just opening a simple website like GMail or the New York Times???? I have disabled a plethora of add-ons... doesn't help.

HELP????!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

3.6.3 is what I am currently running and is significantly better than 3.5.9. Hangs, crashes, mem leaks seemed to be the order of the day. I went to Chrome but I did not like the lack of bookmarks in a format I am used to.

I amusing FF 3.6.3 also and its far superior to chrome, opera etc. For a few websites I gotta use IE but 98% are better with FF and its nice free add-ons. My ram is 2gb but I occasionally exit FF with its quit and save feature and click on FF. It takes about a minute and FF ram drops a lot. There is rumored to be a major FF upgrade in Jun 2010.

MisterNice

I updated to the lastest version, hoping it would fix some of the problems. Oddly I did not know about a later version than what I had running.

But it hardly makes a difference. Only Facebook seems to run better, otherwise it's ... bad as the older versions.

When everything was slowing down again, I checked my task manager. Firefox was gobbling up a whopping 500,000Kb+ of memory with CPU usage consistantly above 5-10% (even when I wasn't actively browsing). Other processes such as Photoshop and iTunes (both also running and active) just a fraction of these resources, maybe 1-2% of CPU.

So I closed down Firefox, the normal way, clicking on the "X" in the upper right-hand corner. I timed how long it took the firefox.exe process to finally close. 9.5 minutes, of which five minutes had it using above 500,000Kb of memory and often CPU usage reached above 50%. What can Firefox possibly be doing that it needs to remain active so long???? Not updating, considering I updated the day before.

I'm going to try it for a while longer, but in the meantime I'm getting used to Chrome and starting to re-like Explorer. I think Firefox will soon be getting the uninstall... it really has gone downhill like a downhill racer with a rocketpack since it first replaced Explorer as my preferred browser.

What add-ins do you have running?