Browser Updates- Master Thread
Jan 21, 2010 | 11:59 am
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Browser Updates- Master Thread
I will start this thread to centralize all browser updates. Feel free to post updates as you see fit. I really dont like to use automatic update.
Jan 21 2010: IE8 critical security update and Firefox major update
MisterNice
Jan 21 2010: IE8 critical security update and Firefox major update
MisterNice
Last edited by MisterNice; Jan 22, 2010 at 1:22 pm Reason: incorrect year here and on 2 checks written and mailed
Jan 21, 2010 | 3:24 pm
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firefox 3.6 released today (jan, 21st)
noticeably faster and works just fine on both my 2.66ghz intel imac running snow leopard 10.6.2 and fine on my ancient road warrior g4 66zmhz titanium powerbook running leopard 10.5.8
Jan 21, 2010 | 3:57 pm
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Jan 21, 2010 | 4:01 pm
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Good. FF 3.5.7 was slow, kept locking up, and seemed to have a memory leak. I shall download it immediately so thanks for that.
Jan 21, 2010 | 5:59 pm
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Jan 21, 2010 | 6:28 pm
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Is there a reason why automatic updates are a bad thing?
Jan 21, 2010 | 9:05 pm
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personas seems silly to me, but what do I know. It just changes the top and bottom bars of the browser window, right? Am I missing something? No, I have not turned them on, but the roll-over preview didn't seem as exciting as their video about them.
-David
-David
Jan 21, 2010 | 9:37 pm
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Anyone else?
Jan 22, 2010 | 12:42 am
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Personas, skins, well it just looks plain daft to me and selected a few and then could not read the buttons properly with some of them and I don't see anything there for me at the moment. I just found them too distracting from what I have been used to with the browser. And with recent releases of FF I am firmly in the camp that less is more. FF 3.6 seems to be more stable and less prone to lock ups - but I have 3 tabs open and am using 231,456K of memory - which doesn't decrease as I close tabs. Doesn't seem right to me.
Jan 22, 2010 | 8:17 am
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yes-the update in question could be a dog which is why i allow for automatic checking for updates but not for automatically downloading and updating until i read some of the user comments and etc first
Jan 22, 2010 | 1:40 pm
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I'm not sold on it. The user should be able to determine the behavior.
Jan 22, 2010 | 1:56 pm
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Personas: Plenty to choose from, but it really only affects the top 100 pixels and the bottom 50 or so, so you have to find a pic that has the right colors in those very narrow areas.
Now if they could only allow you to change color schemes of the websites actually shown...like FT and its 20th century blue scheme, for instance...