Posted on 07/02/2009 8:45:09 AM PDT by smokingfrog
I think they’re missing the point of why people liked FF in the first place. Less bloat, less security issues, shorter load times.
I have been using Firefox 3.5 Beta 4 for months and am very happy with it. Using it on an XP Pro box.
Much more stable than 3.0.
At this point some of the plug-ins are not yet compatible, but I love Firefox 3.5 beta.
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Hmmm. I still have 3.0 but 3.5 is advertised as being “Twice as fast as Firefox 3.” Just to be safe, I think I will wait until the next bug fix to upgrade.
>>Might be a good idea to wait before installing version 3.5? <<
I am.
But Firefox has been slowing down every release since 2. How they got into the MS bloatware pattern is anyone’s guess.
So that’s why it is slow. I thought it was because of Itunes or something.
“Hmmm. I still have 3.0 but 3.5 is advertised as being “Twice as fast as Firefox 3.” Just to be safe, I think I will wait until the next bug fix to upgrade.”
Agreed. FF3 has been the slowest iteration of FF I’ve experienced. I’ve been hoping 3.5 speeds things up. But I’ll wait until the bugs are fixed.
Try IE8 running under Win 7 - my experience show it to be faster than FF
“Try IE8 running under Win 7 - my experience show it to be faster than FF”
I’ve read good things about Win 7. Hope to experience it soon.
I updated to 3.5 yesterday and have noticed no slowdown. All of my plugins but one are fine, and the one that wasn’t fine didn’t cause a problem because FireFox warned me when I was updating that it would have to disable one of my plugins.
WinXP Pro
I’ve also been running latest version of Safari. First impressions are pretty good.
I’m running 3.5 now and its been noticeably faster than 3.0. I haven’t experienced this slowdown described.
Yes addons are behind the compatibility curve, but tbey always are. I use “nightly tester tool” to get them working.
I am using 3.0.11 and it loads slowly, sometimes refuses to load, so I use Safari. What should I upgrade to and what do they mean by the Java remark. I am such a computer novice it is embarrassing.Vaudine
I upgraded and downgraded within an hour yesterday. All sorts of stalls and freezing, even in safe mode.
I installed the new 3.5 this week and it just hammered my speed. It is a hog of a program that injects unneeded crap on the basis that it is smarter and can think of what you need better than you can.
I've wondered if Microsoft has moles working on the open source.
I upgraded to 3.5 just now so we’ll see how it goes :)
I like foxit it is much faster then Adobe’s pdf reader.
Use Opera Unite
There’s one bug that I’ve seen with FF for quite a number of versions, including the most recent. It is the copy bug, wherein text sometimes is not able to be copied. Highlighted text will not be offered a copy function in the context menu. It just does not exist. Using the copy shortcut keys also does not work.
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