Firefox 3.6, Namoroka, is noticeably faster

Greg F. · Post by **Greg F.** » Wed Oct 14, 2009 8:18 pm

You always hear about how one browser is faster than the others, but 3.6 is quick. I hope they update the extensions fast.
I got the link at Fudzilla.

http://www.fudzilla.com/content/view/15951/1/

Catching · Post by **Catching** » Thu Oct 29, 2009 2:47 am

Safari is one of the fastest browser, with provide safety. because it doesnt allow add ons.

dhanson865 · Post by **dhanson865** » Thu Oct 29, 2009 11:00 am

Catching wrote:Safari is one of the fastest browser, with provide safety. because it doesn't allow add ons.

Not allowing addons like adblock plus actually makes windows browsing less safe.

ascl · Post by **ascl** » Thu Oct 29, 2009 4:57 pm

I use chrome, and ad-block is the one thing I *really* miss (and no, javascript hacks to avoid ad's are not really the same thing).

Greg F. · Post by **Greg F.** » Thu Oct 29, 2009 7:37 pm

I am posting this with 3.71a1pre Minefield and the Adblock extension is working. I don't know if it is any faster than Chrome, but it seems very fast.

Ant6n · Post by **Ant6n** » Fri Oct 30, 2009 10:18 am

ascl wrote:I use chrome, and ad-block is the one thing I *really* miss (and no, javascript hacks to avoid ad's are not really the same thing).

Use Iron. It uses the chrome source code but excludes all the built in tracking by google. Plus it has an ad blocker - you need to find the .ini on their webise though.

ascl · Post by **ascl** » Fri Oct 30, 2009 4:06 pm

I did try Iron at one point but didn't like it for some reason. I shall re-visit it tho, cheers

bonestonne · Post by **bonestonne** » Fri Oct 30, 2009 7:56 pm

I'm also using the 3.7a1pre Minefield, Adblocker extention + a ton of others for what I like to do...I run it x86 in Mac OS X 10.4.11, but i also run x64 in Ubuntu 9.04 (haven't updated yet).

Compared to the original Firefox 3.5, Minefield is a monster. I see no compatibility issues with what I use, which is great, but I'm sure some people find some.

I also tweaked my about:config with so many different tutorials, i forget most of the mods, but they also change the way Minefield performs. at first i do notice lag, but that's because Minefield parks itself in the RAM, which at first bogs down my 1gb Powerbook, but once it's settled, it runs great.

ascl · Post by **ascl** » Fri Oct 30, 2009 11:30 pm

FWIW I just tried Iron again... and scrolling causes CPU usage to spike (which makes my crappy PSU make noise). So I'm back on chrome. Strange the different behaviour!

~El~Jefe~ · Post by **~El~Jefe~** » Wed Nov 04, 2009 10:36 pm

Yes, I liked it until it stopped working in windows7 64 after an autoupdate.

was fine on all sites besides unusual ones like:

facebook
gmail

You know, those rarified oddball sites. Glad I signed up for beta!

ascl · Post by **ascl** » Wed Nov 04, 2009 10:56 pm

I just installed the dev channel of google chrome, which has extensions enabled... including ad-block! seems to work well.

~El~Jefe~ · Post by **~El~Jefe~** » Thu Nov 05, 2009 7:07 am

chrome is not 64 bit. how depressing. the 64 bit browsers have some serious pep it appears.

ascl · Post by **ascl** » Thu Nov 05, 2009 7:18 am

64 bit browsers are currently pretty pointless, as not very many 64 bit plugins exist.

alleycat · Post by **alleycat** » Thu Nov 05, 2009 7:27 am

I've been back and forth between browsers and have settled on Firefox because of Adblock, which is the best implementation of this feature than any other browser. The one thing that I find completely stupid about FF (and every other browser apart from Opera) is that when I hit the back button, it reloads the page. It makes navigating around pages laborious and I don't understand why they do this, and why more people aren't annoyed by it. The amount of combined worldwide bandwidth wasted on this alone must be enormous. I've raised the point in a forum somewhere and was told that it's something to do with the object model and maintaining standards. Well, I couldn't care less. If I hit the back button on anything I want to see exactly what I was looking at, and I want to see it instantly, and I shouldn't be forced to pull more data off the net. Surely it wouldn't be too hard to at least make this a configuration option so that we've got a choice? If Opera can do it... </rant>

ascl · Post by **ascl** » Thu Nov 05, 2009 7:29 am

Hah! I totally agree on the back button thing! Its always annoyed me!

alleycat · Post by **alleycat** » Thu Nov 05, 2009 7:44 am

Yeah, I know I'm not the only one. All my non-geek friends think it's stupid and ask me how to fix it. All I can do is shrug my shoulders. I'm astonished that this hasn't become more of an "issue". It's bizarre.

Tephras · Post by **Tephras** » Thu Nov 05, 2009 6:31 pm

When I hit the back button in Firefox it behave just as it does in Internet Explorer. It might have to do with the OS you are using, try to change the value of the preference browser.backspace_action.

alleycat · Post by **alleycat** » Fri Nov 06, 2009 7:49 am

Thanks for the suggestion, but I don't think that has anything to do with it. IE also has the same problem as I described above. Opera is the only browser I know of that does not have this behaviour (unfortunately it has other shortcomings).

ascl · Post by **ascl** » Sat Nov 07, 2009 6:03 am

alley cat is saying that when he hits back, the browser navigates to the previous page and reloads it, which, depending on the complexity of the page and bandwidth used etc, can take some time. He (and I) would prefer it if it remembered the exact page and just re-displayed that.

I suspect it would add possibly a lot to memory usage... but memory is cheap! However, the bigger sticking point is probably section 14.9.2 of RFC 2616, in relation to 'no-store'

"If sent in a response, a cache MUST NOT store any part of either this
response or the request that elicited it. This directive applies to both
non-shared and shared caches."

Lastly, it seems some web developers depend on certain caching behaviours. Its a much discussed issue... and I doubt its going to change in FF.