A quick note on Firefox 3.

Banshee · Last edited by Banshee on Fri Jun 20, 2008 2:50 am; edited 2 times in total

I've downloaded Firefox 3 on this tuesday and I'm glad that this site is running perfectly on it, without any need to touch it. Some other sites did not had the same luck, such as Hotmail (the full mode), which refuses to work, so I'm always forced to use the classic mode. In overall, all C&C sites I've visited had no problems whatsoever with Firefox 3.

This version of Firefox loads much faster and use less RAM. In my computer, it is using 206mb of RAM plus some virtual memory, with 31 tabs and 8 extensions. The old Firefox used more than 300mb at these conditions, so I'm quite satisfied. There are some minor improvements on the interface as well and it is more compatible with W3C standards than older versions. It is highly recommended for those who use Internet Explorer of any kind:

http://www.getfirefox.com

In a quick note, the site also loads well on Opera 9.50, except for the news which wasn't supposed to be centralized. We'll look up for a fix for it in a later time.

gufu · Posted: Fri Jun 20, 2008 1:33 am Post subject:

Meh, I'll stick with Opera.

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Banshee · Posted: Fri Jun 20, 2008 1:45 am Post subject:

Opera is also a good browser. Just doesn't much cool extensions and interface is not as good as Firefox. But it is faster than FF3.

gufu · Posted: Fri Jun 20, 2008 1:59 am Post subject:

I agree, recent Opera update made it fly.

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Banshee · Posted: Fri Jun 20, 2008 2:54 am Post subject:

Just downloaded Opera 9.50 here and, as you said, the thing is flying! Interface is also better than the older versions. PPM loads on light speed, with a little issue on the news, which was supposed to be left aligned and not centralized. To be honest, I've never seen ppmsite.com being loaded so fast here in any other browser. Both FF3 and Opera are great browsers.

gufu · Posted: Fri Jun 20, 2008 3:32 am Post subject:

Left aligned? Doesn't seem to be so for me. Must be some random loading issue? I have no idea.

But netherless, I'll install this FF as well. Testing the sites through different browsers never hurts.

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John Galt · Posted: Fri Jun 20, 2008 4:24 am Post subject:

Fanboywars in 3... 2... 1...

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I stick with IE. #Tongue

Though I do agree FF is now using lesser resources. This version is...well...suitable for most kinds of stuff.

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Banshee · Posted: Fri Jun 20, 2008 4:35 am Post subject:

The news post content was left aligned here. Btw, Firefox 3 uses less RAM than Opera. Opera 9.50 with 4 tabs and no extensions used 224mb after some browsing. My firefox with 30+ tabs and 8 extensions is still using 202mb.

Anyway, both browsers are great in my opinion.

daTS · Posted: Fri Jun 20, 2008 4:38 am Post subject:

I use whatever is convenient at the time, however firefox is my favorite... who doesn't love that nifty fox looking like he's having sex with south america? Smile

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gufu · Posted: Fri Jun 20, 2008 4:41 am Post subject:

Alright, alright. Heh, relax - we'll see if FF becomes the most downloadable browser in the world.

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Dutchygamer · Posted: Fri Jun 20, 2008 9:06 am Post subject:

Hmm, I think I'd stick with with FF2 for now. It gives me anything I need for now.

EVA-251 · Posted: Fri Jun 20, 2008 7:53 pm Post subject:

Firefox is overrated. Nuff said.

Memory usage, speed of browser are sort of irrelevant when you have 4GB of ram to spare and a high speed connection.

I have noticed almost no difference between IE8 with IE7Pro + Page Prefetching and FF3 in terms of speed.

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Clazzy · Posted: Sat Jun 21, 2008 2:03 am Post subject:

Memory usage above about 100MB is ridiculous for a web browser (and I have 2GB of RAM), fortunately FF3 has fixed that. I'm sure Opera is a brilliant browser but I've never quite got into it partly for its lack of extensibility and partly because of its interface (although mouse gestures are great and so is the forward/backward using the two mouse buttons). Generally, unless I have a stupid (+20) tabs open, Firefox only uses excessive levels of RAM if a flash video is loading, this is Linux anyway.
By the way Eva, page prefetching is bad. Very bad. It's bad particularly for smaller websites because they tend to have limited bandwidth and by predownloading web pages it causes their bandwidth to be used up. I know Fasterfox with forced prefetching enabled is frowned upon although any prefetching ultimately (while standards compliant) isn't all that great for websites.
Ultimately, IE isn't very standards compliant and many webmasters have to resort to bad coding practice to get their sites working properly with IE, especially IE6 and below. I've tried and failed to get sites working properly with IE6/7, I'm sure I'm not the only person here.

Anything is better than that pathetic excuse of a browser called Safari though. Webkit might be good at rendering pages but it's not a very good implementation, although I don't exactly like Konqueror either...

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Crash · Posted: Sat Jun 21, 2008 9:47 am Post subject:

Gufu wrote:

Meh, I'll stick with Opera.

Good boy. I stick with Opera too. Not gonna start a war now. #Tongue

ORCACommander · Posted: Sat Jun 21, 2008 12:13 pm Post subject:

jesus 31 tabs how do you know what you got up there?

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Vinifera7 · Posted: Sat Jun 21, 2008 7:38 pm Post subject:

Destiny wrote:

I stick with IE. #Tongue

As a web developer I am obligated to say "ztype you!" #Mad

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Banshee · Posted: Sat Jun 21, 2008 11:10 pm Post subject:

ORCACommander wrote:

jesus 31 tabs how do you know what you got up there?

Yea, most of things are useful and I check them often. Few are sites that I'm browsing at the moment and some are sites that I may use in a near future or stuff I can't forget.

Sir Modsalot · Posted: Sun Jun 22, 2008 3:47 am Post subject:

EVA-251 wrote:

Firefox is overrated. Nuff said.

Doesn't make it a bad browser. Don't bash senselessly. Fool.

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