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  1. Re:Not without RHEL 4 support I won't by sowth · · Score: 1 · on Firefox To Get a Nag Screen For Upgrades

    There are alternate builds. pigfoot - Swiftfox - one for the Mac. I am sure there has to be one somewhere which fits your requirements. Problem is finding it.

  2. Re:shuffle by BiggusJimmus · · Score: 1 · on Firefox 3 Beta 1 Review

    [quote]You aren't alone on doing the shuffle - at least among OSX users! Firefox is great because of the extensions, but FF2 is just bloatware on OSX and it is dog slow.[/quote] Most definitely. I've been using FireFox and the Mozilla suite for years and years now. When I got my MacBook, I was quite chagrined to find just how ridiculously slow and bloated it was. Then a few weeks ago, I stumbled upon an Optimized Build of 2.0.0.8 for OS X that works great. I haven't run any benchmarks on it or anything, but the painful waits as firefox would chug and chug along are basically gone. Before I found this, I found Firefox to be damn near unusable on OS X, and I was running it on a 2GHz Core 2 Duo with 2GB of RAM.

  3. Chicken and Egg by GregNorc · · Score: 1 · on Firefox Lite And Old PCs Could Crush IE
    Here's the problem: Most people use Firefox for it's extensions, spellchecking, and other useful features.

    Most people also hate that Firefox uses large amounts of memory due to it's extensions, spellchecking, and other useful features.

    There is a "Firefox Lite", at least for OSX. It's called Camino. I briefly used it myself, and while I do agree it was fast, the lack of extensions was a dealbreaker.

    Now yes, we could make a Firefox Lite, but why? Mozilla =/= Microsoft. They simply want people to be able to use a quality web browser. If that browser happens to be Opera (as one parent pointed out), we should put aside personal biases and point users with slower PCs towards Opera.

    On another note, those experiencing problems with Firefox, and who are using OSX, try this. Apparently they put in some architecture specific code to speed up the browser, and it's still compatible with firefox extensions.

  4. Optimized Firefox 2.0.0.3 Mac G4 | G5 | Intel by not_hylas(+) · · Score: 1 · on Firefox Going the Big and Bloated IE Way?

    Why can't the "Official" Firefox have optimized builds?

    Sounds like a plan to me:
    Optimized Firefox 2.0.0.3 Mac G4 | G5 | Intel

    http://www.beatnikpad.com/archives/2007/03/29/fire fox-2002

  5. Re:S L O W on M A Cs by Jerry+Rivers · · Score: 1 · on Help Make Firefox On Mac Suck Less

    "Can someone code an OPTIMIZED universal binary of FireFox for OS X Macintosh computers?"

    Optimized versions have been around for a while.

    http://www.beatnikpad.com/archives/2006/10/26/fire fox-20

  6. resizable search window by Anoraknid+the+Sartor · · Score: 1 · on Help Make Firefox On Mac Suck Less

    In Safari the "search" field next to the url bar is drag resizable. It's the one thing I miss in Firefox.

    Javascript heavy sites - particularly google maps mashups - seem to run a lot faster in firefox. It is also a lot less flaky than safari when doing a large amount of data entry through forms.

    Firefox window placement can be a bit flaky on dual monitor setup - the preference panel sometimes decides it will only live in one corner of the screen.

    For those who want Mac widgets in firefox, they are available in special builds...
    http://www.beatnikpad.com/archives/2007/03/29/fire fox-2002

  7. Re:Cool by TgmBxA!X8(TNDWr_,+xv · · Score: 2, Interesting · on Windows Drivers for Mac Rolling Out

    If you really can't find a Mac equivalent or a more Mac-like way of doing what you're accustomed to on Windows, Q is a Cocoa port of QEMU, and apparently it works fairly well. YMMV.

  8. Re:Camino by mrchaotica · · Score: 1 · on Firefox for Intel Macs Planned for March

    Firefox can look pretty darn good on OS X; you just have to find the right theme (for example, I like these), as well as some OS X-like widgets (such as these or these).

  9. Here's a secret: Deer Park by thatguywhoiam · · Score: 1 · on Firefox Secrets
    If you are on a Mac G5 machine, go get yourself a copy of Deer Park, which is optimized for that proc.

    Its reeeeely fast.

  10. Wait, is this supposed to help M$? by Daedius · · Score: 5, Informative · on Microsoft Ends IE for Mac

    Guess that just means more firefox users on Mac now. Now with versions optimized toward their architectures now too.

  11. Re:Good news! by marmoset · · Score: 5, Informative · on Intel Developer Macs Outperform G5s

    That's becaus you're running the wrong builds. :)

  12. Re:browser security check by mattkinabrewmindspri · · Score: 1 · on Microsoft Not Worried about FireFox
    What version of OS X are you using?

    I had it run all tests, and on my system, the G5-optimized version of Firefox 1.0 made it through the test with zero vulnerabilities found. My system runs OS X 10.3.7 with all available updates(7S215).

  13. Re:Great! by tdemark · · Score: 2, Informative · on Firefox Reaches 10 Million Downloads

    I like Safari as much as the next guy, but I've started to find myself using Firefox G5 more and more. It's a G5-optimized version of Firefox. (There's also a G4 version for more recent G4s)

    Frankly, it's a lot faster than Safari and does its thing with less processor load. Every time I use Safari to go to an SSL page or a page with heavy javascript my processor fans ramp up from 300/300 rpm to 2000/1000 rpm. The same pages with FFG5 (or even just FF) do not cause the fan speeds to change at all.

    This really wouldn't be noteworthy if Safari was using that extra power to be speedy, but it is much, much slower than FF (especially on such pages).