Firefox with extensions
by
spudnic
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· Score: 4, Interesting
Just about everything in the review is available now, and has been for quite awhile, through extensions?
It seems that future development of firefox should be on the core application and let the extension developers handle the pretty stuff.
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load "linux",8,1
so I'll just keep asking...and getting no answer
by
Tumbleweed
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· Score: 4, Interesting
Multi-threaded UI yet? Anybody? Anybody?
Bueller?
The longer this is put off, the harder I suspect it's going to be to put it, due to a more complicated codebase.
Lay the foundation first, folks, PLEASE.
Re:I just went trhough the changelog...
by
xigxag
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· Score: 4, Interesting
Too bad there's no way to mod a post as "potentially life changing." I've been putting off trying out Opera since before it went free. Your post made me decide to give it another try, and so far (admittedly only an hour or so of heavy surfing) I love it. I was able to get it to connect to my banking site. It does phpbb better than FF. My machine seems about 50% faster, and memory use is something like 200 megs lower than my FF installation.
Most importantly, I didn't have to install any extensions to get it to work acceptably.
If there's one functionality that should be built into FF 2.0, there should be a brainless way to export and import your extensions, forms, passwords and bookmarks in one "FF2go" zipped bundle so that when you reinstall it on another computer, you can get started right away with your old configuration.
-- There are two kinds of people: 1) those who start arrays with one and 1) those who start them with zero.
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Just about everything in the review is available now, and has been for quite awhile, through extensions?
It seems that future development of firefox should be on the core application and let the extension developers handle the pretty stuff.
load "linux",8,1
Multi-threaded UI yet? Anybody? Anybody?
Bueller?
The longer this is put off, the harder I suspect it's going to be to put it, due to a more complicated codebase.
Lay the foundation first, folks, PLEASE.
Too bad there's no way to mod a post as "potentially life changing." I've been putting off trying out Opera since before it went free. Your post made me decide to give it another try, and so far (admittedly only an hour or so of heavy surfing) I love it. I was able to get it to connect to my banking site. It does phpbb better than FF. My machine seems about 50% faster, and memory use is something like 200 megs lower than my FF installation.
Most importantly, I didn't have to install any extensions to get it to work acceptably.
If there's one functionality that should be built into FF 2.0, there should be a brainless way to export and import your extensions, forms, passwords and bookmarks in one "FF2go" zipped bundle so that when you reinstall it on another computer, you can get started right away with your old configuration.
There are two kinds of people: 1) those who start arrays with one and 1) those who start them with zero.