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Firefox 3.6.4 Released With Out-of-Process Plugins
DragonHawk writes "Mozilla Firefox 3.6.4 went to general release today. The big new feature in this release is out-of-process plugins (OOPP). This means things like Flash, Java, QuickTime, etc., all run in separate processes, so when Flash decides to crash, it won't take your browser out with it. If Flash starts consuming all the CPU it can find, you can kill it without nuking your browser session. I've been using this feature since it was in the 'nightly build' stage, and it was still more stable than 3.6.3, just because Flash was isolated." And reader Trailrunner7 supplies another compelling reason to download 3.6.4: "Security researcher Michal Zalewski has identified a problem with the way Firefox handles links that are opened in a new browser window or tab, enabling attackers to inject arbitrary code into the new window or tab while still keeping a deceptive URL in the browser's address bar. The vulnerability, which Mozilla has fixed in version 3.6.4, has the effect of tricking users into thinking that they're visiting a legitimate site while instead sending arbitrary attacker-controlled code to their browsers."
Opera people always crack me up. Don't get me wrong Opera is a fine browser and may be better in this an that. However it it was really all that, it would have a much larger fan base. I just do not like it and judging by all the political moves they have to keep making just to survive it seems most others do not as well.
Just because they have had something for a while now, does not mean that Firefox, which is a far more popular browser, getting it is not a big deal. Opera has good plugins, but they have never been as good or easy to use. I think Chrome has already passed them up on quality plugins.
I do empathize though. If Opera would have made better decisions on distribution of the browser freely early on who knows where they could be?
I'm tired of these people talking about shaving a billionth of a second off of initial page loading and somehow expecting that to mean something to me.
I've been using Firefox since it was called The Phoenix browser, and the same problems are always there. The UI is slow, and the scrolling is jerky as fuck. This browser chokes on simple HTML pages that would have scrolled fine when I was browsing on my 486 with IE4. In every other browser I can smoothly scroll pages that have flash objects an scripts running all over the place, but FF chokes on plain HTML pages that are nothing but a few icons, and an HTML table structure. It's almost like FF is clearing out RAM and then reloading the whole page from scratch every time I flick the mouse wheel. It gets 10x worse if page zooming is active.
The improved download manager is also full of the same old problems. I have my screen set to dim every 10 minutes if I've been inactive. The PC doesn't sleep, or hibernate, or anything, just a dimmed screen. No other program or browser cares about this, but the FF download manager decides to cancel all my downloads and act like my PC is in hibernate mode.
The program doesn't honor the settings for what to do when certain file types are encountered. I don't know how many fucking times I've had to set it NOT to open PDF files, but it keeps doing it anyways. I finally just got rid of acrobat all together. Not sure how you can call this a secure browser when it opens it's legs up and accepts every invalid, malware injecting PDF file on the net.
It also doesn't follow the update settings. Automatic updates are nice, but not when I've selected the option to not even do the check. This is really bad on a limited user account, where FF will automatically disable itself until someone with admin privileges can come and enable the program to finish the update. (this may have been fixed recently, but it was a problem for years...)
Firefox needs to stop setting meaningless metrics to call itself the fastest browser. I can make a side-by-side performance video too. It will show IE, Chrome, Opera and anything else scroll through and interact with the most CPU hogging sites on the net, while FF is chugging trying to scroll a .txt file.
I only use now because I've gotten used to some of the extensions and behavior. But as a browser, it's not actually good at any real world usage scenarios anymore. It has some nice perks when it comes to configuring misc behavior, which is why I ditched Chrome after trying it. But it's the worst browser by far when it comes to actually interacting with the web.
WTF? Can someone fix this troll-moderation?
It seems someone just couldn’t stand the facts.
Am I the only one who noticed that the moderations here got worse and worse?
As if people would replace basic reasoning and logic with emotional rage and religious nutjobbery.
Protip: I’m using Firefox as my main browser. I recommend Opera to non-web-developers. And after having gone to 5 years of torture of having to develop for IE5 and 6, I stopped talking to people who prefer IE. If you had done it, you’d understand, and wonder why I’m still so nice. ;)
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