[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.
>The Internet -- Enabler of Guilty Pleasures Guilty pleasures?? On the internet?????
On behalf of myself and everybody else who has only used the internet for e-mail and the occational trip to Mapquest, I thank you for bringing this to my attention.
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[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.
>The Internet -- Enabler of Guilty Pleasures
Guilty pleasures?? On the internet?????
On behalf of myself and everybody else who has only used the internet for e-mail and the occational trip to Mapquest, I thank you for bringing this to my attention.