Run Firefox faster
 

Just did this, wanted to spread the wealth if you didn't know it already.

Or just get google chrome.

+1. It took a while to warm up to, but Chrome is a man's browser. Every tab appears as a separate instance in task manager so you can see the memory and CPU usage of each page. It also has its own built-in task manager, which further breaks down the processes, showing the plugins separate from the tabs. Shockwave hogging too much CPU time? Just kill it and move on.

Absolutely the best browser since Lynx.

I'm loving it. The "New Tab Page" that shows your most used websites is awesome and it's very minimalist looking. Im loving it on the Windows computers I use. Can't wait for it to come out for OS X.

+4 on Chrome


Porn mode is sick.

haha i just downloaded chrome. giving it a shot

Hmmm, going to have to try it again. Tried it once, didn't like it. I guess being a Firefox guy since it came out, it's hard to go elsewhere.

There's a porn mode??

I will give Chrome a try, I didn't try when it first came out because of the bad reviews it received.

By the way if you want a light weight browser that works just about anywhere that IE works try K-Meleon.

Well; I'm a Firefox user and tried your suggestion.

It sure is much faster.

Thanks

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Ahahaha, they know what people use that feature for!

http://www.boingboing.net/images/x_2008/xxxtrek.jpg

Set browsers to "porn"!

Google is BigBrother. :it's a conspiracy man:

Chris

It doesn't sound like Chrome will do anything that firefox will not for me (that i need/want). Sticking with the tried and true...

Thanks for the suggestion, seems to be working pretty well.

I just noticed that Chrome's footprint on my PC is 22mb vs. 58mb for Firefox with one instance of each running...wow!!

Another chrome user here...

This thread made me switch to chrome... So far, im liking it.

The first release I tried seemed a tad flakey, and it took me a while to warm up to it, but now it's the default browser on all my systems.

I've played the browser game for years. My first exposure to the web was via Lynx, since at the time (mid 90s) my only connection was via shell access to the VAX (VMS) and Alpha (Unix) machines on the UF campus. Which was fine, since I was still using DOS as my primary OS (I loaded Windows only to do WYSIWYG word processing) so I just kept using ProComm Plus, the same terminal I'd been running since the BBS era.

In '96 I believe it was, I cam across TIA, and decided to give it a shot. We complied and ran it on one of the Vaxen, loaded Trumpet Winsock on the client side, and downloaded Mosaic.

Then Netscape Navigator happened, so we jumped to that. About that time, Netscape also released an email client, so we figured out how to get SMTP out of the Unix cluster, and downloaded that as well. Goodbye, Pine.

Netscape was the browser of choice for quite a long time, until the early 00s when I decided to give Opera a try. Love at first sight. Mouse Gestures was what did it for me, since at the time mice didn't have side buttons. But with time, it seemed like the browser was being incompatible with more and more sites, and was crash-prone.

Enter FireFox. The world's best bookmark manager, bar none. And it remembers which tabs I had open after I close it. K-rad. Ran this for years, but like many of you, found that over time it turned into more and more of a resource hog. Not unusual at all to find it parked in > 500MB of core. It was FireFox, not Adobe Premiere, that made me upgrade to 2GB on my primary system.

And now we have Chrome. At first, I hated it. No menu bar? WTF kind of crippled shit was this? But I've grown to love it. It's fast, reliable, compatible, and once you figure out where the eggs are, it turns out to be a real man's browser. It's the built-in task manager that does it for me.


Hmmm. Downloading.

Seriously am I the only one using Opera?

I have been running Chrome since it came out sometime last year. I really like it. I get a kick out of the language one certain tabs and windows. Like, "stats for nerds" and so on.

Hmm might have to try that.

Nope, I use it. Fast, good features, more web standards compliant than IE. Occasionally I'll run across a site that IE renders better, and of course I test all my web dev work in IE because most people use it, but otherwise it's my preferred browser. Version 10 looks to be even more promising; the alpha aces the Acid3 test.

Ooohhh just downloaded. Definitely seems faster. I was on IE.:sign0058:

Bonus points as I will be installing it at home also is the wife will no longer see the favorites, as she won't even know to open the Chrome program file.:laugh:

Opera FTW!!!! I have been using Opera since back in the days that you had to pay for it. Yes I can proudly say I paid for a web browser. Back when you all had several IE windows, or Netscape windows open I had tabs. It has been the only broswer that has always had tabs that always work and is multiplatform. It is so nice having the exactly the same browser no matter which OS I decide to boot in the morning.

I'm going to bump this because the new Chrome 2.0 beta came out yesterday. Here's the benchmarks:

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Cb4VGgCESE...400/graph1.png
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Cb4VGgCESE...400/graph2.png

That means if you thought original chrome was fast.. this one is silly fast. Again, it is a beta.

Geez, I just loaded it yesterday and have version 1.0.154.48:vash:

EDIT: I just checked the "About Google Chrome" and it says that I am on the current update.

What you are referring to is the "Current stable" version. Chrome 2.0 is beta.

Google Chrome (BETA)

Done.

Mo betta.

Mo fasta.

Thanks.