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I finally got around to downloading Firefox 3 this afternoon, and so far I'm very impressed.
One of my little habits is to have lots of tabs open. Browsing LJ produces about thirty per day, with interesting stuff / posts to respond to later. These add up :) and it's not unusual to have six or seven hundred open.
Firefox 2 had problems with this. I've got plenty of RAM, so FF2 taking just under 1G wasn't a big issue, but it could get slooow to open a new tab and, especially, to download something. CPU usage would go to 100% and I couldn't do anything with FF2 for several minutes. I more or less had to set the FF2 process to 'below normal' priority, or it would interfere with everything else. Restoring all of the tabs after a restart took a while too.
FF3, on the other hand, is still usable! It can download things and keep working! Reloading a couple of hundred tabs takes about two minutes, not over ten!
The add-on that makes this possible, Tab Mix Plus, isn't officially working with FF3, but you can get a development build from the developers here. Highly recommended.
Oh, I forgot to also update the AdBlock Plus add-on, which filters out lots of ads. My ghod, some sites are hideous without it - I'd forgot just how many ads they want to have. Even more recommended.
One of my little habits is to have lots of tabs open. Browsing LJ produces about thirty per day, with interesting stuff / posts to respond to later. These add up :) and it's not unusual to have six or seven hundred open.
Firefox 2 had problems with this. I've got plenty of RAM, so FF2 taking just under 1G wasn't a big issue, but it could get slooow to open a new tab and, especially, to download something. CPU usage would go to 100% and I couldn't do anything with FF2 for several minutes. I more or less had to set the FF2 process to 'below normal' priority, or it would interfere with everything else. Restoring all of the tabs after a restart took a while too.
FF3, on the other hand, is still usable! It can download things and keep working! Reloading a couple of hundred tabs takes about two minutes, not over ten!
The add-on that makes this possible, Tab Mix Plus, isn't officially working with FF3, but you can get a development build from the developers here. Highly recommended.
Oh, I forgot to also update the AdBlock Plus add-on, which filters out lots of ads. My ghod, some sites are hideous without it - I'd forgot just how many ads they want to have. Even more recommended.
