News - Firefox 3.6 Beta 1 available for download

[HEXUS]

Introduces a number of new features, including built-in support for themes.

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[miniyazz]

If they could just fix memory leaks (less important) and high CPU usage with multiple tabs (after I've had it open half a day with as few as a dozen tabs, it starts to freeze for half a second every few seconds with full CPU on one core - 3.45GHz Q6600) I'd be happy. Especially annoying when watching videos.

Hell, if they could make it multicore-supporting, that'd help a lot..

[Grey M@a]

Originally Posted by miniyazz

If they could just fix memory leaks (less important) and high CPU usage with multiple tabs (after I've had it open half a day with as few as a dozen tabs, it starts to freeze for half a second every few seconds with full CPU on one core - 3.45GHz Q6600) I'd be happy. Especially annoying when watching videos.

Hell, if they could make it multicore-supporting, that'd help a lot..

These are the two main reasons why I swapped to Chrome for my general browsing and when I need to use a specific add-on that I can only use with FireFox I will use FF for that.

[aidanjt]

Originally Posted by miniyazz

If they could just fix memory leaks (less important) and high CPU usage with multiple tabs (after I've had it open half a day with as few as a dozen tabs, it starts to freeze for half a second every few seconds with full CPU on one core - 3.45GHz Q6600) I'd be happy. Especially annoying when watching videos.

Hell, if they could make it multicore-supporting, that'd help a lot..

Are you serious?.. Don't be silly, there's wayyyyyyyy more important things that Firefox needs before fixing critical bugs which have existed since version 1. Like, moving widgits around, tinkering with menu options, changing default themes, and other super important stuff like whining about distros patching their bugs and complaining that it will tarnish the Firefox brand, etc...

[abaxas]

Originally Posted by aidanjt

Are you serious?.. Don't be silly, there's wayyyyyyyy more important things that Firefox needs before fixing critical bugs which have existed since version 1. Like, moving widgits around, tinkering with menu options, changing default themes, and other super important stuff like whining about distros patching their bugs and complaining that it will tarnish the Firefox brand, etc...

+1

Firefox needs some kind of feature freeze. The product is great, but it should be as close to faultless as possible.

[Syllopsium]

Originally Posted by miniyazz

If they could just fix memory leaks (less important) and high CPU usage with multiple tabs (after I've had it open half a day with as few as a dozen tabs, it starts to freeze for half a second every few seconds with full CPU on one core - 3.45GHz Q6600) I'd be happy. Especially annoying when watching videos.

Hell, if they could make it multicore-supporting, that'd help a lot..

I've not had those problems on 3.6a1 (I did on 3.5 though) - have you actually tried the 3.6 alpha?

PK

[Noli]

Yeah, after using it for so long, I kinda feel Firefox is losing its way a little bit now.

And after using Google Chrome, using Firefox again just feels so *slow* - really, if anyone can tell me a properly effective and free way of getting rid of ads on Chrome, I could stop using Firefox (+ad block) entirely... (Have googled and tried various things but nothing's truly effective other than Ad Muncher, but that costs...)

[aidanjt]

Install privoxy and set Chromes proxy settings to it.

[Mathonar]

Originally Posted by miniyazz

If they could just fix memory leaks (less important) and high CPU usage with multiple tabs (after I've had it open half a day with as few as a dozen tabs, it starts to freeze for half a second every few seconds with full CPU on one core - 3.45GHz Q6600) I'd be happy. Especially annoying when watching videos.

Hell, if they could make it multicore-supporting, that'd help a lot..

They're working on it under the Electrolysis project

[aceuk]

Noli. Have you tried AdBlock+ for Chrome?

[miniyazz]

Originally Posted by Syllopsium

I've not had those problems on 3.6a1 (I did on 3.5 though) - have you actually tried the 3.6 alpha?

Originally Posted by Mathonar

They're working on it under the Electrolysis project

These both make me happy

I've not tried either the 3.6 alpha or beta - but I'll deffo be upgrading as soon as I've checked my main extensions'll still work

Originally Posted by aidanjt

Are you serious?.. Don't be silly, there's wayyyyyyyy more important things that Firefox needs before fixing critical bugs which have existed since version 1. Like, moving widgits around, tinkering with menu options, changing default themes, and other super important stuff like whining about distros patching their bugs and complaining that it will tarnish the Firefox brand, etc...

[aidanjt]

Originally Posted by miniyazz

And don't forget that they need to jam in support for the latest buzzword of the month.

[miniyazz]

Hmm, preliminary results are suggesting the new FF may be made from win, with no slowdowns and 64 tabs spread over two windows. Although I did notice a hint that they tried to pretend tabs are windows with the new Win7 taskbar, like iexplore did.. but it's stopped atm, possibly because of the number of tabs open. If it comes back I may have to shoot it, I hate that 'feature' and disabled it on iexplore pronto.

Edit: although it does appear to have an annoying habit of bringing a window with a foreground automatically refreshing tab to the front if minimised.

[badass]

I wonder if the tunnel visioned developers have finally worked out that when I click to run firefox and start typing in the addresss bar, that is where I want to type! So, when my homepage loads, do not move the cursor to the search box in google or anywhere else.

That goes for you too microsoft.

[miniyazz]

Originally Posted by badass

I wonder if the tunnel visioned developers have finally worked out that when I click to run firefox and start typing in the addresss bar, that is where I want to type! So, when my homepage loads, do not move the cursor to the search box in google or anywhere else.

That goes for you too microsoft.

Alt+D will solve all your problems.


Unfortunately, I spoke to soon been running for just under 24 hours now, with perhaps 6 hours usage, including opening and closing a few dozen tabs on top of my current 60 odd. Memory usage has doubled to just under 900MB and every 10 seconds or so CPU spikes for a second or so, during which time FF freezes. CPU time currently sits at just over 3 hours.. which means it's doing full CPU usage for one in every eight seconds, disregarding the few hours after starting it when there were no such issues - so in reality somewhat higher average CPU usage for most of the time.

[aidanjt]

Originally Posted by miniyazz

Alt+D will solve all your problems.

What he means is, when you load firefox, hit Alt+D, start typing in an address, when the homepage loads before you finish typing, the page will steal the focus and move the caret into the google search text box. Which *is* exceptionally annoying.