Do I have to think in Russian to use it?

It feels snappier.

just leaving this here.............

Google Chrome version 16.0.912.66

/Not using it, but google told me this....

dittybopper: Do I have to think in Russian to use it?

golf clap

Everyone knows only fat old people use Firefox and all the net elite use Chrome. I wonder why Firefox hasn't just given up and gone out of business from the shame of it alone. I mean eww, fat old people.

suckerpunch: This is why I quit FF and moved to Chrome. By the time the extension authors catch up, FF drops a new version and shiat's all retarded.

It just irks me that Firefox was intended to be the fix to IE, but now it's worse of a memory leak.

dittybopper: Do I have to think in Russian to use it?

Nice!

make me some tea: Why the hell are they putting out minor revisions as major releases? It's rather confusing.

Because idiots assume that IE "9" is better than Firefox "3" because of the higher number.

farbles: Everyone knows only fat old people use Firefox and all the net elite use Chrome. I wonder why Firefox hasn't just given up and gone out of business from the shame of it alone. I mean eww, fat old people.

Pleeeeeeeez!
Everyone knows only boring, whiny hipsters use Chrome, and all the responsible adults use Firefox. I wonder why Google hasn't given up and gone out of business from the shame of it alone. I mean eww, hipsters.

Fat old people use IE

Firefox: ALMOST as many updates as Flash!

LesserEvil: Because they've given up trying to fix the big problems.

This. There are major defects *still* in the browser that have been around and officially tracked since version 2.
Since version 2.
Since bloody version 2.

downstairs: UNC_Samurai: It just irks me that Firefox was intended to be the fix to IE, but now it's worse of a memory leak

People keep complaining back and forth about IE and/or Firefox being a memory leak. I use both all day and have never had an issue.

My 6 windows with ~5 tabs each was running around 1.7GB of ram the other day. No flash plugins, only a few images per tab, mostly text.

Its memory usage seems rather random.

I don't get why people are so up-in-arms about the version number change.
Browser version number isn't what breaks add-ons. It's incrementing the extension API version number that breaks extension compatibility, but that only changes when there are actual API changes.

Sure, it seems weird that less-significant changes occur as major-version updates, but in the past there were also significant changes to the browser that occurred within point releases.

Basically, the whole idea of major.minor version numbering is obsolete, thanks to the rapid-release cycle of so much software (esp. open source software). I think if you do monthly releases, your version numbering should just be a date, rather than an arbitrary number that people ascribe meaning to when there is none.

LesserEvil:
I'd still be using Firefox if it didn't eventually devolve into freezing for 10 seconds at a time, until even after restarting Firefox the problem immediately returns... until I reboot.


I had that issue it took getting updates of all my extensions/addons to make it go away. Happened going from 6 to 7. Didn't have the issue when I went from 7 to 8.


downstairs: UNC_Samurai: It just irks me that Firefox was intended to be the fix to IE, but now it's worse of a memory leak

People keep complaining back and forth about IE and/or Firefox being a memory leak. I use both all day and have never had an issue.

I don't even let FF cache to disk anymore, Memory peaked at ~1.7gigs has dropped back to about 600megs while idle. FF has been running for a few days.

//Firebug will eat so much memory it's not funny, it only gets enabled when needed

Fabric_Man:
Pleeeeeeeez!
Everyone knows only boring, whiny hipsters use Chrome, and all the responsible adults use Firefox. I wonder why Google hasn't given up and gone out of business from the shame of it alone. I mean eww, hipsters.

Fat old people use IE

Ah, I see the problem. Fossils use IE, they like the fact it takes two minutes to warm up like their old radios and TVs. Fat old people use Firefox, they're over 30 and feeling senility's first bites while trendy young people who lead the world in cool and sharp all use Chrome. Since you're obviously over 30, you see "old" as "older than you" which colors your perceptions somewhat. "Old" really is older than 30, which means you remember Ronald Reagan as a living person rather than an American demi-God. Sorry, dude, history's moved on past you and your grainy black and white memories and crank start cars.

Anybody got ways to get to Firefox 8.0's cache?

When I went to update firefox today, my current version was 4.x.x. After updating it is now 8.x.x. I build this machine in November of last year....

FFS...who really gets THIS involved over a web browser?!? You people really spend that much time thinking about your browser? You act like you are talking about tweaks to get the best performance out of your outdated systems to play the latest games. It's...a...web....browser

Gestankfaust: FFS...who really gets THIS involved over a web browser?!? You people really spend that much time thinking about your browser? You act like you are talking about tweaks to get the best performance out of your outdated systems to play the latest games. It's...a...web....browser

Spoken like a person who's too young to fully appreciate just how much of their current web browsing experience was shaped by a years-long browser war that started long before Firefox forked off the Mozilla suite.

/ bring back the old Mozilla mascot!

farbles:

You filthy whippersnapper! You think you're funny, don't ya? When I was your age, I had to walk to school 30 miles, uphill both ways, with my brother on my back! And we used cassette tapes and LIKED it! And cable only had 30 channels... in standard definition!

And if I wanted to browse the web, we had to use Lynx or Mosaic. That's all there was! And it took half an hour to download a 10 second porn clip! And we paid by the minute for our ISP service and LIKED it!

Uh... what were we talking about? Oh yes. My point is Ronald Reagan would have never stood for this Chrome nonsense. We need to fight the Soviets! Now excuse me while I drive my Studebaker over to the VFW post to talk about how uncomfortable minorities make me!

//Turns 31 in Feb.

All the new rapid-release FF are shiat. I went back to 3.6 on the wife's computer, and it actually sort of works (and is still being updated)

Which doesn't change the fact that it also sucks. I moved my own machine to Chrome a couple months ago. Chrome with NotScript is actually fast enough to use.

Wait...I'm confused. I'm fat and old, and the last FF update made me use Safari. Love it. Chrome asks me to install plugins...constantly....

Detinwolf: Because idiots assume that IE "9" is better than Firefox "3" because of the higher number.

I would suggest that the Mozilla Foundation might be better off ignoring the idiot market segment (large as it may be) and concentrating on those users and potential users who have at least half a clue and won't clog the support channels with inane garbage.

dittybopper: Do I have to think in Russian to use it?

That was the first thing I thought of. I was thinking that nobody would remember a movie from that far back. I should have known, "this is Fark".

/Anyone else remember the Firefox video game?

The universe is laughing behind your back: Chrome with NotScript is actually fast enough to use.

Except when you have more than one tab open, and it for some reason it doesn't spawn a separate process for each tab even though it's configured to do so, and so UI updates on all tabs are blocked until every tab has finished loading.

farbles: Everyone knows only fat old people use Firefox and all the net elite use Chrome. I wonder why Firefox hasn't just given up and gone out of business from the shame of it alone. I mean eww, fat old people.

Ahhh, but all the really cool people use Opera because it's more obscure...

GameSprocket: /Anyone else remember the Firefox video game?

ROLL ROLL ROLL!

/or was that f14?

Get Lost: just leaving this here.............

Google Chrome version 16.0.912.66

/Not using it, but google told me this....

Nobody using Chrome knows what version they have. They just have Chrome. It's all integrated and seamless.

Isn't Chrome at v16.xxxxxx

Fark_Guy_Rob: Nobody using Chrome knows what version they have. They just have Chrome. It's all integrated and seamless.

Chrome has VERSIONS?

Next you'll tell me Macs have versions too...

/Firefox is a pig in regards to memory usage CPU time used and response speed.
//Like an abused spouse though, I can't bring myself to leave them for a better browser.