So, I've installed 3.5 now and, yes, it is noticably faster when browsing. However, this seems to be made up for in that Firefox now takes forgoddamnever to load to begin with. I swear that it's slower than the olden days when trying to load Netscape 4. It's really annoying. None of the previous versions took this long to load for me.
It's much faster, but its memory appetite isn't any better. I still can't have it and SharpDevelop open without windows taking at least a minute to switch between them after I've had FF open for a while.
Wow, the potential for abuse of this feature is frightening.
"When you visit a page that requests your information, you’ll be asked before any information is shared with the requesting website and our third-party service provider."
I'm going to try this out. Just have to find some sites that use it first.
Wow, the potential for abuse of this feature is frightening.
"When you visit a page that requests your information, you’ll be asked before any information is shared with the requesting website and our third-party service provider."
I read that. Using that feature even once would seem to put you at risk.
Fair enough. You'd have to be sure about whether or not you trust a site. I currently don't mind it too much because it seems to have me down as being in the centre of the city (I'm in the suburbs).
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All it does is use your IP address and information regarding local wireless access points to estimate your location. If you don't even have a wireless card all it's going off of is your IP address. Estimating someone's location via their IP address has been used for a very long time already.
We trust websites with information far more sensitive than our general locations already.
Edit: I downloaded 3.5 to check it out. I haven't used Firefox since Chrome came out but I always try the newest browser releases for Firefox, Chrome and Opera. So far it's good but every browser is good when you first open it, so we'll see.
Yeah, sites have been able to geolocate you for years now. This is just a new API to make it simpler for developers to use.
The backend is pluggable though. It could feasibly be used on mobile browsers and hook into your machine's GPS. Fennec isn't going to be out for awhile though, and even once it is I doubt it will be installed on much. But at least there's one standard API that will work with whatever your browser supports.
You can clear the permissions for a site through the Page Info window.
Geolocation isn't working for me, but I'm at work and I have no idea what they do with our network.
I've been using Prism just for grins as a way of launching Gmail. It starts a separate instance of Firefox that never gets above 35 MB of memory or so, regardless of how long it runs. (Which makes sense as it doesn't really go anywhere.) I usually leave it on all day, as I would with a "normal" instance of FF, but it ends up taking less memory in the long haul. Memory isn't too much of a concern, but it's just something I've noticed. Since 3.5 launches so fast I don't mind closing it and opening it throughout the day as I need it for other net usage. Having Gmail open in Prism is like having a separate email client. Kind of nice.
I somehow missed the release of 3.5. Just installed it a few minutes ago. Seems really fast!
I don't understand how some of you guys get some tabs and windows going on. Maybe if you are some kind of web developer or something I guess. I usually have 2-5 tabs open and leave it running for two or three hours and never have any kind of memory problems. That was before updating. I guess we will have to see.
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I somehow missed the release of 3.5. Just installed it a few minutes ago. Seems really fast!
I don't understand how some of you guys get some tabs and windows going on. Maybe if you are some kind of web developer or something I guess. I usually have 2-5 tabs open and leave it running for two or three hours and never have any kind of memory problems. That was before updating. I guess we will have to see.
Some people, myself included, will at times have 10-15 tabs open at once for several days because we think we might come back to the site later or we've stopped using bookmarks.
Sometimes, if I'm doing research, I will have 40 tabs open for days.
Hah! Small world, I got these from reddit. Did you post them on there?
As a sidenote, I was just talking to someone yesterday about your website, which we both thought was a little fun/clever. I particularly like the touch of what happens when you scroll all the way to the moon.
I somehow missed the release of 3.5. Just installed it a few minutes ago. Seems really fast!
I don't understand how some of you guys get some tabs and windows going on. Maybe if you are some kind of web developer or something I guess. I usually have 2-5 tabs open and leave it running for two or three hours and never have any kind of memory problems. That was before updating. I guess we will have to see.
Some people, myself included, will at times have 10-15 tabs open at once for several days because we think we might come back to the site later or we've stopped using bookmarks.
Sometimes, if I'm doing research, I will have 40 tabs open for days.
I somehow missed the release of 3.5. Just installed it a few minutes ago. Seems really fast!
I don't understand how some of you guys get some tabs and windows going on. Maybe if you are some kind of web developer or something I guess. I usually have 2-5 tabs open and leave it running for two or three hours and never have any kind of memory problems. That was before updating. I guess we will have to see.
Some people, myself included, will at times have 10-15 tabs open at once for several days because we think we might come back to the site later or we've stopped using bookmarks.
Sometimes, if I'm doing research, I will have 40 tabs open for days.
Is that what you kids call it these days? It doesn't take days to find out whether the screenshots warrant torrenting that new porn release. But yeah, if I'm searching for something that's not likely to be in the first five links on a goo that can basically get to around 10-15 tabs from the first few pages that I open, then quickly skim through them to filter out the crap.
And I could easily keep more than five tabs open on the forums (these and others) for fast moving threads. And then you have things like the first couple of weeks after Iran's election where you also have various news sites where they're effectively live-blogging events, plus certain Iranian twitter users who were reporting on the protests, etc.
My PC runs 24/7. The only time it shuts down is because of extended power outages. Everything that I didn't read through in my last browsing "session" is left open to read when I'm back at the PC.
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I somehow missed the release of 3.5. Just installed it a few minutes ago. Seems really fast!
I don't understand how some of you guys get some tabs and windows going on. Maybe if you are some kind of web developer or something I guess. I usually have 2-5 tabs open and leave it running for two or three hours and never have any kind of memory problems. That was before updating. I guess we will have to see.
Some people, myself included, will at times have 10-15 tabs open at once for several days because we think we might come back to the site later or we've stopped using bookmarks.
Sometimes, if I'm doing research, I will have 40 tabs open for days.
I don't understand this way of browsing.
I've never been fond of favorites, so I keep my regular visited sites open in tabs. Between Firefox itself and TMP, the browser remembers my tabs across sessions. The address bar features added in 3.0 were very welcome, as I can simply type a portion of the title or address of a site I visited and have it come up.
Memory is not a concern to me. I will fluctuate between 8-40 tabs at a time. My machine runs 24/7, but that's irrelevant when Firefox remembers tabs across sessions.
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Holy fuck that's accurate.
I'M A TWITTER SHITTER
Wow, the potential for abuse of this feature is frightening.
I'm going to try this out. Just have to find some sites that use it first.
I read that. Using that feature even once would seem to put you at risk.
We trust websites with information far more sensitive than our general locations already.
Edit: I downloaded 3.5 to check it out. I haven't used Firefox since Chrome came out but I always try the newest browser releases for Firefox, Chrome and Opera. So far it's good but every browser is good when you first open it, so we'll see.
You can clear the permissions for a site through the Page Info window.
Firefox 3.5 and Safari users might have fun with this one too:
http://www.zachstronaut.com/blackhole
I've been using Prism just for grins as a way of launching Gmail. It starts a separate instance of Firefox that never gets above 35 MB of memory or so, regardless of how long it runs. (Which makes sense as it doesn't really go anywhere.) I usually leave it on all day, as I would with a "normal" instance of FF, but it ends up taking less memory in the long haul. Memory isn't too much of a concern, but it's just something I've noticed. Since 3.5 launches so fast I don't mind closing it and opening it throughout the day as I need it for other net usage. Having Gmail open in Prism is like having a separate email client. Kind of nice.
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I don't understand how some of you guys get some tabs and windows going on. Maybe if you are some kind of web developer or something I guess. I usually have 2-5 tabs open and leave it running for two or three hours and never have any kind of memory problems. That was before updating. I guess we will have to see.
Some people, myself included, will at times have 10-15 tabs open at once for several days because we think we might come back to the site later or we've stopped using bookmarks.
Sometimes, if I'm doing research, I will have 40 tabs open for days.
That is really, really cool. :^: Looking at your javascript makes me wish I knew my maths better.
Hah! Small world, I got these from reddit. Did you post them on there?
As a sidenote, I was just talking to someone yesterday about your website, which we both thought was a little fun/clever. I particularly like the touch of what happens when you scroll all the way to the moon.
I'M A TWITTER SHITTER
I don't understand this way of browsing.
Can't say I get the 40 tabs for days thing either. Probably because I turn my machine off every day.
Is that what you kids call it these days? It doesn't take days to find out whether the screenshots warrant torrenting that new porn release. But yeah, if I'm searching for something that's not likely to be in the first five links on a goo that can basically get to around 10-15 tabs from the first few pages that I open, then quickly skim through them to filter out the crap.
And I could easily keep more than five tabs open on the forums (these and others) for fast moving threads. And then you have things like the first couple of weeks after Iran's election where you also have various news sites where they're effectively live-blogging events, plus certain Iranian twitter users who were reporting on the protests, etc.
My PC runs 24/7. The only time it shuts down is because of extended power outages. Everything that I didn't read through in my last browsing "session" is left open to read when I'm back at the PC.
I've never been fond of favorites, so I keep my regular visited sites open in tabs. Between Firefox itself and TMP, the browser remembers my tabs across sessions. The address bar features added in 3.0 were very welcome, as I can simply type a portion of the title or address of a site I visited and have it come up.
Memory is not a concern to me. I will fluctuate between 8-40 tabs at a time. My machine runs 24/7, but that's irrelevant when Firefox remembers tabs across sessions.
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