Firefox 2 overrated? Going downhill?

Hi 7 seconds is too much. U need to cut down ur extensions at least by half.

 

I've been running Firefox 2. It loads a LOT faster and does'nt bog down with lots of tabs open (eg more than 10).
That alone makes it a worthy upgrade.

 

Because IE is embeded in windows it starts faster. FF being a stand alone takes 2 seconds longer. Now that we have IE7, we can look at the same skin for another 6 years. What were we saying about FF? I love it.

 

i hate firefox 2. it's the only program i have which crashes. and how could anyone think tabs which disappear is a good idea is that the default behaviour, or is that something to do with my setup?

i just hate it, mine also sends encrypted stuff to google and i also read how it sends other stuff to google too (spyware), but that might have been fixed during beta testing after someone asked what was going on

JUNK

http://www.heise-security.co.uk/news/80310/
https://www.wilderssecurity.com/showthread.php?t=152484

 

It was actually 5, not 6, years between IE6 and IE7. You may hate Microsoft but don't exagerrate. It was 5, period.

I hate the "IE is embedded, and Firefox is not, so Fox starts slow" argument. How come Opera launches much faster then? After all it's standalone.

 

I don,t like the Google relation with FF.
May be it is due to the fact that they need money.
BTW u can never know what ur browsers are sending and where they are sending, in my opinion.

 

For some strange reason FF 2.0 worked slower on my computer than 1.5

But the problem probably isn't with the rendering engine, because the other browsers with FF's rendering engine are just as fast as FF 1.5 was on my computer. I feel something in FF 2.0 is bogging the render engine down. If this is the case, they can fix it pretty good with version 2.5 or 3.0

 

Firecat- It must be a local problem for you. FF2 is at least as fast as 1.5 for me if not faster.

 

FireFox2 opens as fast as I can click onto the icon, thats really fast ! However I dont like the memory leaks and yes it depends on what extensions you currently got installed with it. My memory usage can start from 22,000k and by the time I'm done browsing usually about an hour or so it goes up to 38,000k. They really need to fix that but I'm pretty sure the security of this browser is a bit more secure than the previous as it should be.

 

You are a lucky guy yankingNcranking Not that I care about memory usage anymore but my Firefox 2 is up to 80Mb after I am done with it, but I have never seen over 100Mb of memory usage, well maybe I have but that was many, many version/builds ago.
Do you have some sort of preload? Firefox 2 is the fastest version when talking about load times. But it takes still about 7-8 seconds to load even though I have reduced my extensions from 40 to 13 must haves. 8 seconds is not a big deal really, but if it could get faster would be a bonus

 

Wow 13 must haves hehehe sorry man that maybe the problem there as I dont have any installed at all. I personally dont have the need for those extension as I use my own tools yes I got the landscape for it dual monitor set up !
As for the preload I dont have a preload but I did use Ultimate Defrag and set the firefox.exe and its related files placed to the outer areas of my HD which I have to say speeded up my launch, I also play aalot of Online games and my Warcraft, WOW, SplinterCell, FEAR, etc etc etc all load 3-7 sec faster sorry for going away from the topic a bit.

 

Oh yeah, extensions "is the ****" for me
If speed and security was the only issues I would go for K-meleon or Opera, those are the fastest imo (besides IE of course)

 

I will suggest u to decrease extension to about 5 or 6 and it will load faster.

 

I posted the following problem elsewhere, but never got an answer...

 

Hi, I use default settings here. So can,t help anymore.

 

you can try a CSS stored on your HDD, or changing the value for the fonts on your home page so the font isn't a fixed size. i'm not a web developer, but someone who knows that stuff should know what to do. try a web developer forum

 

BTW, I want to ask one Q as well. I want to add a dictionay search engine in Opera Firefox. Have no idea which one I should use. Any recommendations?
Thanks.

 

I don't know about spying or info leaks, but I really like the built in spell checker and the ability to resume the previous session with all the tabs when it crashes.

 

Sorry, I wanted to say Firefox.
corrected it now!

 

My choice was Dictionary.com. I tried the Merriam-Webster one but found out very quickly it wasn't right for me. If I mis-spelled the word some, M-W would come back with no suggestions. Dictionary.com always gives me choices...

 

Well! before posting the Q, I tried it from the link below but when I click Dictionary.com, it says Page is empty.

http://mycroft.mozdev.org/dlstats.html

 

Make sure you've allowed mozdev.org if your running NoScript