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another new version firefox released, 3.6.8

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bruceb

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They just did 3.6.7 about 2 days ago. Mine is self updating as we speak.
 
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BladeVenom

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They added some plugin container to make sure that if a plugin crashes it doesn't crash firefox, but it seems to cause lag and makes things glitchy.
 
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BladeVenom

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hclarkjr said:
mine runs fine. what are some examples of glitches for you?
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Youtube for one, or any online video will occasionally lag or have glitches. Didn't start happening till recently, just a few days ago. Chrome is working just fine.
 
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Dulanic

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I will try it, but I have stopped using Firefox ever since it has become slow as shit for me and my wife. It takes 3x as long to load as Chrome for me now. This started some point slightly after 3.0.
 
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Dulanic said:
I will try it, but I have stopped using Firefox ever since it has become slow as shit for me and my wife. It takes 3x as long to load as Chrome for me now. This started some point slightly after 3.0.
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A clean install may help. I agree though - Chrome is my main browser and will remain that way until someone can come up with something as lightweight, fast, and compact as Chrome. Whoever thought to put the tabs on the title bar (thus eliminating the need for a third menu bar) is a genius.

Edit: Oh, and bookmark sync. I don't think I could give that up.
 
Dulanic

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CurseTheSky said:
A clean install may help. I agree though - Chrome is my main browser and will remain that way until someone can come up with something as lightweight, fast, and compact as Chrome. Whoever thought to put the tabs on the title bar (thus eliminating the need for a third menu bar) is a genius.

Edit: Oh, and bookmark sync. I don't think I could give that up.
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I've tried clean installs. It even acts like a smoldering pile of shit after I had a fresh windows install too. I used to love firefox, now I would rather use IE.
 
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CurseTheSky said:
A clean install may help. I agree though - Chrome is my main browser and will remain that way until someone can come up with something as lightweight, fast, and compact as Chrome. Whoever thought to put the tabs on the title bar (thus eliminating the need for a third menu bar) is a genius.

Edit: Oh, and bookmark sync. I don't think I could give that up.
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Have you tried Opera recently? It trades blow with Chrome on rendering speed and startup times and includes NoScript, Adblock and WoT style notifications. Also Opera was the first to release the tabs in the title bar.

I also feel it has a much more sophisticated look to chromes Babys First Browser interface but thats my opinion.
 
Muse

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BladeVenom said:
They added some plugin container to make sure that if a plugin crashes it doesn't crash firefox, but it seems to cause lag and makes things glitchy.
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I'm sick to death of the lag in my Firefox. I am also very sick up updating to the latest version and having Firefox crash because some add-on isn't compatible. Also, usually some add-on doesn't have a compatible version out yet, so I have to do without that add-on until such time as they put out a compatible version. Meantime I get inundated with messages concerning add-ons I have that need updating. I think in the future I'm going to disable automatic checking for new versions. Lately I've been getting those messages saying that version 3.6.8 is available and I keep clicking [Remind me later] because I don't want to suffer all those hassles. I want to let the software mature to where I can install it without all these problems (i.e. add-ons are available). I suppose the only way I'll be left alone to do my browsing in peace is to turn off checking for a new version. Once in a while (if I remember) I can check out what's the latest version and download and install one or two versions previous! :twisted:
 
Chiefcrowe

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Personally, i've only observed add-on incompatibilities between major versions such as 3.0 > 3.5. For minor ones the updates don't really do much for add-ons.

Not sure what the lag you notice is, i've never seen that myself on any machine i've worked on.
 
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Do you guys still see lag if you remove all extensions/addons and disable unnecessary plugins:
Yahoo Application State
Google's:
picasa, earth, pack,.......etc
windows presentation,
etc.

Before I used to uninstall them but now I found that its much better to 'disable' them. This way even if some program try's to install plugin it sees that the plugin is already installed so doesn't bother with silently showing up again in plugins list.
 
lxskllr

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Muse said:
Also, usually some add-on doesn't have a compatible version out yet, so I have to do without that add-on until such time as they put out a compatible version.
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You can disable addon compatibility checking. Most of them will work, even if they aren't officially compatible.
 
bruceb

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Generally speaking, app addons with in the same major version of Firefox will continue to work fine. You get issues going from say V2 to V3 or V3 to V4
 
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