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lxskllr

lxskllr

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Anubis said:
humm never see Opera thrash my HDD, been using it forever.
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This is on Ubuntu, and I suspect Flash has something to do with it, but I haven't been paying close attention. I don't like browsers caching to the drive on this anyway. It's needless writes that are best not made to a crappy ssd.
 
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hclarkjr

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majorgeeks will do anything to promote itself to get traffic on its site. go the the forums i linked too, they are saying it is not final and are waiting to see if any more bugs appear then will make it final on the 21st
 
bruceb

bruceb

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I hope when Mozilla does the release on the web site for FF5 that some of the bugs in FF4 were worked out. Such as extensive hard drive accessing, FF4 taking forever to shut down or having to do it manually in task manager, tabs disappearing from the area next to the Start button, but still being open and shown in task manager. And I hope all my addons still work with FF5
 
lxskllr

lxskllr

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lxskllr said:
This is on Ubuntu, and I suspect Flash has something to do with it, but I haven't been paying close attention. I don't like browsers caching to the drive on this anyway. It's needless writes that are best not made to a crappy ssd.
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If anyone's interested, this page has instructions for putting the cache on ramdisk for Chrome, Firefox, and Opera on Linux...

http://samuelololol.blogspot.com/2009/12/ramdisk-for-browserschromium-firefox.html

Opera seems peppier so far,but it'll take some time before I see if it fixes the system crippling disk lock. Keep in mind my ssd is like an onboard USB drive(read painfully slow), so the results on a normal disk won't be as dramatic, but it's worth a try. Obviously you'll lose your cache on system restart, so that may be a concern for some.
 
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sk8erdude

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nice...but it should have been ff 4.3 or something not 5...AND my IDM plugin stopped working...
 
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nemesismk2

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installed firefox 5.0, ran a few benchmarks and noticed speed gains with peacekeeper. the graphics test saw a big speed increase of over 30% over firefox 4.0 and compared to chrome 12 firefox 5.0 is only 8% slower with that test. I am liking firefox 5.0, no crashes and a good speed increase :)
 
bruceb

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Did the update and the only issue is it thinks Google Toolbar Version 7.1.20110512W is not compatible, but it seems to work ok. Only issue was some of my custom buttons for Google Toolbar went away. Anyone know where they are stored for the toolbar in Firefox ? ? I have the buttons from the IE Browser Firefox toolbar saved. It would be nice to save the ones created while in firefox as well.
 
MBrown

MBrown

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I wasn't a fan of ff4 but for some reason I really like ff5. I'm not sure what it is. It just seems more...smoother?
 
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Microsoft could re brand windows 7 to windows 8 after any one of patch Tuesdays if they follow Mozilla's logic..
 
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iCyborg

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woot, I checked out of boredom for updates thinking it would be something like 4.0.2 and it updated to 5.0. I put 4.0 a couple months ago. Mozilla is kinda joining the ranks of Intel/nVidia/AMD in stupid naming/versioning. this should have been 4.1 or something, 5 should be a lot bigger change than this...
 
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lowrider69

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I installed it and noticed no difference from v4.0.1. I agree with the other people who think this accelerated version numbering system is hokey. I guess they're caught up with what Chrome is doing which is a shame because I think Firefox is still hands down the best browser out there. They should do what they do best and go back to doing they're own thing.
 
pyonir

pyonir

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I really don't see much of a difference, other than closing and opening are faster. Tineye wasn't 5 compatible until today, and when I updated it and clicked to restart the browser it was noticeably much, much faster at closing and reopening than it was pre-5.
 
pyonir

pyonir

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I think it's more like there is no reason not to upgrade. If nothing really changes that is noticeable, why not just upgrade?

Release notes are here: http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/5.0/releasenotes/

Note that it states there were security and stability fixes. Stuff most people wouldn't notice but if nothing is noticeable, then might as well upgrade anyway.
 
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I don't see any reason not to upgrade, heh, run the latest at least to ensure you have the latest security fixes. And the addons will soon be updated to support FF 5 anyway.

All my addons are working fine including XMARKS and IETAB2 :)

I love this FF 5. it is so smooth!

FF FTW :D
 
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