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Re: Firefox 4 RC now available

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Post by digdug » Thu, Mar 10, 2011, 11:34 PM UTC

ootachi wrote: post #22

GHFigs wrote: post #19

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Some other software on your computer put it there. Why does Firefox allow this?

There is work to give the user more control over this that unfortunately didn't make it into Firefox 4 [1], but ultimately it's a battle that can't be won; on the desktop, apps can modify other apps. I suspect that this will happen to Chrome too. [1]: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=596343

Heck, since Chrome has to put itself into the users AppData folder in order to do silent updates, is there anything preventing malware from just screwing with the Chrome libraries themselves?

Re: Firefox 4 RC now available

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Post by Qz » Fri, Mar 11, 2011, 2:32 PM UTC

bzbarsky wrote: post #113

Qz wrote: post #95

Since beta 10 or 11 FF4 has been really sluggish for me when opening new tabs, and at startup (aka opening lots of 'new' tabs). I don't know what changed, but it's enough to make me consider switching to Chrome. I don't want to, but RC1 is still sluggish to the point of being nearly unusable, given my browsing patterns.

Did you file a bug on this? If not, could you do that please? Since people aren't seeing this in general, your help would presumably be needed to narrow this down....

Actually, I've been thinking about it and the problems happened around the time I upgraded to Windows 7, at which point I installed Firefox to my (relatively old) SSD, which was problematic in the past for Firefox. I'm going to reinstall it to my HDD as I had it previously and see if that fixes the problem.

Re: Firefox 4 RC now available

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Post by bzbarsky » Fri, Mar 11, 2011, 3:01 PM UTC

Qz wrote: post #122

bzbarsky wrote: post #113

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Did you file a bug on this? If not, could you do that please? Since people aren't seeing this in general, your help would presumably be needed to narrow this down....

Actually, I've been thinking about it and the problems happened around the time I upgraded to Windows 7, at which point I installed Firefox to my (relatively old) SSD, which was problematic in the past for Firefox. I'm going to reinstall it to my HDD as I had it previously and see if that fixes the problem.

Sounds good. If the problem persists, please do file a bug!

Re: Firefox 4 RC now available

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Post by yesimahuman » Sun, Mar 13, 2011, 9:39 PM UTC

bzbarsky wrote: post #112

yesimahuman wrote: post #29

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> If Mozilla wanted to copy Chrome/Safari's UI, they've succeeded They haven't succeeded because they still see the need for both a search box and an address box and the tabs don't close right under where the last close button was (my biggest gripes).

The need is simple: The search box sends what you type in it to your search provider immediately. So if they're combined, there's no way to type a url without your search provider knowing what URL you typed. Now maybe you're OK with that. But a lot of users are not (including non-technical users who don't even realize this behavior exists; once you explain what the unified bar does to them they become _very_ unhappy)…

That is interesting, but most people I know type "facebook" in google to get a link to facebook, so I don't know if that's the case.