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Re: Firefox 29

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Post by habosa »

tagawa wrote: post #450
habosa wrote: post #445

I think it's beautiful. I can't explain exactly what I like (I'm not much of a designer) but I can say that I now find it more visually appealing than Chrome. The only reason I'm staying on Chrome is because of a few extensions and because it syncs so well with my Android phone. I think there is a lot of hate here with the tone "I liked it the old way because I was used to it!". New designs change things, that's why…

Interesting to hear that extensions are your reason for sticking with Chrome. What sort of addons do you find lacking in Firefox?

Not too many critical extensions, but a few: Motorola Connect, Google Hangouts, and Hacker News Enhancement Suite.

The real reason I stick with Chrome is because it works so well with my Google accounts and syncs everything I do to my phone.

I could partially move to Firefox if I could find a good way to do bi-directional bookmarks sync between the browsers. I tried XMarks but it would totally fuck up all of my Chrome bookmarks once in a while.

Re: Firefox 29

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Post by habosa »

Not super relevant to the design, but does anyone know which browser (Chrome or Firefox) uses less memory on a Mac these days? Not talking about base footprint, but let's say I have 25 tabs open. Chrome uses ~100MB per tab, more for long-running tabs with a lot going on like GMail. Seems totally insane to me, a website that's not a complicated web app should have a tiny memory footprint. If Firefox could significantly improve this I'd move.

Re: Firefox 29

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Post by rmccue »

habosa wrote: post #452

Not super relevant to the design, but does anyone know which browser (Chrome or Firefox) uses less memory on a Mac these days? Not talking about base footprint, but let's say I have 25 tabs open. Chrome uses ~100MB per tab, more for long-running tabs with a lot going on like GMail. Seems totally insane to me, a website that's not a complicated web app should have a tiny memory footprint. If Firefox could significantl…

I currently have 62 tabs open (in this tab group; more in the background, but they're not loaded), and Firefox is using 1.41 GB, which is ~23 MB/tab. That also includes a bunch of videos, pictures and Flash.

Re: Firefox 29

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Post by tagawa »

habosa wrote: post #451
tagawa wrote: post #450

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Interesting to hear that extensions are your reason for sticking with Chrome. What sort of addons do you find lacking in Firefox?

Not too many critical extensions, but a few: Motorola Connect, Google Hangouts, and Hacker News Enhancement Suite. The real reason I stick with Chrome is because it works so well with my Google accounts and syncs everything I do to my phone. I could partially move to Firefox if I could find a good way to do bi-directional bookmarks sync between the browsers. I tried XMarks but it would totally fuck up all of my Chrom…

Thanks. I'm also looking into bookmark sync. They have Firefox Sync ( https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/sync/ ) but I haven't tried it out yet.

Re: Firefox 29

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Post by talles »

Sorry, I know isn't that interesting or constructive but I have to say: in UX terms, Firefox just NAILED IT.

I have used for just a short term (a whole day) and I probably gonna find this or that to dislike. But so far I'm in love with it.

Re: Firefox 29

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Post by debaserab2 »

jamespo wrote: post #404
dubcanada wrote: post #385

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Unfortunately you are not the average user, if you want Firefox to succeed it needs to do what is common, both IE, and Chrome the two most popular browsers have a single address/search bar. In regards to the whole tinfoil hat comments about Google knowing everything you type, well I hate to burst your bubble but they probably already know everything about you, including but not limited too your inability to spell duc…

I think firefox has already succeeded

Succeeded - but is it still succeeding today?

I can't remember the last time I used Firefox intentionally. Chrome replaced it long ago.

As a web dev, I find myself more annoyed at the anomalies of Gecko everyday. I fix more Gecko related bugs than IE11 bugs, and that just feels wrong.

I don't expect this to be a popular opinion, but I have to say based on recent experience that if it wasn't for Chrome, I'd be using IE11 on a PC and Safari on a Mac. Firefox just feels too kludgy every time I use it.

Re: Firefox 29

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Post by mbrubeck »

tiziano88 wrote: post #348

Woah, the download size is 56MB for the OSX version! I'm curious to what accounts for the big size, is it assets or actual executable code?

It's a fat binary; it includes both 32-bit and 64-bit compiled code. Normally only the 64-bit code is used, but it can restart in 32-bit mode for compatibility with legacy plug-ins.

Re: Firefox 29

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Post by Aldo_MX »

ghshephard wrote: post #422
dermotbrennan wrote: post #176

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If you put '/' at the end of the internal address it will resolve it correctly. Although I switch between both browsers a lot so I don't always remember that trick.

That works - I can't tell you how many hundreds (possibly even thousands) of times I was frustrated by that issue with chrome, before I gave up. I can now come home again.

This is strange, where I typed localhost, Chrome prompted me if I really meant localhost/

Re: Firefox 29

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Post by BuckRogers »

I was very happy with the way Firefox was before, and this is definitely an improvement. Gotta say, bravo to Mozilla on this one. I love the changes and customization.. much better UI.

Re: Firefox 29

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Post by erikpukinskis »

I feel like Mozilla's UIs always look amazing in the high-res vector mockups they post, but at 1x resolution they just look sloppy. Maybe I just need a 2x resolution display!
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