Mozilla Firebird is now Firefox
- Thread starter SteveC
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CougTek
Hairy Aussie
I was about to post a news entry on the front page about this...
Oh well.
Oh well.
Mercutio
Fatwah on Western Digital
Since "Firefox" is a series of fantasy novels and a really bad Clint Eastwood movie, you can bet it's coming.
sechs
Storage? I am Storage!
I think that they should call it "Mozilla Browser"
It's simple and hard to confuse with something else.
It's simple and hard to confuse with something else.
Tea
Storage? I am Storage!
Birds are nicer than foxes. They should change it back.
Although I'm not too smitten with the Firefox name either, Ben's Feb 8th blog certainly sheds light on the situation/predicament they faced
CityK said:
Well Mozillazine's front page is certainly working again. And with a nice new design now too! I also see that my earlier comment about their servers isn't lost on them either.
Platform
Learning Storage Performance
SteveC said:
Yes, I have two guesses:
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1.) For the next version, they'll once again confuse / annoy the hell out of everyone by bringing back -- yet again -- the name Firebird.
2.) It'll stay the same for a while, until an eventual full merger with Netscrape. Then, it'll get renamed to Moby Dick.
blakerwry
Storage? I am Storage!
is it just me or is it faster?
ddrueding
Fixture
Yes, this new firefox is ridiculously fast. Daddy like 
I wish it hadn't taken over all those file associations, though
I wish it hadn't taken over all those file associations, though
ddrueding
Fixture
The only one that jumped out at me was png, it might have gotten jpg and gif as well. No big deal, really.
Mercutio
Fatwah on Western Digital
Some programs guard those file associations, like ACDSee. And on XP, it doesn't matter much anyway, since the default action is to preview with the fax viewer (just another reason to hate XP, IMO).
EdwardK
Learning Storage Performance
I downloaded and installed FireFox last night and it is very fast indeed. Very fast loading times.
Have now trashed Firebird and using FireFox from now on :mrgrn:
Cheers,
Edward
P.S I hope it will not merge with Netscape and beomes bloatware!
Have now trashed Firebird and using FireFox from now on :mrgrn:
Cheers,
Edward
P.S I hope it will not merge with Netscape and beomes bloatware!
GIANT
Learning Storage Performance
EdwardK said:
There seems to be a coder that came over a while back from the older Mozilla project that has a talent for writing buggy code.
Before that merger, the old Phoenix browser was actually quite stable. Then, this "merger of talent" took place, some updates were performed, the new Firebird browser released, and wah! lah!, some of the SAME type of crappy little bugs show up that I recall running into with Mozilla! I believe that Phoenix was done primarily by one person for a while, then handed over to mostly-Mozilla personnel.
Once FireFox looks like a V1.0 product, it seems that sooner or later a AOL/Netscrape/Time/Warner/CNN/Playtex/Frito-Lays/Citibank official will force 'em into grafting on half the world + kitchen sink to compete with MS. If that ever happens, I would hope that a "lite" version would also be available.
Mercutio
Fatwah on Western Digital
One thing that I notice is that FireFox is much better about cleaning up after itself. A week ago I said I had a Firebird process using 1.2GB of RAM+swap, with lots of open tabs.
Opening a similarly large group of tabs with FireFox and RAM usage is stable at around 550MB. Comparing between them it seems FB was holding a lot more data from tabs I closed in virtual memory. I'd ramp up to several hundred open tabs, then close all but one, and its memory utilization would remain outrageous until I closed the last tab.
If I do the same thing with 'fox, RAM usage does drop in line with closed tabs. MUCH better.
Opening a similarly large group of tabs with FireFox and RAM usage is stable at around 550MB. Comparing between them it seems FB was holding a lot more data from tabs I closed in virtual memory. I'd ramp up to several hundred open tabs, then close all but one, and its memory utilization would remain outrageous until I closed the last tab.
If I do the same thing with 'fox, RAM usage does drop in line with closed tabs. MUCH better.
fool
Learning Storage Performance
Buck
Storage? I am Storage!
I installed Firefox today, nice little program, and relatively zippy as others have mentioned. Although I did make it crash.
The JoJo
Wannabe Storage Freak
OK, this is my first post with firefox.
This really rocks, I like the speed!
This really rocks, I like the speed!
I've been using FF 0.8 and if I go to Ace's Hardware forum (and a couple of others) I cannot refresh the page - it just hangs. Next day, a new listing will show, and then it will refuse to update. Clearing the cache doesn't seem to work. We are behind a firewall/proxy, but IE and Moz 1.5 don't have this problem
The JoJo
Wannabe Storage Freak
LiamC said:
Works for me.
blakerwry
Storage? I am Storage!
yeah, no problems here. I'm behind a firewall, but I dont use a proxy.
Another little thing that pisses me off with TB/FF: say you have a couple of tabs open already. Then say you wanted to also open all the links from one of your bookmark folders. Problem is selecting "open in tabs" causes all of your existing tabs to be used when opening the links from the bookmark folder! Why? Why not just open them in new tabs?