i'm diggin the new Firefox 4.0.1 browser.. much faster.. lovin' it!

danger boy
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edited May 2011 in The Clubhouse
that's all.. just had to share that..

:tongue:
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  • TouchOfEvil
    TouchOfEvil Posts: 967
    edited May 2011
    I was gonna upgrade to it but when i went to do so it gave me a list of things i run not compatible with it. So i choose to keep my current version for now.
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  • danger boy
    danger boy Posts: 15,722
    edited May 2011
    upgrade mr Evil.. it's worth it.. much faster.. screw the other programs you run.. LOL
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  • cokewithvanilla
    cokewithvanilla Posts: 1,777
    edited May 2011
    4.0 to 4.01 much faster??? really? in what cases? i cant imagine how old a computer must be to notice differences in rendering pages on firefox.

    Anytime people say their browser is faster, I am skeptical. Sure, when the browser benchmarks came out, we saw differences in the numbers (as in, this one was 10ms faster here or there)... but noticeable differences in speed during normal usage? That is much more likely to be caused by other factors including your connection speed, and all other connections leading up to your chosen website.

    But who knows, I could be entirely wrong.
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  • danger boy
    danger boy Posts: 15,722
    edited May 2011
    cokewithvanilla wrote: »
    4.0 to 4.01 much faster??? really? in what cases? i cant imagine how old a computer must be to notice differences in rendering pages on firefox.

    Anytime people say their browser is faster, I am skeptical. Sure, when the browser benchmarks came out, we saw differences in the numbers (as in, this one was 10ms faster here or there)... but noticeable differences in speed during normal usage? That is much more likely to be caused by other factors including your connection speed, and all other connections leading up to your chosen website.

    But who knows, I could be entirely wrong.

    you're right man... so the 4.0.1 FF browser prob isn't that much faster.. but my laptop liked it.. and I did clean up the registry.. so the reg cleaner prob made it seem like a faster browser. :tongue:
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  • inspiredsports
    inspiredsports Posts: 5,501
    edited May 2011
    danger boy wrote: »
    that's all.. just had to share that..

    :tongue:

    Yep, it installed seamlessly on all 8 of my computers and is stable (as all prior versions have been), and noticeably faster.
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  • inspiredsports
    inspiredsports Posts: 5,501
    edited May 2011
    cokewithvanilla wrote: »
    4.0 to 4.01 much faster??? really? in what cases? i cant imagine how old a computer must be to notice differences in rendering pages on firefox.

    Anytime people say their browser is faster, I am skeptical. Sure, when the browser benchmarks came out, we saw differences in the numbers (as in, this one was 10ms faster here or there)... but noticeable differences in speed during normal usage? That is much more likely to be caused by other factors including your connection speed, and all other connections leading up to your chosen website.

    But who knows, I could be entirely wrong.

    The 3 laptops I purchased from you last year, for instance.

    Although 1 is developing a video card problem as it overheats and the screen goes vertical rainbow stripes after an hour, but that's not a Firefox issue.
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  • seeclear
    seeclear Posts: 1,242
    edited May 2011
    The one thing I don't like is--up by the Back/Forward buttons, there used to be a little down arrow where you could look forward and back at the pages you had been on and go directly there without having to go through the intervening pages. I don't see that capability on the new browser. And the address bar is below the tabs, I don't care for that at all. OK, that was two things I don't like.
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  • jim 249
    jim 249 Posts: 347
    edited May 2011
    I don't see that capability on the new browser.

    It does not seem any faster to me. If you right click in the tool bar, select customize and follow the directions to ad in button options to the tool bar.
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  • kuntasensei
    kuntasensei Posts: 3,263
    edited May 2011
    seeclear wrote: »
    The one thing I don't like is--up by the Back/Forward buttons, there used to be a little down arrow where you could look forward and back at the pages you had been on and go directly there without having to go through the intervening pages. I don't see that capability on the new browser. And the address bar is below the tabs, I don't care for that at all. OK, that was two things I don't like.

    You can reposition the location of the tabs in options. And if you click and hold on the back/forward buttons, it still brings up the recent history. It just doesn't have that little arrow that drops it down.
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    cokewithvanilla Posts: 1,777
    edited May 2011
    inspiredsports wrote: »
    The 3 laptops I purchased from you last year, for instance.

    Although 1 is developing a video card problem as it overheats and the screen goes vertical rainbow stripes after an hour, but that's not a Firefox issue.

    I assume you've cleaned out the fan and heat sink? I've literally pulled out a handful of dust from one of em. To be honest, that's probably something I should have done to all of them. I will definitely do this if I sell laptops in the future. (if you haven't, you can simply pull the keyboard (3 screws on the back, two tabs on the front) and remove the entire heat sink.)
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  • Sherardp
    Sherardp Posts: 8,038
    edited May 2011
    Get a quad-core rig and everything you throw at it gets faster.

    I'm going to give it a whirl, I haven't use FF since like 05.
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  • seeclear
    seeclear Posts: 1,242
    edited May 2011
    kuntasensei wrote: »
    You can reposition the location of the tabs in options.

    Cool, actually I found that in "view", "toolbars", and unclick the "Tabs on Top".
    kuntasensei wrote: »
    And if you click and hold on the back/forward buttons, it still brings up the recent history. It just doesn't have that little arrow that drops it down.

    Thanks, that's good to know. Seems simpler (on a laptop at least) to just have the arrow.
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  • audiobliss
    audiobliss Posts: 12,518
    edited May 2011
    You can also just right click on the fwd/bck arrows to get that recent history. Quicker than clicking and holding.
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  • jim 249
    jim 249 Posts: 347
    edited May 2011
    You can also just right click on the fwd/bck arrows to get that recent history. Quicker than clicking and holding.

    Cool, great to know!
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  • bsoko2
    bsoko2 Posts: 1,449
    edited May 2011
    The big pain in the A** for me is the alphabetizing of the favorites folder when you import it from your old browser.
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  • Erik Tracy
    Erik Tracy Posts: 4,673
    edited May 2011
    danger boy wrote: »
    you're right man... so the 4.0.1 FF browser prob isn't that much faster.. but my laptop liked it.. and I did clean up the registry.. so the reg cleaner prob made it seem like a faster browser. :tongue:

    What tool/utility did you use to do the registry cleanup?

    I've got an older desktop that is glacially slow and I suspect the registry is holding it back

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