I am seriously THIS close to switching to Opera permanently! Seriously it is not acceptable for a browser to be running at ~50% CPU and up to 300mb of ram after a few hours of light surfing. I don't care if it IS caching pages in ram, that is terrible. Oh and flash is cpu intensive, too bad I didnt have any tabs open with flash...
If this was something that happened once a month okay no big but it happens every day. Thats not even getting me started on the flash freeze ups I experience in linux on a hourly basis.
Bleh here is hoping for some serious optimization efforts in firefox 4. (Ive already tried fx3 builds.. same issues)
Showing posts with label firefox. Show all posts
Showing posts with label firefox. Show all posts
Sunday, October 7, 2007
Wednesday, February 16, 2005
25 million downloads
[25 millions downloads]:http://www.spreadfirefox.com/?q=node/view/11681
[demand isn't there]:http://www.petitiononline.com/mod_perl/signed.cgi?msiepng
[IE7 will ship pre-longhorn]:http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2005/feb05/02-15RSA05KeynotePR.asp
WOW. On febuary 15th Firefox 1.0 hit [25 millions downloads][]. Congratulations to not just the development team, but to every person who has every told a friend or tested a nightly or submited a bug. Its all the little people that make open source software so wonderful. Everyone can help no matter how technically inclined. Gratz all and I can't wait to hit 50 million downloads.
On a related note Microsoft has announced that [IE7 will ship pre-longhorn][]. Gee, thats a suprise. But I will forever cling to other browsers. They can call me a zealot or fan boy all they want, but the fact is there would have to be a giant change in corporate attitude at MS for me to touch IE again and even then I would have to touch it with a 100ft pole first to test for contamination. Their lack of support for proper xhtml mime-types, standards compliant css, and png transparency (or hell even their borked box model) is appauling. Even if microsoft fixes those things in IE7 how long did it take them? How many people had to say something before they *finally* listened to their customers? It's been eight years since the png specification hit 1.0 **eight yeeeaars** and its not like the [demand isn't there][]
[demand isn't there]:http://www.petitiononline.com/mod_perl/signed.cgi?msiepng
[IE7 will ship pre-longhorn]:http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2005/feb05/02-15RSA05KeynotePR.asp
WOW. On febuary 15th Firefox 1.0 hit [25 millions downloads][]. Congratulations to not just the development team, but to every person who has every told a friend or tested a nightly or submited a bug. Its all the little people that make open source software so wonderful. Everyone can help no matter how technically inclined. Gratz all and I can't wait to hit 50 million downloads.
On a related note Microsoft has announced that [IE7 will ship pre-longhorn][]. Gee, thats a suprise. But I will forever cling to other browsers. They can call me a zealot or fan boy all they want, but the fact is there would have to be a giant change in corporate attitude at MS for me to touch IE again and even then I would have to touch it with a 100ft pole first to test for contamination. Their lack of support for proper xhtml mime-types, standards compliant css, and png transparency (or hell even their borked box model) is appauling. Even if microsoft fixes those things in IE7 how long did it take them? How many people had to say something before they *finally* listened to their customers? It's been eight years since the png specification hit 1.0 **eight yeeeaars** and its not like the [demand isn't there][]
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