Firefox 3.5b4 review

The final beta release of Firefox 3.5. I've installed it on my Mac and having lived with it for a few days. I have actually noticed a speed improvement. Though, I think it will be short-lived.

Firefox has always been good and fast since it was released, but many people including myself, have defected to the likes of Chrome and Safari for normal web serving as Firefox has somehow become slower than a lot of other solutions out there. The reason I believe is because of add-ons. The new beta, after I tried it, is fast, but I think it's because all my plugins currently does not work with it so they're disabled.

I still use FF as my main browser on the Mac, but I use Chrome as my default on Windows. I'm actually hoping Chrome for the Mac will be released soon. I'll only ever use FF for work due to the community support and add-ons avaliable.

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[ 15:52 ] 08^th May, 2009

Anonymous

You can force firefox to enable all your "incompatible" addons (there's an about:config entry you have to create)...I've got all mine running right now and this version still is using 50% less ram than 3.0.10 and is far faster at rendering pages.

[ 15:56 ] 11^th May, 2009

Siu Lun

Thanks for the tip. A quick search reveals that I needed to insert a new Boolean value: "extensions.checkCompatibility" = false Now I really feel the slow down of my add-ons on load. That is what I dislike.

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