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I remember when I used to get excited when a new version of firefox came out, but now I just don't care. The performance is abysmal and frustrating. I am on m

I remember when I used to get excited when a new version of firefox came out, but now I just don't care. The performance is abysmal and frustrating. I am on mac and even though chrome doesn't have an official release yet and no plugins, I have already switched 100% to it. I do hope that we will eventually see competition between the browsers again, but at this state, I don't see that much coming out from mozilla.

wvenable 17y ago
So far, I'm impressed with the performance of 3.6 -- it's noticeably faster.
bhousel 17y ago
The one thing that has me hooked on Firefox on mac is their multitouch gesture support. 3 finger swipe up/down - go to top/bottom of page 3 finger swipe left/right - go forward/back rotate - switch between open tabs Even safari doesn't support all of those..
- freddier 17y ago
  rotate? That doesn't seem to work for me. An special extension?
  - bhousel 17y ago
    hmm, this might be the answer: http://gizmodo.com/5305394/activate-multitouch-gestures-in-firefox-35 http://gizmodo.com/5305394/activate-multitouch-gestures-in-f... Maybe I needed to re-enable it a while ago and forgot.
MikeCapone 17y ago
My main browser on the Mac is now Chromium 35449 (very stable, and extensions work on it). Firefox has become what is was created to fight (at least on the Mac). Sad..
- city41 17y ago
  Oh it's just as bad on Windows too. I use Chrome everywhere now.
- rbanffy 17y ago
  "Firefox has become what is was created to fight" I don't believe Mozilla has become a monopoly abuser ;-)
  - jauco 17y ago
    Ff was created as the lightweight alternative to the mozilla browser (i.e. The thing that was also branded as Netscape)
  - MikeCapone 17y ago
    Thankfully not! But I meant slow and bloated :)
- guelo 17y ago
  You younguns have no idea what the world was like before Firefox and the apreciation that you owe them. Firefox was created to break the stranglehold that Microsoft had on the web. Mozilla saved the web and averted a great human tragedy with Firefox. Before Firefox web developers regularly wrote non-standard HTML that worked only on IE, huge chunks of the web were visible only on IE, and Microsoft was trying to choke off innovation in order to save their desktop platform. Many thought the fight was hopeless and Microsoft had won. No one, including Google and Apple, was willing to take on the fight except for Mozilla, Opera and a few Linux crazies such as KHTML. But it was ultimately Firefox that forced institutions such as banks to write standards compliant pages and saved the world from Microsoft domination. The existence of Firefox is what allows you to use your KHTML browser and bitch about how Firefox is sad.
nzmsv 17y ago
One of the highlights of 3.6 is TraceMonkey, which should result in a performance boost.
n-named 17y ago
Chrome does have plugins on the mac. I'm surprised, Firefox is mostly irrelevant to me now.
- Perceval 17y ago
  It does, but only on the dev channel builds. It hasn't filtered into the beta channel builds afaik.
Raphael_Amiard 17y ago
Perhaps you should try this release before talking, since it's meant to adress the very points you're 'desperate' about..
vegai 17y ago
Perhaps you should give it one more chance; I've been using chromium for months now, and so have gotten used to the better performance, compared to firefox-3.5. With 3.6, I don't see the difference anymore. On Linux.

wvenable 17y ago

So far, I'm impressed with the performance of 3.6 -- it's noticeably faster.

bhousel 17y ago

The one thing that has me hooked on Firefox on mac is their multitouch gesture support. 3 finger swipe up/down - go to top/bottom of page 3 finger swipe left/right - go forward/back rotate - switch between open tabs Even safari doesn't support all of those..

freddier 17y ago
rotate? That doesn't seem to work for me. An special extension?
- bhousel 17y ago
  hmm, this might be the answer: http://gizmodo.com/5305394/activate-multitouch-gestures-in-firefox-35 http://gizmodo.com/5305394/activate-multitouch-gestures-in-f... Maybe I needed to re-enable it a while ago and forgot.

MikeCapone 17y ago

My main browser on the Mac is now Chromium 35449 (very stable, and extensions work on it). Firefox has become what is was created to fight (at least on the Mac). Sad..

city41 17y ago
Oh it's just as bad on Windows too. I use Chrome everywhere now.
rbanffy 17y ago
"Firefox has become what is was created to fight" I don't believe Mozilla has become a monopoly abuser ;-)
- jauco 17y ago
  Ff was created as the lightweight alternative to the mozilla browser (i.e. The thing that was also branded as Netscape)
- MikeCapone 17y ago
  Thankfully not! But I meant slow and bloated :)
guelo 17y ago
You younguns have no idea what the world was like before Firefox and the apreciation that you owe them. Firefox was created to break the stranglehold that Microsoft had on the web. Mozilla saved the web and averted a great human tragedy with Firefox. Before Firefox web developers regularly wrote non-standard HTML that worked only on IE, huge chunks of the web were visible only on IE, and Microsoft was trying to choke off innovation in order to save their desktop platform. Many thought the fight was hopeless and Microsoft had won. No one, including Google and Apple, was willing to take on the fight except for Mozilla, Opera and a few Linux crazies such as KHTML. But it was ultimately Firefox that forced institutions such as banks to write standards compliant pages and saved the world from Microsoft domination. The existence of Firefox is what allows you to use your KHTML browser and bitch about how Firefox is sad.

nzmsv 17y ago

One of the highlights of 3.6 is TraceMonkey, which should result in a performance boost.

n-named 17y ago

Chrome does have plugins on the mac. I'm surprised, Firefox is mostly irrelevant to me now.

Perceval 17y ago
It does, but only on the dev channel builds. It hasn't filtered into the beta channel builds afaik.

Raphael_Amiard 17y ago

Perhaps you should try this release before talking, since it's meant to adress the very points you're 'desperate' about..

vegai 17y ago

Perhaps you should give it one more chance; I've been using chromium for months now, and so have gotten used to the better performance, compared to firefox-3.5. With 3.6, I don't see the difference anymore. On Linux.