Replying to [beta] Firefox 2.0 Beta 1

I like firefox alot but it really eats at my ram. Any hints or tips?

Yes. There are a few settings that you can try to change using the about:config and/or the about:cache commands.

More details here and here.

Some of what is suggested will definitely help, but ultimately the last bit of tweaking is left up to the end-user. What works for one may not work as well for another.

I like firefox alot but it really eats at my ram. Any hints or tips?

Well, I am no Anti Firefox, but I don't see anything special yet in the FF2 Beta 1 and that is why I don't see the point to change to Firefox from Opera9 as it has most of those features and is much faster.. But they are doing a great job updating Firefox engine though, I like Firefox just for several reasons: it has a lot of fun/useful/powerful extensions (add-ons) and people browse with firefox - it is much better than using IE

Here is a really good site about browser speeds and conclusions: http://www.howtocrea...owserSpeed.html The best one I found on the Net

I was using version 1.5.4 of Firefox, and it upgraded a couple of days ago to version 1.5.6. I also have BonEcho installed on the same machine, since it installs into a different folder I don't have problems with the profiles getting mixed up. However, the version of Bon Echo I have (an early beta) doesn't work properly -- bookmarks don't work and it frequently crashed and refused to accept 1.5.x plugins that I found very annoying. There was absolutely nothing in BonEcho that SeaMonley couldn't do, and that is why SeaMonkey is my preferred browser.

I completely missed that one, a built in spell checker? Wow isn't that going a little far heh heh. I suppose if having spell checkers in browser software became a standard thing to do it might save forum administrators some bandwidth on having them built into the forums

Hmm... I just love the built-in spell checker!! So many features!! It seems pretty cool, except two of my extensions don't work, but that's OK... I'm sure they'll be updated soon. But it looks great!!

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I'm using Mozilla Firefox 2.0 Beta 1. The engine and everything is faster than version 1.5 without the FasterFox extension. However, none my extensions and skins work. Plus, too bad there's no QT version only GTK2+ for Linux.

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Does this come highly recommended? I'm still using the latest version that is on the main website but Iv'e been hearing about this BETA version of 2.0.

I don't really see anything in that list that really affects me all that much but maybe there is some other small changes not listed?

UPDATE: After playing around with the BETA1, I'm saddened to say that Single Window Mode is still not part of the built-in tab features. Also TabMix Plus isn't working as it used to just by changing the maxver param in the JAR file. So a new version is eagerly awaited.

Yeah, it's true that TabMixPlus isn't working. Neither is FasterFox, which kind of annoys me. But on the point of TabMixPlus, most of the features that were originally offered by it are now integrated into Firefox 2.0 Beta 1, so there's no real point in updating it. And for single window mode, couldn't you just edit the settings so that all new window open up in tabs? Unless you're talking about pop ups as well?

EDIT: I've noticed something else quirky. Everytime I load a page, Firefox 2.0 Beta takes up 100% of my CPU. I don't get why. I tried restarting Firefox a couple of times, but I ended up with the same problems. It definitely isn't about the sites I go to, because without the new beta, I had no problems with those sites...yet with it, my computer's dying. ><

UPDATE: After playing around with the BETA1, I'm saddened to say that Single Window Mode is still not part of the built-in tab features. Also TabMix Plus isn't working as it used to just by changing the maxver param in the JAR file. So a new version is eagerly awaited.