Firefox 4 ~ anyone using it?

[Cute Tink]

I'm using on my W7 laptop and my XP desktop at work. I like the look it has on W7 a lot. On my XP desktop, it looks pretty much the same as 3.6, but that could be because of my Windows settings set to fast rather than pretty since my comp at work is getting pretty geriatric.

 

[James.a]

It took me a few days to get use to the new interface too. Im not a big fan of the interface. I just tried out browser called Chromium. Its googles opensource version of Chome. It got a pretty plain and dull interface but very fast compared to any ive seen to date.

 

[R3D BULL83]

is chrome really that good?

 

[EphesiaNZ]

It took me a few days to get use to the new interface too. Im not a big fan of the interface. I just tried out browser called Chromium. Its googles opensource version of Chome. It got a pretty plain and dull interface but very fast compared to any ive seen to date.

I find Chromium a bit heavy on resources even though I use it as my regular browser alongside Firefox. Firefox 4 is just as fast, on Linux, as Chromium I find.

Also, dont forget to add an ad-blocker extension to either of these browsers as this will give you a must faster browser yet again!

 

[Qyöt27]

...and FlashBlock, and the AdBlock Plus Popup Addon. At least concerning Firefox.

 

[MrJim]

is chrome really that good?

I've grown to like it~~I'd like to have Safari back if apple ever decides to clean it up.

 

[WalksWithChrist]

I've grown to like it~~I'd like to have Safari back if apple ever decides to clean it up.

I never did get a good feel for Safari. Even on a Mac.

 

[NiobiumTragedy]

The only thing I don't like about Firefox 4 is that Mozilla has yet to fix this bloody memory leak! >=[

 

[C-Man]

I had noticed that. No browser should use 250+MB RAM for anything.

 

[EphesiaNZ]

On Linux here, Chromium uses about 200MB with just one tab open. Firefox 4 with 3 tabs open is using 115MB. I'm beginning to dislike Chromium due to its resource hogging qualities, seen it consume over 400MB with several tabs open!

 

[C-Man]

Chromium would seem to have the same problem. It does something similar in Windows for me. I use Firefox exclusively, and the memory leak isn't a huge problem on my desktop, which has 6GB RAM. Either can be a problem on my laptop, though, since it only has 512MB RAM.

 

[EphesiaNZ]

It seems a windows problem then by the looks of it. Have you got the latest versions of both browsers?

 

[C-Man]

It does the same thing in Ubuntu on my desktop and Vector on my laptop as well.
I have the latest version of Firefox, but not Chromium. I never use Chromium anyway.

 

[Cute Tink]

I don't seem to have any problem on my laptop, but I do have 8GB of RAM, so it could burn through a lot before I would notice any problem.

 

[EphesiaNZ]

If you are interested, Firefox 5 beta is just available and from what I hear it's FF4 with quite a few bugs ironed out. Remember, it's beta so it could be better (or worse).

Firefox 5 Beta (US) can be got here,

Index of /pub/mozilla.org/firefox/nightly/5.0b2-candidates/build1/win32/en-US

 

[Qyöt27]

I have Firefox 4.0.1, with 4 tabs open, and I'm only getting ~166MB of memory usage (and 12MB for the plugin-container). Windows XP, 512MB of PC133 SDRAM.

A lot of times I think it has more to do with page content - some sites will slow it to a crawl with few tabs open, others I can have 8 or 9 tabs open and navigate with almost no issue.

 

[C-Man]

Socket 7 system?

 

[Qyöt27]

Socket 7 system?

Socket 370. 1Ghz Celeron Coppermine, 100 MHz FSB. The system will be a decade old in August, or December if figured from the time of purchase. The core components, anyway; it's gone through several upgrades over the years, most recently the extra 256MB stick of RAM and GeForce 6200 graphics card in January 2010, and PSU replacement (currently on PSU #3) in June 2010.

 

[C-Man]

Hey, not bad.
You can get a 1.4GHz Tualatin-core Pentium III for cheap nowadays, along with an adapter to fit the various weird Socket 370 configurations. I've seen guys play Crysis with those.

 

[Qyöt27]

I've considered doing something with the Tualatin PIIIs, as I saw them going for $20 on eBay and the performance boost might be enough to at least watch standard def H.264 without a re-encode. Right now isn't a good time, though - if I brick this system I'm essentially computer-less, with no means to get a new one. So as long as the CPU hasn't failed, I'm not wanting to touch it.

And I just stumbled upon this:
YouTube - Windows 7 on pentium 3 1Ghz

The listed specs for that setup differ from mine in a few ways: they're using a 5400rpm drive and I have a 7200rpm, they've got the GeForce FX 5200 w/128MB, whereas my GeForce 6200 has 256MB, and I have less system RAM and a Celeron. But it still makes me wonder what it would be like to try and run Win7 on this thing.