On Sun, Sep 19, 2010 at 1:18 PM, Mick <michaelkintz...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sunday 19 September 2010 18:07:11 me wrote: >> On Sun, Sep 19, 2010 at 2:42 AM, Daniel da Veiga >> >> <danieldave...@gmail.com> wrote: >> > On Sun, Sep 19, 2010 at 03:21, Francesco Talamona >> > >> > <francesco.talam...@know.eu> wrote: >> >> On Sunday 19 September 2010, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: >> >>> Is it just me? Or does Firefox get slower every release? And less >> >>> stable. >> >>> >> >>> I got myself up to the latest, and I cannot install my 4 add-ons >> >>> (xmarks, AdBlockPlus, Noscript, Stumble-upon) without it crashing. >> >>> Seg fault sometimes. I've got ECC memory, and no reported problems, >> >>> and it does not help to clear the profiles (rename ~/.mozilla) and >> >>> re-emerge. >> >>> >> >>> Grrrrrr. >> >> >> >> Ditto. Every time slower and less stable. And when it crashes makes the >> >> X destop crash too, I use it with firebug and it's slow as molasses. >> >> >> >> Looking forward to FF4, still not tried on Linux. >> >> >> >> greets >> >> FT >> >> >> >> -- >> >> Linux Version 2.6.35-gentoo-r7, Compiled #1 SMP PREEMPT Fri Sep 17 >> >> 21:01:33 CEST 2010 >> >> Two 2.4GHz AMD Athlon 64 Processors, 4GB RAM, 9648.04 Bogomips Total >> >> aemaeth >> > >> > Well, guess I'm lucky then. >> > I used it since 2.x and never had any problems. Never needed other >> > browser in Linux. Looking forward for 4.x, but still, 3.6.x is my >> > personal choice. Don't like chromium, not enough extensions, can't >> > stand Opera, Safari or Konqueror for the same reason. If flashblock, >> > noscript and adblock were available at any browser I could try it, but >> > still, I don't see it in a near future. >> > >> > -- >> > Daniel da Veiga >> >> Chrome's set of extensions is growing rather large, and at least >> contains most of what anyone would need, a bit short of 'want', but >> covers needs fairly well. If you don't like chrome's interface I'll >> not argue, but if the extensions are the one thing stopping you from >> giving it a real try... >> >> Not quite NoScript, but aims to do the job: >> https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/odjhifogjcknibkahlpidmdajjpkkcf >> n?hl=en >> >> Flashblock: >> https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/gofhjkjmkpinhpoiabjplobcaignabn >> l?hl=en >> >> Adblock: >> https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/gighmmpiobklfepjocnamgkkbiglido >> m?hl=en >> >> The biggest reason I've taken to using chrome, though, is that it >> seems (purely subjective) to render pages far faster than anything >> else I've used, though I've not run opera or safari in a very long >> time. > > Opera is faster than FF for sure both on my amd64 and my x86. I tried Chrome > once (early days then) and I couldn't tell if it was faster. I gave up on it > because I was not sure if the browser was calling home with my browsing habits > and if these were identifiable as coming from my machine/IP address. In other > words I wasn't sure to what extent Google was recording my Internet journeys. > -- > Regards, > Mick >
I decided to forgo letting myself worry over what google is/isn't getting regarding my internet usage around the time I started using gmail, since I'm practically handing them more through that than any access to my browser history or the like gives. -- Poison [BLX] Joshua M. Murphy
