Firefox 3

Late last night, I installed Firefox 3 Beta 2. I’ve been running it all day, opening and closing tabs throughout, with a peak of around 45 tabs open, and an average somewhere around 25-30.

I don’t know what they’ve done to improve the memory handling (it’s currently using 394M virtual, 161M resident, 19M shared), but the responsiveness has been awesome. In Firefox 2, my machine would have been thrashing like a dying wildebeest, slogging down the performance of every other app on the machine. But with version 3, Firefox itself has remained snappy, and switching between Firefox and other apps (Thunderbird, Pidgin, Skype, and a handful of terminal windows) has been just fine.

Of course, it could just be the fact that only 6 of my 43 installed add-ons is working right now… I’ll be keeping an eye on that. Maybe I should try running Firefox 2 tomorrow with a fresh profile, and see if the lack of add-ons makes a big difference after an extended session.

There’s also a few changes in the UI, that I mostly like. Such as the ability to bookmark a page by clicking a little star icon on the right side of the location bar. And scrolling through a long list of tabs is much smoother now. Plus, the active tab stands out from the others much better. That’s all I can think of for now.

Anybody else out there giving the new beta a test drive? What do you think?

Twitter Updates for 2008-01-03

  • Just ordered some expansion packs for my DS, so I’ll be able to run homebrew games and DSLinux on it. Why? Because I can! #
  • Drinking coffee from my Crowd Favorite mug. Gotta finish up a couple of project estimates, then dive into some server optimization… #
  • Calling it a day. Got lots of work to dive into tomorrow. Now: time for family and food. #

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Twitter Updates for 2008-01-01

  • Longhorn had a long line. Went to Tuscany Italian Grill, instead. Excellent decision. Yum. Tweet y’all next year! #
  • Getting ready to head to Ikea to shop for a recliner. #
  • @rslux Yes, working at home requires mucho discipline. I’m fighting that battle, too 🙂 #
  • Ikea has a recliner that we want (matches our red leather Ikea couches), but they were out of stock. 🙁 Back in two weeks, I guess. #

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Twitter Updates for 2007-12-31

  • Just caught up on 12+ pages of twitters. I might have to stop following some of you people. Don’t you ever shut up? 😉 #
  • And that only included some of the 18 pages that I had to catch up on after we returned from traveling for 6 days… #
  • @rands re: todo systems — have you seen ViaList? Windows client is smart/intuitive, and there’s web access, too. http://www.vialist.com/ #
  • @rands Of course, I can also recommend Tasks, which my employer produces. But @gfmorris already told you that. #
  • I think I’ll shut down this laptop now, and go play with the Nintendo DS that I got for Christmas… #
  • Thinking about dinner and a movie. Dinner: steaks at Longhorn. Movie: National Treasure: Book of Secrets. Kids: None. Sweet 🙂 #

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