[56K WARN] I love Firefox, no really, I do...

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anjanesh
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Post by anjanesh »

feyd wrote:I'm updating to Deer Park, mostly for the SVG support (which we'll be using heavily for our charting, when possible ;))
Wouldnt it be the same if you installed SVG Viewer Plugin from Adobe on FF 1.0.6 ?
So now DeerPark comes with pre-installed SVG support ?
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Post by Roja »

anjanesh wrote: Wouldnt it be the same if you installed SVG Viewer Plugin from Adobe on FF 1.0.6 ?
Not at all. That plugin crashes FF on many platforms in fact (before 1.5).
anjanesh wrote:So now DeerPark comes with pre-installed SVG support ?
Not just pre-installed, NATIVE support, its part of the browser, NOT an addon.
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i just installed it, had to tweak my extentions a bit to make them compatible, but im loving it so far :D
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Post by m3mn0n »

My personal record is 576,000K heh

I can't wait for a stable 1.5 release because that's when I'm updating :)
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Post by feyd »

well.. after a day or so of running 1.5 Beta 1 without closing, it's up to 100M of RAM, but that's a slower curve than before, so I'm happier, but not so much happy per se.. :)
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Post by Ambush Commander »

Main problem is that Mozilla development is rather laid back about memory footprint increases. They've got a very strict performance regression policy, but increases in the memory footprint generally don't cause the branch to be frozen.

Hmm... you know what I'd really like to do now? Make a website with an SVG+CSS+HTML design (you know, use SVG where you would have used images... that would be so cool, except I have no clue where to start).
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Just to make sure everyone is aware: https://addons.mozilla.org/messages/307259.html
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What exacly is the purpose of network.enableIDN ?
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IDN = International Domain Names... UNICODE character-set domains..
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Post by patrikG »

Firefox 1.5 beta 1 is beautiful! What a great piece of software. It renders pages even faster, manages updates much more coherently and comfortably, feels just like one mean machine. Loving it already - and hasn't crashed on me once. Memorywise it seems to have improved, but I've not had it long enough to be say much about it.

Only downside, atm, are that not all the extensions are working with it - but that's only a question of time - and with the updates manager it's easy.
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Post by Chris Corbyn »

Code: Select all

Tasks:  75 total,   2 running,  72 sleeping,   0 stopped,   1 zombie
Cpu(s):  1.7% us,  1.0% sy,  0.0% ni, 97.3% id,  0.0% wa,  0.0% hi,  0.0% si
Mem:    514184k total,   403176k used,   111008k free,    26148k buffers
Swap:  1036152k total,     1532k used,  1034620k free,   192416k cached

  PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  COMMAND
12034 root      15   0  181m  49m 3124 S  0.7  9.9  16:00.96 X
14133 d11wtq    15   0 58716  42m  19m S  0.7  8.5   9:10.25 firefox-bin
14137 d11wtq    15   0 58716  42m  19m S  0.7  8.5   0:06.05 firefox-bin
13612 d11wtq    16   0 27012  16m  12m R  0.3  3.3   0:26.66 konsole
    1 root      16   0  1444  456  420 S  0.0  0.1   0:01.73 init
Each window in mine uses about 8% Mem (from 512MB)... that's version 1.0.6 Linux. I have noticed in the upgarde frm 1.0.5 to 1.0.6 forms (???) seem to have gotten buggy and slow (i.e. the cursor takes a while to move from one box to the next). Macromedia Flash page components usually send my CPU sky-high too :(
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Post by anjanesh »

According to this :
Firefox security hole reported
Firefox users have been alerted to a potential security flaw in the open source browser. The news will come as an embarrassment to the developers who have just released a beta of version 1.5 which is intended to address a number of security issues.

According to security researcher Tom Ferris a buffer overflow vulnerability exists within the current Firefox version 1.0.6, all previous versions and the beta of 1.5. Ferris says a strikingly simple piece of HTML can allow an attacker to remotely execute arbitrary code on an affected host.

Ferris says he has notified the team at Mozilla about the problem and awaits their response. The Mozilla team says they are currently investigating the reported vulnerability. However, Ferris's claims cannot be easily dismissed as he has a track record of discovering new bugs in Windows software.

Although initially billed as a more secure browser than Internet Explorer, Firefox has had its own share of security problems in the past few months. However, the Mozilla team is pressing ahead with the new versions ahead of the next release of Internet Explorer expected before the end of the year.
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Post by Deemo »

i love how people think that just because you have firefox, you have a shield. All programs have bugs, and holes will be found. its just that Firefox has less holes than IE :P
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I'd also add that they'll issue a fix quicker than IE as well.
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Post by anjanesh »

Any chance of FF 1.5 playing sound when it reads VoiceXML tags ?
Im waiting for such a thing to happen. It would be really cool !
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