Firefox 3.6 released

Gary · Jan 29, 2010, 08:11:32

Quote from: Niall on Jan 28, 2010, 20:41:06
I can't help but notice, the Google opt out plugin is taking it's sweet time being updated.

I stopped using it, Adblock plus and Easy privacy do enough on their own, and my browsing seemed slightly faster without it Niall

Niall · Jan 30, 2010, 09:46:37

I've never heard of easy privacy, wossat then?

Gary · Jan 30, 2010, 09:53:44

Quote from: Niall on Jan 30, 2010, 09:46:37
I've never heard of easy privacy, wossat then?

http://easylist.adblockplus.org/ just click add Easy Privacy. Its from the same people that provide the EasyList, Niall. It ads privacy from tracking, web bugs and google syndication amongst many others

Niall · Jan 30, 2010, 10:07:40

Oo I'll have a nose at that, ta!

Baz · Jan 30, 2010, 18:40:32

just trying the new FF today.seems faster doesn't it.and yes the squiggly lines are thicker

Rik · Jan 30, 2010, 18:43:17

Thanks for confirming that, Baz. I'm seeing an issue which may be the new version. After a prolonged spell of use, there appears to be significant memory leakage, and FF will fully load one core when you click on a link in the forum and a 'new message' pop up window appears. It takes about 20 seconds to sort itself.

Baz · Jan 30, 2010, 19:14:43

havent noticed anything yet.is it a click on any link Rik or certain ones

Rik · Jan 31, 2010, 10:44:37

It mainly happens within the forum(s), Baz, as that's where these popups occur on trying to load a new page.

Niall · Jan 31, 2010, 10:48:51

Quote from: Rik on Jan 30, 2010, 18:43:17
Thanks for confirming that, Baz. I'm seeing an issue which may be the new version. After a prolonged spell of use, there appears to be significant memory leakage, and FF will fully load one core when you click on a link in the forum and a 'new message' pop up window appears. It takes about 20 seconds to sort itself.

I was seeing that on the old version of Firefox, but I haven't checked with this version. I removed a lot of things, but I have to wonder if it's anything Adobe related again as they caused a problem last time when they updated just after Firefox.

Rik · Jan 31, 2010, 10:49:59

I don't use Adobe software, except Flash/Shockwave, Niall, but I suppose it could be them.

Niall · Jan 31, 2010, 10:55:15

Yeah, it was shockwave I was thinking of as that was just updated. I didn't notice any problems on my mums old PC the other day when I installed all the latest updates. That PC hasn't got shockwave installed.

Actually, just checking my usage now as I'm tying this, I can see it's using 126mb dropping to 123mb so I don't think it's going up, although that's a lot of memory compared to the old version.

Rik · Jan 31, 2010, 10:59:50

Thanks, Niall.

Gary · Feb 01, 2010, 11:18:35

Cant say I have noticed that Rik, FF has always had high memory usage, now if it was Chrome or IE8 I could understand more as they have tabs as separate processes, saying that I'm sure after a few tweaks it will settle down, mines using 54mb right now, but I have seen that rise to 148mb with 6 tabs open, it does let go of some but not as much as it should when you go back down to one tab, which is typical FF, then again with the amount of Ram most machines have now days that should not be to much of an issue.

Rik · Feb 01, 2010, 11:21:20

No, the RAM usage is almost incidental, Gary. The problem is the CPU usage, and it's only triggered by the new PM popup after I've been active for a while. I'd blame something external were it not for FF hogging the CPU at that point, and the fact it's only happened since I upgraded.

Gary · Feb 01, 2010, 11:44:13

Quote from: Rik on Feb 01, 2010, 11:21:20
No, the RAM usage is almost incidental, Gary. The problem is the CPU usage, and it's only triggered by the new PM popup after I've been active for a while. I'd blame something external were it not for FF hogging the CPU at that point, and the fact it's only happened since I upgraded.

I have noticed when you fire FF up CPU spikes at 50% on my Mac briefly which is a huge jump, they have tweaked it to start faster and the tab that's on top gets preference as well, I wonder if its something to do with that?

Rik · Feb 01, 2010, 11:48:38

Could well be, Gary.

Rik · Mar 23, 2010, 12:54:28

Firefox 3.6.2 released.

Simon · Mar 23, 2010, 12:55:13

Phew! That was close!

Rik · Mar 23, 2010, 12:57:27

I found that it wouldn't install from the normal 'restart Firefox now' screen. I had to manually shut Firefox and then restart.

Glenn · Mar 23, 2010, 12:59:43

I just updated then restarted from the link, it worked fine.

Rik · Mar 23, 2010, 13:02:12

Must be an addon at play...

kinmel · Mar 23, 2010, 14:29:28

I had updated to the beta which has magictronically turned into release version all on it's own

They have brought forward the update from 30th because of the zero day vuln that had been found.

Gary · Mar 23, 2010, 14:37:20

Quote from: kinmel on Mar 23, 2010, 14:29:28
I had updated to the beta which has magictronically turned into release version all on it's own

They have brought forward the update from 30th because of the zero day vuln that had been found.

You have to re-download it from the web site or you will get beta versions later when new ones are released as normally you stay on the beta update service even if you seem to have the full version.

Steve · Mar 23, 2010, 14:52:42

Some comments about various browsers and additional security possibiliites.

http://blogs.techworld.com/war-on-error/2010/03/the-german-governments-firefox-hysteria/

kinmel · Mar 23, 2010, 17:15:26

Quote from: Gary on Mar 23, 2010, 14:37:20
You have to re-download it from the web site or you will get beta versions later when new ones are released as normally you stay on the beta update service even if you seem to have the full version.

Thanks for that bit of info