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Posted on 06-01-08 07:11:40 AM

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I'm already using it, but I will on that day, assuming I'm on the computer.

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Posted on 06-02-08 04:17:40 AM

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Using the 64-bit version, will switch to most updated version if they have it there for me to use :p

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Posted on 06-04-08 12:21:07 AM

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I'll stick to Opera thank you. As many memories I have of Firefox, Opera just seems to hold me in it's arms at night.

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Posted on 06-04-08 08:16:52 PM

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Opera irritates me with its tab-switching.

Firefox 3 is lovely.

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Posted on 06-04-08 08:21:55 PM

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With it's Tab-Switching? What do you mean...?

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Posted on 06-04-08 11:00:28 PM

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When you close a tab via Ctrl+W, it goes to the furthest tab to the left.

Just something minor that irritated me, and I didn't feel like seeing if there was a was to change it. Just like having the window frame/border on the left side. It was weird, and I didn't like it.

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Posted on 06-04-08 11:04:50 PM

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The border on the left is gone in the beta I am using, and also, it doesn't do that "furthest to the left" in the beta I am using either. You lose

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Posted on 06-04-08 11:26:54 PM (last edited by Xkeeper at 06-04-08 08:28 PM)

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I'm pretty sure Opera has almost always gone to the previously-used tab when you close one (or at least has an option for it) ... Firefox, on the other hand, always goes to the right-most tab, which makes your argument seem a bit stupid.

Also, who knows? It's just like every other Firefox thing: HELP SPREAD FIREFOX; EVERYTHING ELSE IS EVIL AND MUST BE DEMOLISHED.

It's like a virus, honestly.

Edit: Actually, it's rather disgusting that people are willing to spend all this time "pledging downloads" or "spreading the news" when there are far more worthwhile things that could be done.

Then again I guess anything above "clicking a button" is too hard for most people.

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Posted on 06-08-08 05:13:47 PM

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I don't think it's that bad. And it's certainly not a bad browser to use. I'll do it, don't know if I'll actually use it, as FireFox 2 is fine for me right now, but hell, maybe I'll like it.

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Posted on 06-12-08 08:47:26 PM

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Posted on 06-12-08 09:56:09 PM

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The official date for the launch of Firefox 3 is June 17, 2008. Join our community and this effort by pledging today.

5 days until 1 million people (including myself) download Firefox 3

I didn't bother with Firefox 2 here since it wasn't enough of an upgrade over 1.5 (new look for tabs, spellcheck, then what, security?), but this time there actually seems to be an improvement

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Posted on 06-12-08 10:12:29 PM

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I think it's pretty cool Brazil is on the top5. I can be proud of at least one thing in this country.

Opera is still superior, but some things piss me off:

- Opera 9.whatever compared to 7.54 has HUGE memory usage. It's like firefox except not as bad
- Opera crashes when it runs out of cache space
- Tab switching. Every program that supports tabs should allow tab switching by using ctrl/alt+number.
- Lack of extensions. Widgets suck.

Still, when it comes to rendering, Opera beats FF anytime. Also for memory usage, download manager, tabs, etc.

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Posted on 06-12-08 10:15:14 PM

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Originally posted by Kagome
- Lack of extensions. Widgets suck.

I remember reading somewhere that extension support was coming in Opera 10. I'm not sure where or even when I read that, but it'd make sense.

Opera's eating 110M of memory right now, but that's mostly because I told it to since it isn't like I don't have about 1 GB of RAM sitting idle all the time anyway.

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Posted on 06-12-08 10:20:14 PM

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Yeah, I don't know what they changed in the code. Check 7.54. It works wonders even in super old machines like mine (1200mhz).

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Posted on 06-15-08 08:39:39 PM

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Originally posted by Kagome
Yeah, I don't know what they changed in the code. Check 7.54. It works wonders even in super old machines like mine (1200mhz).

Since when is 1200 MHz super old?

200 MHz, maybe...

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Posted on 06-15-08 08:58:34 PM

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Super old? Not 200 Mhz.

50 MHz. 486 Territory.

200 MHz was about a Pentium MMX, which occurred in the 1993-ish era. Although that's 15 years ago, the super old stuff (I.E., borderline unusuable) really occurs in the original Pentium-486 era.

However I have been able to run mIRC, notepad, Windows 3.11, and 16-bit equivalents of the programs I use today on it...

So even then it may require something truly worthless to fail at computing.

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Posted on 06-15-08 10:57:52 PM

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Heh, the point where I started paying attention to computers specs was on a 200 MHz Pentium MMX... I remember looking at computer magazines when the Pentium 2 came out and being angry that Intel would release something better than what I had

Last time I used that computer I was able to run Firefox ~1.5 alright, though it was slow and I switched back to Firebird 0.7...

A 486 is just ancient, though... Though I suppose even that is better than the original PC- 8088, at 4.77 MHz... try to get anything done on that

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Posted on 06-15-08 11:46:56 PM

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I had a 286 for a good while into 200X (it was dismantled sometime in 2004, I think), complete with working turbo button

(Which actually doubled the CPU speed, from 10MHz to 20)

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Posted on 06-16-08 05:22:45 AM

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Originally posted by Xkeeper
I had a 286 for a good while into 200X (it was dismantled sometime in 2004, I think), complete with working turbo button

(Which actually doubled the CPU speed, from 10MHz to 20)

I have a computer that has a turbo button. It stopped working a few years ago, but while it did work, the turbo button was always on

. (300MHz --> 433MHz)

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