Mozilla Firefox 8.0 In The Wild

[XorEaxEax]

Yet to a large degree web browsers can be judged on aspects such as speed and firefox is not on a par.

Can't say I've noticed any speed differences between Chrome and Firefox, is this while using some particular web tech? On the other hand I've noticed that Chrome uses a ton more memory than Firefox when I have 10+ pages open.

[AnonymousCoward]

Chrome runs as root??? Not for me.
You clearly have issues I've never had.... perhaps due to your crazy "run as root" setup?

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Yet to a large degree web browsers can be judged on aspects such as speed and firefox is not on a par.

Once the number of tabs goes into triple digits, I found Chrome even slower than Firefox.

[TheCycoONE]

Odd, one of the selling points of Fx 8 is that it's 20% faster than Fx 5 and on par with Chrome 14.

[Nevertime]

As for 'par with Chrome', I can only disagree as I find Firefox to be a much better browser package overall. However, that's all about preference.

To some degree its subjective such when it comes to features (like the new twitter feature) and gui design.
Yet to a large degree web browsers can be judged on aspects such as speed and firefox is not on a par.

[XorEaxEax]

Chrome runs as root??? Not for me.
You clearly have issues I've never had.... perhaps due to your crazy "run as root" setup?

Likely he referred to having to use administrator rights to install it in Windows (due to Chrome installing window services), which isn't necessary with Firefox on windows.

As for 'par with Chrome', I can only disagree as I find Firefox to be a much better browser package overall. However, that's all about preference.

[Nevertime]

When it renders big black boxes instead of Flash, pisses all over your system settings, acts as a keylogger for Google, and runs as root (like Chrome), you'll be happy?

Chrome runs as root??? Not for me.
You clearly have issues I've never had.... perhaps due to your crazy "run as root" setup?

[Teho]

When it renders big black boxes instead of Flash, pisses all over your system settings, acts as a keylogger for Google, and runs as root (like Chrome), you'll be happy?

None of those are even true. If flash doesn't work for you, then it isn't packaged correctly. You can disable the autosearch on omnibar or change the search engine to something else and then it doesn't send anything back to Google. Chrome doesn't run as root or affect any system settings, I have no idea where one would get such ideas.

[DaemonFC]

What firefox need to do is release an update that gets it on a par with chrome.

When it renders big black boxes instead of Flash, pisses all over your system settings, acts as a keylogger for Google, and runs as root (like Chrome), you'll be happy?

[Nevertime]

What firefox need to do is release an update that gets it on a par with chrome.

[Kivada]

This topic flamed pretty early. O.o

But yeah, they need to do something so that the plugins stop being auto turned off until the plugin developers update the string saying they're compatible, if they're going to keep on with this montly release.

Adding another search engine in the list of options for search engines isn't that big a deal. Chill.

Oh, you mean like Nightly Tester Tools https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/fir...-tester-tools/ which has only been around for forever and a day?

Though addon and plugin devs have no excuse since it's damn simple to install the Aurora and Nightly builds and the release dates already well known.