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Re: Victory Over The Sucky Firefox 3 Address Bar!
« Reply #15 on: August 14, 2008, 12:20:41 am »
My firefox is a were-redpanda! While I chug along on my home boxen, upgrading as each new release comes out, everything has been great.

My work box (a 3-year old Dell) has it's applications installed/patched remotely by our IMO shop. On last monday, FF was broke!! By wendsday, they had installed a bright, shiny new 3.0 version. Overnight, it xformed to 2.0.0.16.., then the following night was back to 3.0. This morning, it is 2.0.0.15!  Clearly affected by the moon.

Digging into the logfiles, I discover that each morning _and_ evening, the IMO folks are uninstalling and re-installed each version.

I just howled...
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Re: Victory Over The Sucky Firefox 3 Address Bar!
« Reply #16 on: August 14, 2008, 03:38:57 am »
Sounds to me like they're idiots. ;D
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Re: Victory Over The Sucky Firefox 3 Address Bar!
« Reply #17 on: August 14, 2008, 05:28:26 am »
Yeah, that's... if nothing else, a huge waste of time and resources. Day and night shifts probably have differing opinions about which version is best. :-)
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Re: Victory Over The Sucky Firefox 3 Address Bar!
« Reply #18 on: August 14, 2008, 03:01:55 pm »
Psh, run both... oi! Granted you can't run them at the exact same time, but you can still install them both at once and use whatever one you want to.

I stand by the idiots remark.  ;)
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Re: Victory Over The Sucky Firefox 3 Address Bar!
« Reply #19 on: September 24, 2008, 07:12:18 pm »
I just installed all these wonderful new Firefox add-ons the other day. Too bad they lag my computer like hell. e_e I can't even tell which ones are doing it...

I don't get it. Why does it require so much of my computer?!

It doesn't affect my powerbook as much (I installed all the same add-ons on it), but it has more RAM, so...
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Re: Victory Over The Sucky Firefox 3 Address Bar!
« Reply #20 on: September 26, 2008, 08:47:57 pm »
In other news... just use Google Chrome.  ::)
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Re: Victory Over The Sucky Firefox 3 Address Bar!
« Reply #21 on: September 27, 2008, 04:20:32 am »
Whoa... I was just wondering if such a browser existed. Thanks, Google! (Too bad I think the name is silly. Oh well, what's in a name?)
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Re: Victory Over The Sucky Firefox 3 Address Bar!
« Reply #22 on: September 27, 2008, 04:33:15 am »
Wow, Chrome sure is different...but in a good way, I suppose.

It's certainly a more streamlined view, it's like you're constantly in f11 mode. I wonder what would happen if I...

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Re: Victory Over The Sucky Firefox 3 Address Bar!
« Reply #23 on: September 27, 2008, 09:39:35 pm »
*hits F11*
...Oh. Hehehe, neat.
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Re: Victory Over The Sucky Firefox 3 Address Bar!
« Reply #24 on: October 05, 2008, 06:00:18 pm »
It has other nice features too. Ever had those web pages that bring down your browser? Well Chrome actually runs each tab in its own process, so when one crashes the entire browser doesn't go with it. If you also notice, the search bar at the top actually, well searches as you type (using Google of course).
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Re: Victory Over The Sucky Firefox 3 Address Bar!
« Reply #25 on: October 06, 2008, 01:22:19 am »
I just installed it today (I found out my firewall was blocking the installer)... Pretty nice. I like having a browser without all the crap. Also, one that doesn't kill my websites.
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Re: Victory Over The Sucky Firefox 3 Address Bar!
« Reply #26 on: October 08, 2008, 02:22:49 am »
Thing is, FireFox has a whole crap ton of addons that neither IE8 or Chrome have, which still makes it rather superior for a great many things.
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Re: Victory Over The Sucky Firefox 3 Address Bar!
« Reply #27 on: October 11, 2008, 03:16:26 am »
Whoa... there's an IE8?
I'm behind the times! ...Oh, I see, it's in beta. %D

I like my new Firefox addons, even if they do make things laggy. ;x; <3
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Re: Victory Over The Sucky Firefox 3 Address Bar!
« Reply #28 on: October 11, 2008, 06:03:47 am »
Yeah, beta. But IE8 is a hell of an improvement over it's predecessors. It's actually got REAL javascript debugging tools now!
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Re: Victory Over The Sucky Firefox 3 Address Bar!
« Reply #29 on: October 15, 2008, 08:52:43 pm »
Oh man. I don't really get why Google Chrome doesn't show new tabs as a blank page after I set it that way... or why it has a heart attack and freezes/lags my computer when I try to upload via photobucket. Or why input/radio buttons don't show up. lol.
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