One of the most commented on articles we’ve ever published was Is Firefox 3.5 crap? I never had a problem with 3.5, but I’ve been using it on a Mac.
Now, version 3.6 has been released for both Mac and Windows. I downloaded the Mac version and it is definitely faster than 3.5. I’ve been using Chrome recently, but it isn’t a finished product yet and needs work – it’s printing is especially poor, so I’m going to go back to Firefox and see how 3.6 runs.
Let’s hear how it is doing for you.
I started to download 3.6 but it says it is not compatible with my IE Tab add-on. Guess I’ll wait until they update that add-on.
Firefox 3.6 adds in a lot of goodies for web developers. The changes to the add-ons/extensions API might require their authors to keep up so we might have to wait a while for some less-actively maintained plugins to become available on Firefox 3.6.
Works great so far, but then again I never had any trouble at all with the previous version on Vista.
One thing that is annoying with 3.6, however, is that whenever I click on an RSS feed to view it in the Bookmarks toolbar it moves things around slightly.
I had problems with Firefox 3.5 (on Mac OS X Snow Leopard). I start a lot of web pages from Either Twitter or Emacs. These open new windows in Firefox which I then close after reading. It seems that Firefox 3.5 has problems with that kind of use. Maybe they are memory leaks or at least suboptimal memory management. After some time it got very sluggish, causing a lot of paging and I had to quit and restart it. Sometimes it would even stop responding.
My initial experience with Firefox 3.6 is that this is much less of an issue. I haven’t had to restart it after a few days of use. VM used keeps within reasonable bounds. It also looks like it is using less CPU.
That was quick. Just got an update for the bookmarks toolbar and the twitching is gone 🙂