On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 1:29 PM, Robert Munn wrote: > > I still use FF for almost everything, but it is definitely much less > stable these days. The most significant thing I have found is that if > I turn off all the add-ons, things improve dramatically. A few > observations: > > - Firebug is a HUGE resource hog. Turn it off unless you specifically need it. > - If you monitor memory usage and restart FF periodically, it plays > nice with others.
Ditto to all of the above. > - Tabs are great but we've become tab junkies. Do I really need eight > other open tabs while I type this message? Eight? Try 57. On the side, and color coded. Freaking plugins *rock*! > The Mozilla team needs to take a hard look at real-world usage and get > their hands around what's wrong. Seems to me it's the plugins. Which people should /probably/ be thinking about anyway. We're all happily socially pulling code from people and places we have no idea about, really. How many of us actually look at the source code, ja know? (And how awesome is it that like 90% of it is available to us!?!) If Git was made by BSD heads, you'd have to manually approve each incoming change. Three times. Or something like that. Random thought I had. Cool beans, right? Yeah. Anyways, I think it's the very things we love (the plugins, flash, javascript), that [mostly] cause the problems, ironically. It's all about moderation, and balance and whatnot. Maybe the FF peeps can do more to "protect" us from stuff, but conflicts/etc. are just a side-effect of a certain pattern (plugins, add-ons, what-have-you). It's the freedom to interact, neh? Do I really need to add that [mostly] no one forces us to install these plugins? The Civic is still a fine car w/o the neon & nitrous. I'll take the freedom, thank you. Just look at all the awesome plugins! I really don't mind reloading my 50+ tabs twice a week, for what I'm getting. And I switch up different browsers for doing different stuff, too. They've all got good and bad, but FF *freaking dusts* the rest, no question. "It's the plugins, stupid" -- to paraquote something or other. :DeN -- Talent is a faculty that is highly developed, but genius commands all the faculties. Francis Herbert Hedge ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Want to reach the ColdFusion community with something they want? Let them know on the House of Fusion mailing lists Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:313508 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
