Everyone’s favourite fox was updated late yesterday, and early reports are suggesting that it’s a lot 
quicker to load pages. I haven’t been able to get to testing yet, but there’s a pretty long list of bugs that were fixed. This moves the fox to 3.0.4, and a little closer to my heart, if reports are correct and it’s running smoother. I’ve slowly been migrating towards Safari, but it’s not a done deal. I’m open minded.
If you could change the fox in one way, what would it be? For me, a privacy mode (no, not for porn). I mean, my guests don’t want me knowing what they were up to on my machine while I run out for snacks. Would you want me knowing? I doubt it! ;)
November 13th, 2008 at 3:40 pm
Firefox 3.1, close to Beta 2 now, will feature a Private Browsing mode: http://mozillalinks.org/wp/2008/11/meet-firefox...
November 13th, 2008 at 8:24 pm
That's awesome. I'm not sure how i missed that one! Looking forward to 3.1 :)
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November 16th, 2008 at 10:12 am
Heard a number of comments about 3.0.4 reintroducing the infamous Firefox bloat and instability. Have you experienced this ? To be honest I never use FF and cant find a real killer feature that would make me switch to it. At one time I did use FF and got used to the plugin features but having not used it for a long time I dont really miss the ability to add-on to the browsers basic functionality.
Having said that I do think Apple could help Safari usage by developing a plugin community. I suspect they havent done this for the same reasons that they didnt allow 3rd party apps on the iPhone at first, ie to reduce support and problems due to non-Apple code.
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November 16th, 2008 at 6:10 pm
I'd love a better plugin system for safari. Firefox has a couple that I love. I haven't noticed much bloat yet in my usage. I do, however, interchange between safari and firefox on a daily basis. I'm gonna pay particular attention to the possibility of bloat this week. I'll be sure to pass a long any findings. :)
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November 16th, 2008 at 6:10 pm
I'd love a better plugin system for safari. Firefox has a couple that I love. I haven't noticed much bloat yet in my usage. I do, however, interchange between safari and firefox on a daily basis. I'm gonna pay particular attention to the possibility of bloat this week. I'll be sure to pass a long any findings. :)
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