Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Fire the fox.

[me]

On Sun, Sep 19, 2010 at 1:18 PM, Mick <michaelkintzios@×××××.com> wrote:
> On Sunday 19 September 2010 18:07:11 me wrote:
>> On Sun, Sep 19, 2010 at 2:42 AM, Daniel da Veiga
>>
>> <danieldaveiga@×××××.com> wrote:
>> > On Sun, Sep 19, 2010 at 03:21, Francesco Talamona
>> >
>> > <francesco.talamona@××××.eu> wrote:
>> >> On Sunday 19 September 2010, Kevin O'Gorman wrote:
>> >>> Is it just me?  Or does Firefox get slower every release?  And less
>> >>> stable.
>> >>>
>> >>> I got myself up to the latest, and I cannot install my 4 add-ons
>> >>> (xmarks, AdBlockPlus, Noscript, Stumble-upon) without it crashing.
>> >>> Seg fault sometimes.  I've got ECC memory, and no reported problems,
>> >>> and it does not help to clear the profiles (rename ~/.mozilla)  and
>> >>> re-emerge.
>> >>>
>> >>> Grrrrrr.
>> >>
>> >> Ditto. Every time slower and less stable. And when it crashes makes the
>> >> X destop crash too, I use it with firebug and it's slow as molasses.
>> >>
>> >> Looking forward to FF4, still not tried on Linux.
>> >>
>> >> greets
>> >>        FT
>> >>
>> >> --
>> >> Linux Version 2.6.35-gentoo-r7, Compiled #1 SMP PREEMPT Fri Sep 17
>> >> 21:01:33 CEST 2010
>> >> Two 2.4GHz AMD Athlon 64 Processors, 4GB RAM, 9648.04 Bogomips Total
>> >> aemaeth
>> >
>> > Well, guess I'm lucky then.
>> > I used it since 2.x and never had any problems. Never needed other
>> > browser in Linux. Looking forward for 4.x, but still, 3.6.x is my
>> > personal choice. Don't like chromium, not enough extensions, can't
>> > stand Opera, Safari or Konqueror for the same reason. If flashblock,
>> > noscript and adblock were available at any browser I could try it, but
>> > still, I don't see it in a near future.
>> >
>> > --
>> > Daniel da Veiga
>>
>> Chrome's set of extensions is growing rather large, and at least
>> contains most of what anyone would need, a bit short of 'want', but
>> covers needs fairly well. If you don't like chrome's interface I'll
>> not argue, but if the extensions are the one thing stopping you from
>> giving it a real try...
>>
>> Not quite NoScript, but aims to do the job:
>> https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/odjhifogjcknibkahlpidmdajjpkkcf
>> n?hl=en
>>
>> Flashblock:
>> https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/gofhjkjmkpinhpoiabjplobcaignabn
>> l?hl=en
>>
>> Adblock:
>> https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/gighmmpiobklfepjocnamgkkbiglido
>> m?hl=en
>>
>> The biggest reason I've taken to using chrome, though, is that it
>> seems (purely subjective) to render pages far faster than anything
>> else I've used, though I've not run opera or safari in a very long
>> time.
>
> Opera is faster than FF for sure both on my amd64 and my x86.  I tried Chrome
> once (early days then) and I couldn't tell if it was faster.  I gave up on it
> because I was not sure if the browser was calling home with my browsing habits
> and if these were identifiable as coming from my machine/IP address.  In other
> words I wasn't sure to what extent Google was recording my Internet journeys.
> --
> Regards,
> Mick
>

I decided to forgo letting myself worry over what google is/isn't
getting regarding my internet usage around the time I started using
gmail, since I'm practically handing them more through that than any
access to my browser history or the like gives.

-- 
Poison [BLX]
Joshua M. Murphy