Comments on: Five Reasons to Celebrate Firefox’s Fifth Birthday http://technologizer.com/2009/11/09/five-reasons-to-celebrate-firefoxs-fifth-birthday/ Reviews, News, and Opinion About Personal Technology by Harry McCracken & Friends Fri, 10 Feb 2012 21:35:20 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Mark Zip http://technologizer.com/2009/11/09/five-reasons-to-celebrate-firefoxs-fifth-birthday/comment-page-1/#comment-29544 Mon, 09 Nov 2009 21:36:53 +0000 http://technologizer.com/?p=19506#comment-29544 Security:
When my boss was on (slow, rural) dial-up and thus unable to easily update his Win2K install, I was always pretty sanguine about his browsing security because FF was set up with AdBlock Plus, NoScript and FlashBlock. It is *really* difficult to get a nasty in this scenario.

Speed: Using only those add-ons (and with careful hosts file management) we were able to get browsing speeds up to manageable levels compared to IE 6.
Yes, the memory usage issues of 18 months ago were a pain, but 3.6 beta is getting back to the right place.

Happy birthday FF! I still have that first NYTimes full-page ad somewhere, with my name proudly highlighted!

]]> By: Austin Personal Injury Lawyer http://technologizer.com/2009/11/09/five-reasons-to-celebrate-firefoxs-fifth-birthday/comment-page-1/#comment-29537 Mon, 09 Nov 2009 20:33:23 +0000 http://technologizer.com/?p=19506#comment-29537 I love firefox. Ever since I first downloaded it, I haven’t looked back. Every once in a while, I have to use a different browser and it always seems inferior. Happy 5th birthday!

]]> By: Harry McCracken http://technologizer.com/2009/11/09/five-reasons-to-celebrate-firefoxs-fifth-birthday/comment-page-1/#comment-29534 Mon, 09 Nov 2009 19:08:08 +0000 http://technologizer.com/?p=19506#comment-29534 @Steven: Good point–I was talking about feature creep, not memory and disk footprint, but Firefox could indeed be more lithe on those fronts. One of the reasons that I’m looking forward to Chrome’s formal arrival on the Mac is because it should be more of a featherweight than Firefox.

–Harry

]]> By: Bouke Timbermont http://technologizer.com/2009/11/09/five-reasons-to-celebrate-firefoxs-fifth-birthday/comment-page-1/#comment-29533 Mon, 09 Nov 2009 18:57:10 +0000 http://technologizer.com/?p=19506#comment-29533 @Steven: check your mac. Here it takes about 7 seconds to start up after a fresh boot, 2 seconds for a restart after that and less than a blink to open up after closing the window… and that’s on a 2007 basic MBP.

]]> By: Steven Fisher http://technologizer.com/2009/11/09/five-reasons-to-celebrate-firefoxs-fifth-birthday/comment-page-1/#comment-29531 Mon, 09 Nov 2009 18:15:45 +0000 http://technologizer.com/?p=19506#comment-29531 I take some issue with the idea that Firefox has spurned bloat. Firefox for Mac is a 17.6MB download that takes forever to start up.

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