Firefox 13 Comes Online Early, Now Available for Download

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Tom's is full of kids. Silly kids.

 

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[citation][nom]mayankleoboy1[/nom]http://www.palemoon.org/[/citation]
It is nothing more than a huge pile of remux wrapped in lies. They have nothing to do with any of the significant FF-developing projects that actually shows up something: MemShrink, IonMonkey, Snappy, etc
What they do is like buying a Ferrari, boosting the 500 horsepower engine to 530, changing the seats and than they (or more like, the fans of PaleMoon and WaterFox) start claiming that they're so much batter at making cars and Ferrari should just quit.
Also, auto-update can be disabled, or refused when installing, nothing complicated.

Restored background tabs are not loaded by default for faster startup

It was present even before, they only made it the default behavior. For haters: it can be disabled, just go to Options.

[citation][nom]Pherule[/nom]>"When opening a new tab, users are now presented with their most visited pages"
Would have been better to implement a speed dial. Once you start using a speed dial it's difficult to go back to anything else.[/citation]
No matter how I look at it, it is exactly looks like Speed Dial. Take a look at it, and correct me if I am mistaken.

For those who are interested: limited multithread support is under heavy development. It won't implement the "one process per tab" way, but separating web-content and the GUI, what should be a huge improvement for responsiveness, stability and processing capacity, without using a lot of memory.

 

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[citation][nom]srap[/nom]It is nothing more than a huge pile of remux wrapped in lies. They have nothing to do with any of the significant FF-developing projects that actually shows up something: MemShrink, IonMonkey, Snappy, etcWhat they do is like buying a Ferrari, boosting the 500 horsepower engine to 530, changing the seats and than they (or more like, the fans of PaleMoon and WaterFox) start claiming that they're so much batter at making cars and Ferrari should just quit.Also, auto-update can be disabled, or refused when installing, nothing complicated.It was present even before, they only made it the default behavior. For haters: it can be disabled, just go to Options.No matter how I look at it, it is exactly looks like Speed Dial. Take a look at it, and correct me if I am mistaken.For those who are interested: limited multithread support is under heavy development. It won't implement the "one process per tab" way, but separating web-content and the GUI, what should be a huge improvement for responsiveness, stability and processing capacity, without using a lot of memory.[/citation]

The Pale Moon Project doesn't claim that they are doing anything other than taking FF source code and removing some things that they think are unnecessary and then giving it a new name and icon since Mozilla doesn't want people making customized version of FF and passing them off as the original. I don't recall seeing the dev for the project badmouthing Mozilla and saying that they are doing all the work and Mozilla isn't or anything like that. I use Pale moon, but I'm not being some idiot like these fans that you refer to and I can say that yeah, Pale Moon is just a customized FF that is a little faster and uses a little less memory than the original with a slightly different UI, icon, and a different name. I don't know of anyone who said that Mozilla should just quit and let the Pale Moon guys make the browser instead. The dev doesn't claim that they do any significant developing of FF, at least not the last time I checked his site.

 

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[citation][nom]blazorthon[/nom]The Pale Moon Project doesn't claim that [...][/citation]
I guess I went a little overboard when I wrote that one. Actually, I have nothing against the vendors of PM, but more like the fans (nom: "or more like, the fans of PaleMoon and WaterFox"). Though, this is no excuse for badmouthing them, I admit.
It just makes me angry to see these fans hopping up and down, at every FF article/news, saying "this is so much batter", while the differences are not that significant at 95% of the time. Even if someone experiences that it works better, it is only the result of a completely new and blank profile. No outdated add-ons, no corrupted files, no toolbars, etc.

 

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WHERE IS THE FIREFOXY GIRL PIC THAT APPEARS WHEN THERE IS A NEW FIREFOX???... 🙁

 

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[citation][nom]srap[/nom]I guess I went a little overboard when I wrote that one. Actually, I have nothing against the vendors of PM, but more like the fans (nom: "or more like, the fans of PaleMoon and WaterFox"). Though, this is no excuse for badmouthing them, I admit.It just makes me angry to see these fans hopping up and down, at every FF article/news, saying "this is so much batter", while the differences are not that significant at 95% of the time. Even if someone experiences that it works better, it is only the result of a completely new and blank profile. No outdated add-ons, no corrupted files, no toolbars, etc.[/citation]

Ahh... I can see how that would get annoying. It's been a while since UI did a blank install to blank install comparison between FF and PM, but back with version 7, PM was noticeably faster (noticeable, granted still not by a huge margin) in many situations.... However, if anyone claims that it's so much faster that it's a whole new experience, then they're BSing you. It's not much of a difference. PM makes a bigger difference in memory usage than in actual performance, at least it did when I switched. Things might be a little different for FF now and they might be even closer. I've used FF in a couple of updates since 7 (up to 9), but I haven't done a comparison.