are the updates showing noticeable improvements?


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I've been using Firefox for probably about 1 year now and I'm a big fan and would never go back to IE.

I have always gotten the latest updates but to be honest I dont think I have actually noticed much overall improvement. I'm not saying they arent making them, they are probably important security updates and such that I am in favor of but one thing that has bugged me is that I still get multiple instances of Firefox running and hogging cpu when I only have one window opened and over the last 4 months or so it crashes a lot more often than it used to. I dont think it is my system, but does anyone else noticed these bugs (which seem quite major to me) havent been improved at all? Or maybe it is just me.

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I've noticed it too. I can have one window open and walk away from my computer and when i get back its hogging resources. At the moment with two tabs open for the past hour on google home page and neowin I'm now running at 61000kb! Dont get me wrong I love firefox too but there must be something they can do about the unexplained resource usage.

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Well, I'm not sure about your CPU prob, but sometimes when I have flash ads open for a while, Fx starts to use up a lot of CPU for me.

As for the improvements, most of the work being done on the 1.0x branch is mostly just security updates. Wait until Fx 1.5 comes out. That's when you will see lots of improvements. A lot of things are being worked on for things like patches and the extensions/themes manager. So just sit back and relax for a few months, and then you will notice much more improvements being done. :)

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Deer Park seem faster on atleast linux but I heard that a devleper only build? (will not be released to average joe's) Is this true?

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Deer Park seem faster on atleast linux but I heard that a devleper only build? (will not be released to average joe's) Is this true?

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Deerk Park is the codename for the 1.5 alphas, to stop people thinking it is a newer version and downloading it.

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There are two things that still bug me about Firefox:

1. Occassional crashes from Javascript, or badly-coded dynamic pages.

2. It won't stream files without additional extensions or hacks. There is no technical reason for this, whoever designed the download manager just hasn't bother to fix it.

To see that streaming is prevent purely by the download manager, try this test:

Find a streamable file like a wmv, or avi, or mpeg, mov, etc,. right click and choose Save As. Save it to your desktop. When the icon appears on the desktop and the file has started downloading, click on the icon. It starts streaming in your associated player (WMP, Quicktime, MPC, whatever). The only thing stopping that streaming functionality is this stupid, useless blockage by the download manager. At the minimum, there should be an option to disable download manager for certain files types so they could be streamed or managed by something else.

I hope someone at Mozilla reads this. :p

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Deerk Park is the codename for the 1.5 alphas, to stop people thinking it is a newer version and downloading it.

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why every build ive used so far works fine for me, and ive got the auto update downloading the nightly builds :p

although it did crash once and i couldnt send talkback data becuase it wouldnt connect to the talkback server :wacko:

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Has anyone noticed that in the last few days, that when manually hitting the check for updates button in the options, that it seems to take longer than usual. And when it's done, it's coming back saying it can't confirm updates for more and more extensions?

Is the update server broke or something?

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