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I just noticed this in aurora and nightly. Tearing a tab from one monitor to my second monitor now opens that window on the monitor I dragged it too! (before if would open the window in the same place on the primary monitor every time, very annoying)

Is there a way to make Aurora builds to truly auto-download the update? In chrome dev channel, the browser immediately checks for latest version, auto-downloads, and waits to install the update on the next restart. But with aurora, I find myself having to go to Menu>help>about in order for it to detect there is a daily update available and start the download, which in essence isn't a truly silent update process as I would like to see.

Is there a way to make Aurora builds to truly auto-download the update? In chrome dev channel, the browser immediately checks for latest version, auto-downloads, and waits to install the update on the next restart. But with aurora, I find myself having to go to Menu>help>about in order for it to detect there is a daily update available and start the download, which in essence isn't a truly silent update process as I would like to see.

Fairly sure it does auto download, just not immediately. It'll require big changes to not prompt you for the update install, though.

the home tab with the sped dial and then some... like it has a weather forecast and other cool stuff! can't wait!

It might be in the UX build which is separate from the nightlies.

It's a terrible, bloaty feature.

it's not bad. I think there's an addon for that. didn't bother me much.

Agreed, but the one thing I love about FF is you can always customize or turn off what you don't like. For the time being, I will continue to use about:blank :laugh:

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Think they did some more memory optimizations with the latest Aurora nightly. Restarted Aurora v7, only two tabs open currently, this one and the Neowin Spy page.. and I'm sitting at little under 190MB memory used by Firefox (with a fair number of addons), about 100ish less than from restarting yesterday's build.

For the time being, I will continue to use about:blank :laugh:

+1, it's been my home page for years. Bookmarks and the jump list are a lot more convenient than a speed-dial like system.

Think they did some more memory optimizations with the latest Aurora nightly. Restarted Aurora v7, only two tabs open currently, this one and the Neowin Spy page.. and I'm sitting at little under 190MB memory used by Firefox (with a fair number of addons), about 100ish less than from restarting yesterday's build.

+1, it's been my home page for years. Bookmarks and the jump list are a lot more convenient than a speed-dial like system.

Yeah, I'm amazed right now. My memory usage cut by about 100K as well even with more tabs open than yesterday (usually keep about 5-6 pinned for email, calendar, etc).

It's all about efficiency. I actually have my browser set to open tabs from last session. When I do open a new tab with Ctrl+T, by default FF focuses the address bar to make it real easy to just simply type in what site I want to go to and select its bookmark. Just doesn't make any sense to use the mouse at all and waste resources rendering the full speed dial.

Speed dial is good. Panorama was a waste of time though.

Yeah, I think opera's tab stacking was a far better and easier to use approach than panorama. Panorama is the very definition of being over engineered. I never even use it because its just too much for must scenarios, unless you constantly use an ungodly amount of tabs.

When i open firefox 7a2 and try to load a page or few, it doesn't start to load right away. It waits for 15-30 seconds before loading. Same goes for downloads too. It starts with speeds like 50-100 b/s. After 15-30 seconds, it finds its true speed which 8 mbps. Anyone has a similiar problem? It's very annoying.

When i open firefox 7a2 and try to load a page or few, it doesn't start to load right away. It waits for 15-30 seconds before loading. Same goes for downloads too. It starts with speeds like 50-100 b/s. After 15-30 seconds, it finds its true speed which 8 mbps. Anyone has a similiar problem? It's very annoying.

Must be something due to the updates for the last day or two. Tabs that I had opened in my last session do take some time to load on a cold start. Just another occasional bump in the road when testing alpha builds.

When i open firefox 7a2 and try to load a page or few, it doesn't start to load right away. It waits for 15-30 seconds before loading. Same goes for downloads too. It starts with speeds like 50-100 b/s. After 15-30 seconds, it finds its true speed which 8 mbps. Anyone has a similiar problem? It's very annoying.

Do you have an addon called "WebMail Notifier" installed?If you do it may be because of it.I had such problems when it is set to check the mailboxes at browser startup.If you have the addon try unchecking the check on startup or disabling the addon to see if it helps.

Does anyone know how to completely disable the scrolling acceleration in Firefox 6? I have a free scrolling mouse wheel and everything else on Windows reacts on a dime. Firefox, however, feels like it has "fat" web pages that take forever to start scrolling.

Do you have an addon called "WebMail Notifier" installed?If you do it may be because of it.I had such problems when it is set to check the mailboxes at browser startup.If you have the addon try unchecking the check on startup or disabling the addon to see if it helps.

Edit: No, sorry, it didn't work. Happened same thing after I removed it.

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