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  1. Review - Mozilla Firefox for Windows (v2)

    1.0 Preview Release (0.10) Final (Sep 18, 2004)

    Firefox is a life and time saver! It loads pages in a flash and provides high security. Many secure sites provide 256-bit encryption, which Firefox can make use of while IE only can use 128-bit encr. Whenever I'm forced to use IE I feel completely crippled.

  2. Comment - Firefox turns five: Thanks for giving us a choice

    1.0 Preview Release (0.10) Final (Nov 10, 2009 - 4:27 AM)

    So, you wanna compare apples to pears to say that Chrome is lighter on memory?

    Edit: Although your conclusion about addons effect on memory consumption is wrong. The comparison I mentioned above was done with my 20+ extensions in Firefox.

  3. Comment - Firefox turns five: Thanks for giving us a choice

    1.0 Preview Release (0.10) Final (Nov 9, 2009 - 8:00 PM)

    True. I really don't understand why Opera isn't taking off. I guess it doesn't appeal to the open source savvy, who in turn promote their choice further down the food chain.

  4. Comment - Firefox turns five: Thanks for giving us a choice

    1.0 Preview Release (0.10) Final (Nov 9, 2009 - 7:26 PM)

    THIS is just simply incorrect:

    "It's gotten bigger and slower with each successive generation, and its prodigious use of memory and system resources remains a widespread source of irritation."

    Memory use:
    http://ejohn.org/blog/firefox-3-memory-use/
    http://arstechnica.com/o...y-than-ie-and-opera.ars

    And if you think Chrome is better, just open a set of pages in Firefox and then open the same pages in Chrome. Bam. It will immediately eat up at least the same amount of memory. Go ahead, try it.

    See also: http://davidnaylor.org/b...x-3-is-not-bloated.html

  5. Comment - Firefox 3.6 public beta slated for 10/14, promises faster startups, loads

    1.0 Preview Release (0.10) Final (Oct 7, 2009 - 11:22 PM)

    You're quite and utterly wrong.

    All major Firefox releases have been roughly a year apart. Firefox 3.6 is the first release ever to be shipped (?) in 6 months.