Holy jebus FF3 RC1 is fast

by pdb on May 20, 2008 9:42 AM PDT

Go get Firefox 3 RC1. Go get it now. I just opened a 700+ post game thread in under 20 seconds (Beta 5 took about a minute). Gmail's lightning fast. The browser starts up almost instantaneously. And all this is on my crappy work network - can't wait to see what this does at home.

As long as you get the nightly tester tools addon , all your normal extensions will work fine (NTT 2.0.2 is compatible with FF3 RC1).

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I installed RC1 yesterday.

It is my new savior.

by BrianL on May 20, 2008 9:48 AM PDT 0 recs

I didn't think it would be a huge step from RC5

boy was I wrong. This is the coolest thing I’ve seen in a while.

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by pdb on May 20, 2008 9:51 AM PDT up 0 recs

Whoa. This is pretty sweet

and even though it’s really superficial, I like the new layout too.

by seattlebruin on May 20, 2008 9:57 AM PDT up 0 recs

your first mistake was using Vista

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by pdb on May 20, 2008 10:10 AM PDT up 0 recs

On a 400 dollar Walmart laptop thats been thrown across the room half a dozen times

I’ve had exactly zero issues with the operating system over the last 8 months

by Robert on May 20, 2008 10:19 AM PDT up 0 recs

Encouraging recommendation, sirs

I will have to download it tonight.

by Gomez on May 20, 2008 10:08 AM PDT 0 recs

It broke Speed Dial's shortcuts >:(

by Graham on May 20, 2008 10:13 AM PDT 0 recs

A couple of crashes

But overall I’ve been very impressed with FF3, Beta 4/5/RC1.

by phil333 on May 20, 2008 10:39 AM PDT 0 recs

For some odd reason I can't get to ESPN with RC1

but that’s not necessarily a loss.

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by pdb on May 20, 2008 10:41 AM PDT up 0 recs

Yes.

FF3 RC1 >>>>> anything else I’ve used. Even on my crappy 6-year-old Mac on the fringes of WiFi signal at home, it’s MUCH improved over everything else…

Ill Ligitamus Non Carberendum

by PositivePaul on May 20, 2008 11:09 AM PDT 0 recs

I just installed this ting and it feels like I'm going the speed of light on PCP

still needs more Bonds

by JI on May 20, 2008 11:13 AM PDT 0 recs

"LL Images Update" has returned to being a navigable thread, woo!

by Alex B on May 20, 2008 11:21 AM PDT up 0 recs

I forgot to mention that a T-Rex is piloting the browser, he has a laser helmet and he is also tripped out on PCP.

still needs more Bonds

by JI on May 20, 2008 11:22 AM PDT up 0 recs

Awesome.

by BrianL on May 20, 2008 11:29 AM PDT up 0 recs

Yeah it's pretty fast

The only thing I’ve noticed is that RC1 won’t load mlb.tv, I have to use the IE extension. In Beta 5 Firefox loads in naturally.

Felix Hernandez may be The King, but Justin Upton is a GOD.

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by Goose on May 20, 2008 11:57 AM PDT 0 recs

loads for me

still needs more Bonds

by JI on May 20, 2008 12:02 PM PDT up 0 recs

I think Safari is still faster, but i will try this FF

Camino and Opera are also nice

Pop goes the buttsy on the left hand side!!

by PhilKenSebben on May 20, 2008 1:58 PM PDT 0 recs

do you still have to go in and adjust the about:config

variables upon installation?

by sirbrianwilson on May 20, 2008 2:07 PM PDT 0 recs

Which ones?

The only one I had to touch was the one where the search bar automatically suggests based on what I’ve typed, but that’s purely a personal preference. I haven’t touched the “firefox tweaks” ones, if that’s what you’re referring to, and this thing still screams right along like the aforementioned PCP-laden t-rex.

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by pdb on May 20, 2008 2:14 PM PDT up 0 recs

yeah, i was talking about the tweaks. they really improved performance

of the previous releases. although, i’m currently using FF3…and for the last 5 minutes this thing appears to be insanely fast.

by sirbrianwilson on May 20, 2008 2:26 PM PDT up 0 recs

Yup, don't touch a thing

native FF3 blows the tweaked FF2 away.

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by pdb on May 20, 2008 2:28 PM PDT up 0 recs

what tweaks are you using for FF2?

... they are rumored to cause havoc in some situations, and this has been suggested as one reason FF2 tanks on long gamethreads. i’m going to guess http pipelining type stuff.

SBNation tech support guy... seriously!

by JP on May 20, 2008 5:09 PM PDT up 0 recs

i was talking about the pipelining tweaks.

although, the gamethreads took forever to load on every browser i tried (firefox, IE, safari)...whatever they did with FF3, i’m not complaining.

by sirbrianwilson on May 20, 2008 8:58 PM PDT up 0 recs

how do you disable the automatic suggestions? that's annoying.

by sirbrianwilson on May 20, 2008 4:05 PM PDT up 0 recs

in about:config

set browser.search.suggest.enabled to FALSE. Suggestions go bye-bye.

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by pdb on May 20, 2008 4:07 PM PDT up 0 recs

set it to false by double-clicking it, btw

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by pdb on May 20, 2008 4:08 PM PDT up 0 recs

thanks!

by sirbrianwilson on May 20, 2008 4:28 PM PDT up 0 recs

meh...just tried that and it still tries to recommend me sites.

i’ve tried clearing all private data and it still continues. any suggestions?

by sirbrianwilson on May 20, 2008 4:32 PM PDT up 0 recs

uh, no idea, sorry

it works fine on my version. Are you seeing suggestions in the search bar to the right of the urlbar? That’s what search.suggest.enabled controls, and the one to which I was referring…any other search bar may not be controlled by that pref…

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by pdb on May 20, 2008 4:37 PM PDT up 0 recs

ahh..i think we might be talking about different things.

i’m trying to disable the feature where it’ll bring up a drop down menu with sites in my bookmarks/history that are similar to what i’m typing.

for example: let’s say i want to go to “mail.yahoo.com”

when i type the “m” it’ll bring up things in my bookmarks/history that start with the letter m. then when i type “mail” it’ll bring up stuff like gmail, indiana university webmail, etc etc…

by sirbrianwilson on May 20, 2008 4:49 PM PDT up 0 recs

Ah yes, that's different.

To stop that, go to Tools/Options/Privacy and uncheck “remember what I enter in forms and the search bar”. It will then stop doing that.

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by pdb on May 20, 2008 9:34 PM PDT up 0 recs

it's been unchecked since installation.

it’s not a big deal though. the increase of speed makes me forget this issue.

by sirbrianwilson on May 20, 2008 10:07 PM PDT up 0 recs

Any reason why on one computer i can assign Baseball-reference.com as a toolbar search option

but on another I cant?

by Robert on May 20, 2008 2:48 PM PDT 0 recs

you could always just bookmark it

still needs more Bonds

by JI on May 20, 2008 2:54 PM PDT up 0 recs

quick search it morons.

by Matthew on May 20, 2008 3:04 PM PDT up 0 recs

it's so much easier to have it as an option in the default FF search engine

all of B-R’s glory is just a ctrl-k away.

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by pdb on May 20, 2008 3:05 PM PDT up 0 recs

that's a good option to

but I use quick search religiously.

baseball-reference, hardball times, fangraphs, baseball cube, espn, baseball prospects, rotoworld are all set up not to mention the various wikipedia, google, google image, etc

by Matthew on May 20, 2008 3:17 PM PDT up 0 recs

ctrl-k

Holy fuck!

What other shortcuts are there

by Robert on May 20, 2008 3:29 PM PDT up 0 recs

ctrl-l goes to the urlbar

ctrl-pgUp shifts focus one tab to the left
ctrl-pgDn shifts focus one tab to the right

there’s a bunch more here.

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by pdb on May 20, 2008 3:33 PM PDT up 0 recs

that's so 20th century

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by pdb on May 20, 2008 3:04 PM PDT up 0 recs

Just copy over your search engines from your existing FF

and they should work like a charm. They should live in a folder called “searchplugins” in your old FF directory, and copy/paste them into the same folder within the FF3 directory structure and it should work after a restart of FF. I have B-R as one of mine and it works fine.

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by pdb on May 20, 2008 3:04 PM PDT up 0 recs

I don't see a noticeable performance difference :(

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by I'm NOT Corco on May 20, 2008 3:08 PM PDT 0 recs

Same here.

I reject your reality and substitute my own!

Also, I'm always down for some online Grand Theft Auto IV or Rock Band. Gamertag: Phildopip

by Phildopip on May 20, 2008 3:08 PM PDT up 0 recs

In fact, Stumbleupon CRAWLS on the new version.

I reject your reality and substitute my own!

Also, I'm always down for some online Grand Theft Auto IV or Rock Band. Gamertag: Phildopip

by Phildopip on May 20, 2008 3:09 PM PDT up 0 recs

LL's huge gamethreads are faster, I'll give it that

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by I'm NOT Corco on May 20, 2008 3:09 PM PDT up 0 recs

I used to take years to load up massive threads

even with the browser being tricked out

now it takes a matter of seconds

still needs more Bonds

by JI on May 20, 2008 3:38 PM PDT up 0 recs

So holy crap RC1 is a memory hog.

Even more so than FF1 was. I hope they fix that by the time the stable version comes out.

Felix Hernandez may be The King, but Justin Upton is a GOD.

1998 Expansion Teams Reign Supreme!

by Goose on May 20, 2008 6:29 PM PDT 0 recs

Whoa..

Fast as a greased up deaf guy, and twice as funky. Not sure the modifications to the address bar, et al are necessary but it’s sure fascinating to play around with.

Fans are typically idiots.

by The Typical Idiot Fan on May 20, 2008 11:27 PM PDT 0 recs