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Firefox 1.0

VSarkiss on 2004-12-07T16:11:31

I finally got around to upgrading Firefox from 0.9.x to 1.0. Very nice.

Not only does it seem faster, but all the extensions I like were available as well. Most importantly, all my AdBlock entries came over without a hitch.

I don't think I would have upgraded if AdBlock wasn't available. I can't remember the last time I had to tolerate some stupid animated flash thingy on a web site. Gah.

I only use two other extensions (tabbrowser preferences and undoclosetab), but just for grins, I installed the ForecastFox extension as well, so I have little weather icons in my status bar.

no sessionsaver ?

tinman on 2004-12-07T17:48:31

I have both the extensions you mentioned, but if I had to pick another extension to install, I'd get sessionsaver in a heartbeat.

Saves a "session" of multiple tabs and reopens them.

tabs? sessions?

WebDragon on 2004-12-07T21:27:49

sounds to me like neither one of you has found tabbrowser extensions: http://piro.sakura.ne.jp/xul/_tabextensions.html.en

has everything you could possibly want to tweak about tabs and then some, including groups AND sessions. I reFUSE to run firefox without this. :)

the other nice extension I am really getting to love is webdeveloper: http://www.chrispederick.com/work/firefox/webdeveloper/

ahhh that's much better. :)

Re:tabs? sessions?

VSarkiss on 2004-12-08T01:57:02

Web developer is way overkill for me since I don't do web development. And the tabbrowser extensions were also over the top.

Not that there's anything wrong with them. They're just not useful to me.

Re:tabs? sessions?

tinman on 2004-12-08T13:11:11

I used tab browser extensions all the time... upto 0.9

Then I realized it was overkill and slowed down the entire browser significantly. Figured that tab reordering and groups were neat, but the only thing I really wanted was a session saver :) FF is a lot more responsive without TBE, actually. To be fair, it's been a few months, so things might be different now.

WebDev and Venkman are the two extensions that I can't live without when I do webby stuff. They're not for all users, tho :)

Re:tabs? sessions?

WebDragon on 2004-12-08T16:30:21

I've never noticed any significant slowdown here, myself, but I'm sure it's possible.

http://www.flashforum.de/forum/showthread.php?t=149915 has a nifty trick for improving the speed of firefox browsing. Just pay attention to the english parts.

Myself I like the fine-grained control over when and where tabs are launched, given by this extension, as well as the session control.