I’ve been using Firefox 1.5 alongside Safari for some time now on my Mac. I have about 10 different extensions running, and I like it. It can do things no other browsers can, because of the extensions. The look isn’t quite like other Mac applications, but I’ve gotten used to it and I like it as something different.
Firefox 2.0 is out and support for 1.5 will not last much longer. If I switch, what happens to my bookmarks and extensions? Do I have to loed them again or do they carry over?
One issue is that of resources. Firefox 1.5 has been pretty good on memory, but it uses up a whole lot of my CPU capacity. Is Firefox 2 any better or worse in these respects?
I haven’t noticed any real problems with Firefox 2. All the extensions I use (and I use quite a lot) all work fine. It looks better on the Mac than it does in Windows, by the way.
It crashed, threw up “talkback” which also crashed and ever since it’s refused to run without my manually trashing its application support files. Every time I want to run it.
I’ve tried deleting everything associated with that program I can think of and reinstalling but it still does it. Whatever it screwed up on my computer, it screwed it up good.
No thanks. Feels too much like a Windows program.
Mine’s working gloriously (2.0.0.4)-- all the bookmarks and such transfered over, and all of the extensions I’ve been using are updated. The last pre-0-0-0-0-4 version did crash a bit but seems to be much stabler now.
No idea about CPU usage. . . looks like it’s asleep when I’m not doing anything but jumps to the 30s and higher when it’s running a process like opening a new page. Between 5 and 20 while I’m typing. I’ve no idea if I’m even reading that right and I don’t know what it all means.
It seemed to work fine for the brief time I used it (MacBook Pro DuoCore 2.16GH). I’m on Safari 3 Public Beta now – Safari 3 is completely awesome for the computers whose applications it doesn’t fry. I definitely recommend giving it a try – just be sure to read through the support threads on apple.com first to get the instructions on how to restore Cocoa, then you won’t risk anything.
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