This is a screenshot from Ubuntu’s Firefox:
I just downloaded Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx and took a screenshot.
Perhaps those icons look too modern to me but I can’t associate it to the content without reading the words on the right of the icon.
Addons.Mozilla.org is currently using CakePHP but they will no longer in 2010. They decided to adopt Django. (Source: Micropipes.com)
Firefox’s address bar, also known as the Awesome Bar, stores all sorts of awesome information in a SQLite database. The SQLite database slowly starts getting fragments and the Awesome Bar just isn’t as awesome if it gets all laggy. To solve this, you can vacuum the SQLite database that Awesome Bar used.
Go to Tools, then Error Console. And copy the following:
Components.classes[ "@mozilla.org/browser/nav-history-service;1" ].getService( Components.interfaces.nsPIPlacesDatabase ).DBConnection.executeSimpleSQL( "VACUUM" );
And paste and click on Evaluate:
Vaccuming Firefox in Error Console
The browser probably freezes for a few seconds and the address bar feels faster.
[via MozillaLinks]
Let’s face it, Firefox isn’t exactly the fastest browser around. In Linux it’s worse, in fact, Windows Firefox through Wine in Linux is faster than Linux Firefox.
Tuxradar benchmark Firefox 3.5 Beta 4′s performance and the results are very optimistic.
I use Firefox and Opera in Ubuntu and I prefer Opera in terms of speed but it just never felt quite like a native application in Ubuntu. Firefox just doesn’t appear as responsive sometimes.
I never regret getting an additional 2 Gb for my memory, the improvement is significant and it delights me when applications launches quicker. I noticed the improved performance in applications such as Firefox and Photoshop. There’s a slight improvement in iTunes too I think, yes, that piece of crap.
The difference is less obvious in Windows 7 which already is pretty quick.
Here’s a screenshot of a website for Windows XP:
(Trojan in Windows XP.)
There is an animation of a Windows scanning utility discovering lots of trojan, an anti-spyware tool would be offered at the end. It tricks users into install something that they claim secure.
Here’s the same website in Ubuntu with the same animation:
(Trojan in Ubuntu.)
The screenshot would probably look realistic to a naive Windows XP user. And when you install the additional checking tool, who knows, you may end up with a virus.
I tried installing it in Ubuntu and couldn’t. Me sad.
[Thanks Irene for showing me the site.]
BUT it doesn’t work well in my browser. I couldn’t reply, I couldn’t get back to the inbox once I click on a message. The whole thing is just a disaster for me and I don’t know how to change it back. Seems like Microsoft is pushing this update batch by batch to their users.
Here’s a screenshot of the new interface:
(Microsoft Windows Live Hotmail does not play well with Firefox.)
Of course, it worked for Internet Explorer but…
Anyhow, I should note that I do like the cleaner design. The new calendar is better too. And the contacts. Everything’s better… if and only if it works.
[By the way, there is still a huge wide advertisement slapped above the mail interface. I just crop it away because it is an advertisement.]