Enhancing Your Post Whore Skills With Mozilla Firefox

[FLiPMaRC]

Glenn = FireFox God




It actually worked out better than I thought. It erased everything I'm in the process of moving everything to a new computer.

[QiG]

Here's what I'm looking for:
I frequent a message board that shows links as just plain text. I'm hoping that there is some add-on or feature that allows you to highlight the plain text and then right click and have an option to open the link in a new tab... is that existent or possible at all?

[FLiPMaRC]

Glenn, do you know of any good multi website video downloader script for greasemonkey?

[Glenn]

Originally Posted by FLiPMaRC

Glenn, do you know of any good multi website video downloader script for greasemonkey?

I use this bookmarklet, the few times I actually wanted to download a video...

[FLiPMaRC]

FF 3 Beta News: Releaselog | RLSLOG.net » Firefox 3.0 leaves IE7 behind in memory usage

Mozilla tested Firefox 3.0 Beta 4, Firefox 2.0 and Internet Explorer 7 in terms of memory usage and the conclusion favors the last iteration of the open source browser over its predecessor, but also over the proprietary Microsoft product. The Redmond company, following the release of IE7, acknowledged the existence of problems related to memory leaks and with websites remaining opened for large periods of time in the browser. The scenario is illustrative of the high memory usage issues that have plagued Internet Explorer 7.

In this context, it shouldn’t come as a surprise that Mozilla, after testing the memory usage of Firefox 2.0, IE7 and Firefox 3.0 Beta 4, has come to the conclusion that the latest development milestone for version 3.0 of its open source browser delivers superior memory handling capabilities compared to its alternatives. In a test performed by Stuart Parmenter, a Software Engineer working at Mozilla Corporation, the memory usage of Firefox 3.0 Beta 4 is stabilized under 100 MB, while Internet Explorer 7 uses five times as much approaching 500 MB.

“All browsers increase in memory use slightly over time, but the Firefox 3 slope is closer to 0. The _peak_ of Firefox 3 is lower than the terminal size of Firefox 2! The terminal state of Firefox 3 is nearly 140MB smaller than Firefox 2. 60% less memory! IE7 doesn’t appear to give any memory back, even after all the windows are closed! Firefox 3 ends up about 400mb smaller than IE7 at the end of the test,” stated Parmenter.



And performance is one of the areas where Microsoft acknowledged the fact that IE7 is inferior to Firefox 3.0. During the keynote address delivered at MIX08 in the first week of March by Dean Hachamovitch, General Manager Internet Explorer, a graphic comparing IE7, IE8 Beta 1, Firefox 3.0 Beta 3 and Safari 3 Beta, clearly showed that Internet Explorer 7 was lagging in terms of performance behind rival browsers. However, while Mozilla said nothing about IE8, Hachamovitch stated that the performances were almost the same as Firefox 3.0 Beta 3. But as far as IE7 is concerned, there is no comparison with Firefox 3.0 Beta 3.

“Our work has paid off. We’re significantly smaller than previous versions of Firefox and other browsers. You can keep the browser open for much longer using much less memory. Extensions are much less likely to cause leaks. We’ve got automated tools in place to detect leaks that might result from new code. We’re always monitoring and testing to make sure we’re moving in the right direction. All of this has been done while dramatically improving performance.”

[TE]

Just an FYI.Do not install a newer version of DTA higher then .999
1 and higher screws your overall connectivity speed alot. Took me a while to find the culprit

[Bitter]

anyone here use the bbcode addon?

[Glenn]

Originally Posted by Bitter

anyone here use the bbcode addon?

Originally Posted by Glenn

BBCode
Add context menu (right-click) for common BBCode actions (for use in most forums). You can use it to perform actions like make selection bold, italic, underline, size, color, insert img, insert url, make selection url, paste quote, etc.

[Bitter]

[Glenn]

Originally Posted by Bitter

Did you have an actual question beyond, "is anyone using it"?

[Bitter]

Originally Posted by Glenn

Did you have an actual question beyond, "is anyone using it"?

sort of? how do i change the order of the stuff in its menus? i'd like image ontop and quote below it.

[Glenn]

Originally Posted by Bitter

sort of? how do i change the order of the stuff in its menus? i'd like image ontop and quote below it.

There no setting for it in the UI, so I guess you can't.

[TE]

Can I stop ONE program in particular from checking for auto updates?

[Glenn]

Originally Posted by TE

Can I stop ONE program in particular from checking for auto updates?

I haven't heard of anything like that. I'll see if I can find anything on it. For now, I guess you'll just have to keep skipping the update.

[Glenn]

You're having problems with DownThemAll, right? Did you install version 1.0 or version 1.0.1? 'Cause according to their changelog, 1.0.1 is supposed to have fixed the network issues:

Major bugfixes

• Reverting to 0.9.x behavior for network.max.connections manipulation to accommodate users reporting slow-downs (See notes; #613)