Firebird Discussion

[NetRyder]

Perris: Look for "network" on the about:config page. It looks like this:

If you still don't see them, go to your profile directory, and create a new file called "user.js", then add the lines into that file, and save it.

 

[Perris Calderon]

have you tried this netryder?

 

[NetRyder]

Yes, it's one of those tweaks that I enabled right after I installed Firebird.
I'm told it does make a difference, but I've barely noticed, probably since the difference is just a fraction of a second on a good broadband connection. I haven't tried it on anything less than a 3mbit line (and now on a 24mbit connection)

 

[gonaads]

I'm using those settings in Firebird and it does seem to "feel" faster.

*goes back to surfin pr0n*

 

[lynchknot]

Wow! thanks. There are several hundred icons on this website and you can watch them load one by one. It would take well over 30 seconds to load all images. Since I modified About: config, they load much more quickly: http://developer.ximian.com/themes/icons/ooo-icons.html

 

[gonaads]

Noooooooo shit... that loaded pretty quickly.

 

[Perris Calderon]

seems to me like one of you mozilla gurus can figur out a tweak so that importing ie favorites does not invert them

when I'm in power surf, I have to switch back to ie, and I don't havbe the time to re organize the mozilla bookmarks

 

[muzikool]

Originally posted by gonaads
Noooooooo $h!t... that loaded pretty quickly.

Yeah, that did make a bit of difference. I'll take any increase in speed, even if it's a small one!

 

[X-Istence]

Any increase in speed is good.

 

[SPeedY_B]

Anyone else noticing that the newer builds (Using 20031007 at the moment, which I think is 0.7-RC1) are sluggish?
I only have this page open at the moment, and it's taking 66,908KB of memory

 

[Vector_One]

Yes. I've noticed that. I'm still using the oct 1 build because of it. Plus TBE crashes the browser in the newer nightlies.

And I've also noticed a steady climb in memory usage with each new nightly. I seem to remember a few months ago, FB was using about half the RAM it is now.

 

[NetRyder]

Yeah, my 20031008 build is using almost 45 megs right now.

 

[Kevin Ar18]

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[LeeJend]

Interesting test site:

http://developer.ximian.com/themes/icons/ooo-icons.html

ADSL 1500/128 kbps results:

IE XPSP2 -1633
5 seconds to connect, 24 seconds to load

Netscape 4.77
7 seconds to connect, 26 seconds to load

Anyone actually clock the load for moz or fire?

 

[NetRyder]

Firebird 0.7 is expected to be released early next week.
For those that have been using the milestone 0.6.1 build rather than the nightlies, here is a summary of major changes from 0.6.1 to 0.7

* Advanced preferences panel
* Download/helper apps preferences panel
* Cookie whitelisting (through the new Cookie Exceptions window)
* New password manager
* Web panels (like Mozilla's sidebar panels)
* Alternate stylesheet support (through a status bar button)
* Close other tabs (tab context menu)
* Domain is shown for image blocking (image context menu)
* Send Page, Send Link, Send Image (various context menus)

 

[SPeedY_B]

* Send Page, Send Link, Send Image (various context menus)

That's so annoying when you mistakenly click it instead of save image.

 

[X-Istence]

Originally posted by LeeJend
Interesting test site:

http://developer.ximian.com/themes/icons/ooo-icons.html

ADSL 1500/128 kbps results:

IE XPSP2 -1633
5 seconds to connect, 24 seconds to load

Netscape 4.77
7 seconds to connect, 26 seconds to load

Anyone actually clock the load for moz or fire?

10 Mbit down, 1 Mbit up cable:

IE XPSP1:

2 seconds to connect, 15 seconds to load

FireBird:

1 second to connect, 13 seconds to load

Mozilla suite:

2 seconds to connect, 14 seconds to load

netscape:

3 seconds to connect, 14 seconds to load

Its pretty darn close here.

 

[NetRyder]

Just a tip for those using the nightlies with cookie whitelisting enabled:

There are only certain sites that I visit that really need to store persistent cookies on my computer (for example, NTFS stores my login info so that I don't need to login everytime I visit the page).

So what I do is add only the sites I want to the cookie whitelist (Tools>Options>Privacy>Cookies>Exceptions; enter the domain, and select "Allow")

I then check "Enable cookies," "For the originating website only," and "For the current session only"
This basically accepts cookies if any sites require them, but clears them all out (except for the whitelisted ones) when you close the browser window.
No more annoyingly useless, spyware-ridden ad-cookies...a small whitelist of "good" sites is better than a huge blacklist of "bad" domains, in my opinion.

 

[SPeedY_B]

Oooooh, nice. will look into that once FB is stable again (Using Mozilla 1.5 at the moment, takes less memory *runs away* )

 

[NetRyder]

Yeah, I don't find blacklists to be very efficient in any situation...cookies or email spam, since the list of "bad" domains just grows everyday. Bayesian filtering replaced email blacklists for me, and now cookie whitelisting is a god-send