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"Deer Park" is the code-name for the upcoming 1.1 release of Mozilla Firefox. I tried it out for the first time this afternoon and am very much impressed with several features, mostly how quickly it starts up. On my system, it's starting at least 50% faster than previous versions.
A few more features have been added to the core tabbed browsing capabilities, which may well eliminate the need for tab extensions for many people. The options dialog has been revamped, and a handy, configurable "Sanitize" feature has been added to quickly clear all privacy-related data.
The problem at the moment is that not a lot of extensions work with it yet. It's just a matter of time until they're updated, of course, but in the meantime my list of extensions is only about one fourth what it normally is.
Because of the extension problems, I highly recommend that nobody install "Deer Park" over a previous Firefox version, and always start with a new profile. I've been through a couple new profiles this afternoon, myself, trying to work out a few extension-related issues. If you over-install and/or use your standard profile, you could easily wind up corrupting your whole installation.
From my testing, most of the regular Firefox tune-up tweaks will still work on this version. Enabling pipelining and disabling the referer header appear to give about the same speed increases as in previous versions.
This one will be a huge step forward for Firefox. Oh, and the download size has shrunk a bit, too. ;)
It will also be good to use a firefox that isn't so heavy. On those days when you're very busy, and all you want to do is open firefox, I tend to sometimes think twice for it lagging everything up.
Hopefully when set up to pipeline, it should be even faster - if it's lighter at least. I doubt it would be much of a noticable difference anyway.
It will also be good to use a firefox that isn't so heavy. On those days when you're very busy, and all you want to do is open firefox, I tend to sometimes think twice for it lagging everything up.
If there's anything that Firefox isn't, it's heavy. That said, it doesn't automatically get mostly loaded during system startup like IE does, so Fx may seem heavy on some systems by comparison. The next release is noticably improved on that score.
Hopefully when set up to pipeline, it should be even faster - if it's lighter at least. I doubt it would be much of a noticable difference anyway.
Think again [webmasterworld.com]! ;) Pipelining, though it does nothing to improve startup times, increases browsing speed by so much as to make a longer startup worth the wait. (Note that the thread referenced above is a few versions out of date; some settings no longer apply but all the major ones still do.)
And I have friends and work assosiates who say it is heavy too... Maybe it is just my system, but in comparison to IE and Opera, it is slower.
