Theju's tryst with life

Rendevouz with Firefox 3 beta 2

I have been using Firefox2 for quite a long time and had a hell lot of complaints about it. One was with its memory hogging nature and the other one was with its rendering capabilities.

I decided to try on Firefox 3 (beta 2) after hearing some rave reviews and here is my observation (not a research though). Firefox 3 has slimmed down to look svelte. To test it, I left the browser on for 18 hours without closing it for one second and I periodically kept loading gmail and digg through a python script (that used the webbrowser module). The browser survived and I noticed after the test that it had eaten only 76 MB of my memory. Not bad from what I have seen from Firefox2. Another joyful news is that Firefox 3 (beta 2) passes the Acid2 test.

Here's a proof to that.

An impact of passing the Acid2 test.

Currently most plugins and extensions don't work properly but the browser is still in development and I am sure by the time the browser is released all such minor issues would be sorted out.

Well done Firefox devs!!!

Top 5 Firefox Extensions

I am a part-time webdesigner and developer and here are the top 5 Firefox extensions in my list (ordered according to rank).

1. Firebug: A must for every webdesigner. For beginners, there is Aardvark
2. Webdeveloper: Another must for webdesigners.
3. Greasemonkey: A cool addon that can be used to jazz up sites locally, scrap all your friends in a jiffy in Orkut and also to download Youtube videos...This is just a small description, Greasemonkey has more utilities. Check out Userscripts.
4. del.icio.us Bookmarks: del.icio.us is an online bookmarking site and this is their cool addon. Also the bookmarks move where ever you go.
5. Chatzilla: Don't have to chat on the IRC from outside your browser!!!

If any IE users are reading this blog, switch to Firefox and become productive effortlessly.