No, I'm not, actually. Just your standard, Dell-issued laptop drive.
I noticed better memory usage and general performance increases within the last few releases to the beta channel (sorry, I can't pinpoint which one it was). I started to use FF again a few months ago, and found I still needed to restart the browser at least once a day to keep things responsive (and I don't usually have more than a dozen tabs open). Then, after one of the updates, I didn't need to do that, and I didn't notice any performance degradation over the course of several days.
Re:Mozilla's Gary Kovacs to step down as CEO
by hollerith on Wednesday April 10, 2013 @09:45PM
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Thanks. I'll try the beta channel.
Re:Mozilla's Gary Kovacs to step down as CEO
by btipling on Wednesday April 10, 2013 @04:46PM
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It's more than performance, they've also picked up must have features like opening up just closed tabs (cmd+shift+t), and cmd+9 to go to last tab, private windows (used to be all of firefox went private), quick updates.
Re:Mozilla's Gary Kovacs to step down as CEO
by mirzmaster on Wednesday April 10, 2013 @05:17PM
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Reopening a closed tab via Ctrl/Cmd+Shift+T has been a longtime feature of Firefox, since at least early 2007.
Re:Mozilla's Gary Kovacs to step down as CEO
by btipling on Wednesday April 10, 2013 @06:09PM
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Oh, whoops. Thanks for correcting me!
Re:Mozilla's Gary Kovacs to step down as CEO
by hollerith on Wednesday April 10, 2013 @04:58PM
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The "Recently Closed Tabs" menu item (under "History") has been in FF since version 11 or before.
Re:Mozilla's Gary Kovacs to step down as CEO
by hollerith on Friday April 12, 2013 @07:34AM
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A few hours after I wrote this, my FF updated itself (to version 20.0) and became much, much more responsive!
Re:Mozilla's Gary Kovacs to step down as CEO
by jimmaswell on Thursday April 11, 2013 @06:36AM
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Tr changing some disk-related settings in about:config.
added: my reason for asking is that I run FF (release update channel) and I genuinely wonder whether it would be more responsive if it weren't for my slow hard drive. (in particular, I am hypothesizing that every time I visit a new page, its URL gets committed to disk.) was not trying to slam FF; please don't downvote me!