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"Chrome doesn't play nice with SSDs without tweaking, therefore I don't use Chrome on my computer with an SSD."

Plays nice for me without tweaks.

6/21/2011 7:23:17 PM

^^I was sure there was an official thread about Firefox, but once again, I was looking through the threads and didn't find one in the past few months that seemed germane so I made a new one

I'm thinking it's because the threads were sorted by start date and the official thread was started back in '08

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"FF 4 just came out not too long ago, and I just got the pop-up today asking me to go to 5."

Firefox has moved to a faster release schedule: http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2382205,00.asp

6/21/2011 7:40:33 PM

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"I use chrome on a number of computers with SSDs and it runs fine. Whats the exact issue?"

Unless you create symlinks (or configure your launch shortcut), you're writing your temporary internet files to a disk that has a limited amount of write/erase cycles.

Now, granted it's a pretty obscene number and it's highly unlikely that your web browsing alone will kill it, but I'd still prefer to minimize writes on the off-chance.

6/21/2011 7:48:31 PM

My SSD is the only drive in my home computer. It'll probably be fine.

6/21/2011 10:25:30 PM

i've become addicted to my many firefox addons (the most likely source of the high memory footprint)...i could do without some, but i haven't found the chrome-compatible extensions to replace firefox completely

6/22/2011 11:08:34 AM

which ones are missing from chrome?

6/22/2011 12:06:20 PM

new feature- when i close multiple tabs, there's a stutter/lag before the tabs resize.

6/22/2011 2:23:55 PM

firefox 6 beta is noticeably faster than ff5

that could be because 6 of my add-ons don't work, though

7/11/2011 8:56:32 PM

Standby for Firefox 7 ... and this is why we don't name threads with version numbers.

7/11/2011 10:40:33 PM

this thread was intended to be temporary

7/12/2011 12:24:45 AM

oh, i've tried 7...it's no 8, but i'm sticking with 6 for a while

7/12/2011 8:17:16 AM