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Maybe they should stop wasting time on such useless things and start concentrating on making Firefox boot faster.]]>Oct 14th 2009 4:14AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/14/firefox-3-6-will-support-accelerometers-make-the-internet-seasi/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/14/firefox-3-6-will-support-accelerometers-make-the-internet-seasi/
May in fact be an add-on / plug-in.]]>Oct 14th 2009 4:19AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/14/firefox-3-6-will-support-accelerometers-make-the-internet-seasi/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/14/firefox-3-6-will-support-accelerometers-make-the-internet-seasi/
Firefox is such a memory hog. Slim it down please.]]>Oct 14th 2009 4:40AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/14/firefox-3-6-will-support-accelerometers-make-the-internet-seasi/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/14/firefox-3-6-will-support-accelerometers-make-the-internet-seasi/
If you want the faster browser, I doubt firefox will ever be your best option.

One option might be to have firefox start automatically. ]]>Oct 14th 2009 4:41AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/14/firefox-3-6-will-support-accelerometers-make-the-internet-seasi/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/14/firefox-3-6-will-support-accelerometers-make-the-internet-seasi/Oct 14th 2009 5:18AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/14/firefox-3-6-will-support-accelerometers-make-the-internet-seasi/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/14/firefox-3-6-will-support-accelerometers-make-the-internet-seasi/
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Besides, this nonsense will only make people feel dizzy after a few seconds, especially the "skewing" of the tables etc...

But yeah, if it gives any Mac "evangelist" a boner, by all means. I just need a slimmer, faster FF without all this nonsense that I'll turn off anyways.

Besides, I don't live on a boat, so...]]>Oct 14th 2009 6:43AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/14/firefox-3-6-will-support-accelerometers-make-the-internet-seasi/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/14/firefox-3-6-will-support-accelerometers-make-the-internet-seasi/
The fact that we want Mozilla to work on Firefox's boot speed and memory usage simply means that we are using Firefox right now. :P

Then again, I shouldn't be surprised to see a comment like that from someone named Steve.]]>Oct 14th 2009 6:58AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/14/firefox-3-6-will-support-accelerometers-make-the-internet-seasi/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/14/firefox-3-6-will-support-accelerometers-make-the-internet-seasi/
It's so easy to bitch about things like that, but after all, firefox is free. You do not have to use it. It's really an amazing product for the price, and this is a cool OPTION that probably won't ever see the light of day, but is very interesting. It's good that someone is thinking about options like this. It is not the reason firefox is slower than you wish it were.

I think yours is a ludicrous comment. You call them names, say this is useless, and claim they have not concentrated on making their browser efficient. Sounds like FUD to me, but maybe you're just not very nice.

There are indeed many reasons why this would be useful to SOME people. I know my laptop already supports flipping and rotating the image, because it's a tablet. You are not the only computer user, and your needs are not the most important ones. For more firefox users, it's fast and efficient and effective, by the way.

If you really want to help firefox make their system more efficient, like I said, do so. If you want to step up and try to offer a better product, please do. But it's lame that so many people think it's helpful to bash creativity, when all they offer is insults. Look at your record for making comments. Lots and lots and LOTS of whining. You call others 'dickwad' 'screw ups' 'sell outs'. You aren't by any means alone, but you are a one man machine of useless criticism.

No shit it would be nice if Firefox were faster. But this is a nice idea that is useful if you are creative enough to consider the implications. And even if it's not put to direct use, lessons are learned when new things are tried which could go towards advancements in many areas (including speed, I guess).

So I strongly disagree with your views and your attitude. This is a cool idea.]]>Oct 14th 2009 7:39AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/14/firefox-3-6-will-support-accelerometers-make-the-internet-seasi/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/14/firefox-3-6-will-support-accelerometers-make-the-internet-seasi/"Then again, I shouldn't be surprised to see a comment like that from someone named Steve."

nope, i'm really surprised if it comes from Steve Ballmer!









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If you think that Mozilla doesn't care about making Firefox faster, you might be excited to hear that Mozilla recently achieved a whopping 27.8% speed increase in cold startup time on Windows XP. For more details, see http://autonome.wordpress.com/2009/10/12/firefox-startup-performance-weekly-summary-5/ and http://www.betanews.com/article/Expect-228-performance-boost-from-next-weeks-Firefox-36-beta/1255120768

Regarding Firefox being a memory hog, that's just not true. In fact, Firefox with 7 tabs open (a very common use case) uses less memory than Chrome in the same situation. See http://dotnetperls.com/chrome-memory
]]>Oct 14th 2009 7:55AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/14/firefox-3-6-will-support-accelerometers-make-the-internet-seasi/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/14/firefox-3-6-will-support-accelerometers-make-the-internet-seasi/
Touché! My bad. LOL. :))

@the lowest ranked commenter

blah.]]>Oct 14th 2009 8:44AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/14/firefox-3-6-will-support-accelerometers-make-the-internet-seasi/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/14/firefox-3-6-will-support-accelerometers-make-the-internet-seasi/I can't imagine this took very long to do. They already had the base code from Fennec, just copy+paste and make a few edits for full rotation and hardware recognition.]]>Oct 14th 2009 2:44PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/14/firefox-3-6-will-support-accelerometers-make-the-internet-seasi/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/14/firefox-3-6-will-support-accelerometers-make-the-internet-seasi/Oct 14th 2009 8:05PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/14/firefox-3-6-will-support-accelerometers-make-the-internet-seasi/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/14/firefox-3-6-will-support-accelerometers-make-the-internet-seasi/Oct 14th 2009 4:06AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/14/firefox-3-6-will-support-accelerometers-make-the-internet-seasi/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/14/firefox-3-6-will-support-accelerometers-make-the-internet-seasi/Oct 14th 2009 4:11AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/14/firefox-3-6-will-support-accelerometers-make-the-internet-seasi/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/14/firefox-3-6-will-support-accelerometers-make-the-internet-seasi/Oct 14th 2009 4:14AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/14/firefox-3-6-will-support-accelerometers-make-the-internet-seasi/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/14/firefox-3-6-will-support-accelerometers-make-the-internet-seasi/Oct 14th 2009 4:15AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/14/firefox-3-6-will-support-accelerometers-make-the-internet-seasi/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/14/firefox-3-6-will-support-accelerometers-make-the-internet-seasi/Oct 14th 2009 4:36AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/14/firefox-3-6-will-support-accelerometers-make-the-internet-seasi/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/14/firefox-3-6-will-support-accelerometers-make-the-internet-seasi/Oct 14th 2009 5:03AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/14/firefox-3-6-will-support-accelerometers-make-the-internet-seasi/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/14/firefox-3-6-will-support-accelerometers-make-the-internet-seasi/Oct 14th 2009 5:04AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/14/firefox-3-6-will-support-accelerometers-make-the-internet-seasi/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/14/firefox-3-6-will-support-accelerometers-make-the-internet-seasi/This is extremely awesome from a developers stand point.]]>Oct 14th 2009 8:40AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/14/firefox-3-6-will-support-accelerometers-make-the-internet-seasi/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/14/firefox-3-6-will-support-accelerometers-make-the-internet-seasi/Oct 14th 2009 4:05AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/14/firefox-3-6-will-support-accelerometers-make-the-internet-seasi/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/14/firefox-3-6-will-support-accelerometers-make-the-internet-seasi/Oct 14th 2009 8:17AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/14/firefox-3-6-will-support-accelerometers-make-the-internet-seasi/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/14/firefox-3-6-will-support-accelerometers-make-the-internet-seasi/Oct 14th 2009 9:27AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/14/firefox-3-6-will-support-accelerometers-make-the-internet-seasi/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/14/firefox-3-6-will-support-accelerometers-make-the-internet-seasi/Oct 14th 2009 5:11PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/14/firefox-3-6-will-support-accelerometers-make-the-internet-seasi/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/14/firefox-3-6-will-support-accelerometers-make-the-internet-seasi/Oct 14th 2009 4:06AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/14/firefox-3-6-will-support-accelerometers-make-the-internet-seasi/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/14/firefox-3-6-will-support-accelerometers-make-the-internet-seasi/
I ended up installing SBS Settings and disabling it...i was sick of lying in bed and the phone "helpfully" rotating. Not to mention the music program rotating to cover flow when i didnt want it to.

Im sure you can guess what phone it is :-P

Anyway this is TOTALLY pointless. Since when do i need to hold my laptop on its side or upside down?]]>Oct 14th 2009 4:11AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/14/firefox-3-6-will-support-accelerometers-make-the-internet-seasi/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/14/firefox-3-6-will-support-accelerometers-make-the-internet-seasi/
I realize that everyone is an expert here, and no matter what the tech is, someone is complaining that it's horrible... but this is just good fun.

You should be able to turn off your accelerometer rotating your screen... if not, that's totally weak. Of course, the problem that will plague this is that if your laptop is randoming swaying... so is the person looking at the laptop. But it still sounds pretty nifty.

I love firefox because it's so easy to customize. That's how they will keep their users.]]>Oct 14th 2009 4:15AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/14/firefox-3-6-will-support-accelerometers-make-the-internet-seasi/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/14/firefox-3-6-will-support-accelerometers-make-the-internet-seasi/Oct 14th 2009 8:52AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/14/firefox-3-6-will-support-accelerometers-make-the-internet-seasi/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/14/firefox-3-6-will-support-accelerometers-make-the-internet-seasi/Oct 15th 2009 2:27AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/14/firefox-3-6-will-support-accelerometers-make-the-internet-seasi/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/14/firefox-3-6-will-support-accelerometers-make-the-internet-seasi/Oct 14th 2009 5:50PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/14/firefox-3-6-will-support-accelerometers-make-the-internet-seasi/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/14/firefox-3-6-will-support-accelerometers-make-the-internet-seasi/]]>Oct 14th 2009 4:22AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/14/firefox-3-6-will-support-accelerometers-make-the-internet-seasi/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/14/firefox-3-6-will-support-accelerometers-make-the-internet-seasi/Oct 14th 2009 4:30AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/14/firefox-3-6-will-support-accelerometers-make-the-internet-seasi/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/14/firefox-3-6-will-support-accelerometers-make-the-internet-seasi/Oct 14th 2009 8:34AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/14/firefox-3-6-will-support-accelerometers-make-the-internet-seasi/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/14/firefox-3-6-will-support-accelerometers-make-the-internet-seasi/Oct 14th 2009 9:22PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/14/firefox-3-6-will-support-accelerometers-make-the-internet-seasi/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/14/firefox-3-6-will-support-accelerometers-make-the-internet-seasi/Oct 14th 2009 4:30AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/14/firefox-3-6-will-support-accelerometers-make-the-internet-seasi/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/14/firefox-3-6-will-support-accelerometers-make-the-internet-seasi/Oct 14th 2009 8:34AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/14/firefox-3-6-will-support-accelerometers-make-the-internet-seasi/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/14/firefox-3-6-will-support-accelerometers-make-the-internet-seasi/lighten up dude, I wasn't saying it cant do more than "2 things simultaneously" i was saying i wish it didn't tax my system mem. as much as it currently does and i fail to see the productivity in flipping your laptop sideways to view webpages. That's all i was saying.]]>Oct 16th 2009 9:31PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/14/firefox-3-6-will-support-accelerometers-make-the-internet-seasi/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/14/firefox-3-6-will-support-accelerometers-make-the-internet-seasi/Oct 14th 2009 4:32AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/14/firefox-3-6-will-support-accelerometers-make-the-internet-seasi/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/14/firefox-3-6-will-support-accelerometers-make-the-internet-seasi/Oct 15th 2009 2:29AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/14/firefox-3-6-will-support-accelerometers-make-the-internet-seasi/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/14/firefox-3-6-will-support-accelerometers-make-the-internet-seasi/Useless but nerds can make their browser faster by just disabling things like that and laugh on people with fast computers loading slower than their old Desktop. Love it.]]>Oct 14th 2009 4:42AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/14/firefox-3-6-will-support-accelerometers-make-the-internet-seasi/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/14/firefox-3-6-will-support-accelerometers-make-the-internet-seasi/Oct 14th 2009 4:44AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/14/firefox-3-6-will-support-accelerometers-make-the-internet-seasi/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/14/firefox-3-6-will-support-accelerometers-make-the-internet-seasi/When will someone pick up a laptop and just be like

"Oh my goodness! I have to turn my laptop on it's side. Thankfully my Firefox has an add on that will rotate the browser content so I won't have to contort my body"]]>Oct 14th 2009 4:53AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/14/firefox-3-6-will-support-accelerometers-make-the-internet-seasi/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/14/firefox-3-6-will-support-accelerometers-make-the-internet-seasi/
As for people saying its fun, its fun for 10-15 mins, not that u will be running motion games in firefox with a laptop eh!???

The Macbook Pro has an accelerometer to detect accidental laptop falls in which case to minimise the damage, it wasn't meant for people at FF to build a competitive advantage in browser wars!]]>Oct 14th 2009 5:28AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/14/firefox-3-6-will-support-accelerometers-make-the-internet-seasi/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/14/firefox-3-6-will-support-accelerometers-make-the-internet-seasi/Oct 14th 2009 6:22AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/14/firefox-3-6-will-support-accelerometers-make-the-internet-seasi/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/14/firefox-3-6-will-support-accelerometers-make-the-internet-seasi/Oct 14th 2009 8:04PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/14/firefox-3-6-will-support-accelerometers-make-the-internet-seasi/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/14/firefox-3-6-will-support-accelerometers-make-the-internet-seasi/Oct 14th 2009 6:25AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/14/firefox-3-6-will-support-accelerometers-make-the-internet-seasi/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/14/firefox-3-6-will-support-accelerometers-make-the-internet-seasi/Oct 14th 2009 10:04AM