Comments on Imposterrific - a blog by Jeff Scudder: Opera on the XO Laptop

I'm actually a big fan of Firefox 3. In my opinion...

2008-08-21T07:09:00.000-07:00

I'm actually a big fan of Firefox 3. In my opinion it's a big improvment on any platform except the XO with it's tight memory constraints.

Great point Andy, I guess since the source is all there for me to look at, I can profile it. Go open source!

Ben, yeah a more modular distribution would be nice. Perhaps the installer could include an "advanced" mode which lets you pick and choose features to create a stripped down Firefox lite ;-) Wouldn't want to complicate things though for the millions who want to just get on with it.

FF3 has some nice improvements from FF2, but also ...

2008-08-21T04:53:00.000-07:00

FF3 has some nice improvements from FF2, but also some random small issues/changes that are annoying (currently working a project that needs to support a web app on 6+ browsers).

I wish more software could be downloaded as a custom install. Plugin architectures are nice, but all I really want is a download page that features several options of the same software with various things included or left out. That way you can get the stripped down version or the all features version on the same page. I guess you can achieve most of the same stuff with plugins (e.g. Eclipse) but it doesn't feel the same.

I don't really know enough about the inner working...

2008-08-21T01:54:00.000-07:00

I don't really know enough about the inner workings of Firefox 3 versus Firefox 2 (and really, is there a single person who does?), but I would guess that the extra bells and whistles like the Awesomebar aren't helping Firefox 3 on the XO. Perhaps there are some debugging tricks that would allow one to see where the bottleneck is.