Firefox 3.6.4

Yesterday I have updated to the latest version of Firefox, version 3.6.4 and actually I am amazed. I have been using Chrome for a while because of it's speed compared to Firefox. I must say that the latest version of Firefox now starts up almost as quickly as Chrome and the respond time is also superb, especially if you compare how many add-ons I have installed.

I looked at the memory usage and this has also become better, actually even with the large amount of add-ons Firefox uses around the same amoung of memory (on a fresh start) as Chrome.


I did have a same issue with our network/proxy. I know our company proxy needs authentication and I have always been struggling to get non microsoft applications to work. It loaded some pages and some it just would not load... crazy... after investigation of http traffic I got denied errors. The fix was easy:

Navigate to
about:config ->
network.automatic-ntlm-auth.allow-proxies -> true
network.negotiate-auth.allow-proxies -> false

Details at mozillazine.org

Great job for the Mozilla team!

Firebug 1.5 not expanding elements on inspect

Just installed Firebug 1.5 (after using 1.4.5 for a long time) and first thing I noticed was that the inspect element did not work correctly. After hovering on an element, the html tab did not show (or expand to) the element. Then I noticed that even manually expanding an element (by clicking on the + symbol) also did not work after 3 or 4 level deep.

After some googling, I finally out it was due to FireQuery. I was using version 0.3 and after updating to 0.5, all issues fixed.

I would also like to use the opportunity to thank the Firebug team and ofcourse FireQuery for their great tools!