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Fri, 08 May 2009 20:14:11 +0000

[...] a taste of what might be coming in future versions, one addon worth installing is Shawn Wilsher’s Asynchronous Location Bar Searches.Mozilla’s thinking is that Firefox will never be fast enough, and this addon takes aim at improving [...]

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By: scratch

scratch — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 22:36:19 +0000

it’s much faster than the default, but it also seems to make memory use go crazy. i saw firefox hit 1gb of memory for the first time ever.

By: Archaeopteryx

Archaeopteryx — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 02:27:23 +0000

Search for “this page isn’t in my history yay”

3.2a1pre latest, Windows XP 32bit:
Your build: 45 seconds
normal build: 175 seconds

machine: 1.8 GHz intel centrino slowed down to 600 MHz, 1 GB RAM
history: ~41,000
bookmarks: maybe 7,000

By: Shawn Wilsher

Shawn Wilsher — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 01:35:54 +0000

@pantsgolem
I forgot to update the install.rdf, so it thinks it is 0.13. I might be able to fix this tonight.

By: pantsgolem

pantsgolem — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 23:21:45 +0000

I am using 0.12 and I experience that problem occasionally, but not always.

Also, Firefox keeps telling me there’s an 0.13 to update to, but whatever it installs just appears to be 0.12 again, which means Firefox still thinks I need to update to 0.13.

By: Shawn Wilsher

Shawn Wilsher — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 20:51:13 +0000

@Henrik
Update the add-on if you are not on v0.12 please (and let me know what version you are on in general)

By: Henrik

Henrik — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 17:53:59 +0000

Using your add-on and pressing enter after entering an url Firefox get stuck. It takes about 15-20s until the page gets loaded. That’s really annoying. Sorry, but have to disable the add-on for now.

By: Bryce

Bryce — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 07:40:24 +0000

I have done a little more testing coupled with careful observation.

It seems a usual thing now for the first couple of characters I type to cause the Awesome Bar to jitter up and down like a much more fresh install (good behavior) but, after a few more characters, CPU time heads up toward 100%. Sometimes it stays there and I have to kill Firefox but it more-than-often goes back down.