If nothing else, we humans are good at pushing the limits of common sense just to see what will happen. Installing a ridiculous number of add-ons (and taking pictures, of course) has long been a tradition for Internet Explorer, uh, "enthusiasts," and now the Firefox fans are carrying the torch: Inspired by a 100-extension test back in February, the fine folks at CyberNotes doubled their pleasure and installed 200 add-ons in Firefox 2. The result? Well, it isn't pretty. Predictably, the screen is almost totally overwhelmed by toolbars, leaving but a few square inches for actually navigating the web. Perhaps more impressive is the Tools menu which takes up almost two full screen heights. What's impressive, though, is even after two hundred add-ons are installed, CyberNotes finds that Firefox still, essentially, works, and takes up a hefty but not outlandish 200MB of RAM.[Thanks, TJ!]
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12-06-2006 @ 12:07PM
RP said...
That's insane!
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12-06-2006 @ 12:16PM
enzo said...
Reminds me of the picture of iexplorer on the Wikipedia Entry for spyware.
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12-06-2006 @ 11:41PM
Aalaap said...
I don't have the courage to install so many extensions on my PC (I keep everything clean and stock as much as possible), but I wonder if you could do so and then use the pretty AutoHide extension (http://www.lifehacker.com/software/fullscreen/download-of-the-day-autohide-firefox-217327.php) to swipe this entire toolbar orgy right out of the screen...
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12-07-2006 @ 12:09AM
Freezer said...
Damn... I thought my 24 extensions was pushing things!
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12-07-2006 @ 12:44AM
s1pacrat said...
Hey, is that running in vista?
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12-07-2006 @ 10:04AM
Asten said...
200 meg... for now! Wait until you keep it running for 12 hours. Firefox with merely the google toolbar has leaked its way to over 700 meg inside a day on my machine.
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12-07-2006 @ 12:50PM
Tom said...
@enzo: you mean the screenshot linked to in the post? See the words "a tradition" in the second sentence.
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12-08-2006 @ 11:02AM
Eleventeen said...
You forgot Poland.
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