Mozilla Drops Firefox 3.7 from Release Schedule

[nebun]

google chrome already has the features firefox is trying to implement. i am very pleased with the browser from google.

 

[lvlouro]

[citation][nom]edilee012[/nom]OK I will go first...Mozilla needs to drop Firefox altogether. That should get the comments going. All joking aside I still feel IE8 is far superior to Firefox as all versions of IE have been superior to all versions of FF. Yes I have tested both side by side and IE8 is faster than FF 3.5...sorry. Not to mention pages never load right in FF....I have yet to see what all the fuss is about.[/citation]
you have to be delusional, it's the only possible explanation, IE6 completely sucked when ff came out, and if I recall right, ff2 came out when IE6 was still MSFT browser, and the speed difference was huge, ff was a revolutionary browser, for it's speed and reliability.

 

[dreamer77dd]

I hate flash it so CPU intensive that they made GPUs to try to help out. I would prefer if sites use Microsoft Silverlight. It is surprisingly better. I think it is one of Microsoft better software. Adobe is blotted software, just stick to Photoshop, not browsers.

 

[dreamer77dd]

If Firefox is going to be in my Ram and work fast, i dont mind it using the memory. i dont like it when it uses memory even when i am not their using it for no reason. Maybe a little tweaking could help a lot. I am sure they hear about that all the time. I give up memory for performance though any day, just slap in a 4 gig's of RAM and suck away. I do find it crashes or stops working for a few minutes sometimes. If though issues are fix it be a great browser.

 

[dingumf]

Now if only Mozilla could reduce the amount of memory Firefox can consume in a session...

Like that really matters today what with out 3 GBs of ram and 32 bit OS

 

[npaladin2000]

One nice thing about Chrome is there's an addon that switches YouTube from using Flash to using HTML-embedded video. ANd yeah they DO have some of the features that FIrefox plans to implement. But there's a lot of websites that aren't 100% compatible with it. And come on: Google doesn't make a version of their own toolbar for their own browser?

What I have a problem with when Firefox goes one-process-per-tab though, is that each tab is going to be a memory hog, instead of just the one browser window. They need to work on memory footprint FIRST.

And Flash needs to be outlawed.

 

[npaladin2000]

[citation][nom]dingumf[/nom]Like that really matters today what with out 3 GBs of ram and 32 bit OS[/citation]

I've had Firefox use a full gig by ITSELF. That's just insane. But it's not hard to do depending on your browsing habits.

 

[rbarone69]

[citation][nom]edilee012[/nom]OK I will go first...Mozilla needs to drop Firefox altogether. That should get the comments going. All joking aside I still feel IE8 is far superior to Firefox as all versions of IE have been superior to all versions of FF. Yes I have tested both side by side and IE8 is faster than FF 3.5...sorry. Not to mention pages never load right in FF....I have yet to see what all the fuss is about.[/citation]

If I were a bettin' man, I'd say edilee012 works for MS hehe

 

[Gin Fushicho]

YES! YES! They are implementing my favorite things about Google Chrome and the only reason why I use Google chrome for anything! =D

And even better... they are releasing new features every 4-6 weeks!! YES!

I hope everyone else is as excited as I am! =D

 

[randomizer]

[citation][nom]Gin Fushicho[/nom]I hope everyone else is as excited as I am! =D[/citation]
As long as they keep the tabs below the address bar where they belong and don't make it look like a giant piece of glass (as the mockups suggest), I'm happy.

 

[jacobdrj]

I used to be a huge firefox guy, but ever since 3.5, it has been too unstable to use, and it has bogged down my system way too much, even in safe mode or with ad/flash/script blockers. Me and most of my family have switched voluntarily to chrome. We all keep ff on for compatibility and some flash/wot add ons, but it rarely gets booted up unless we need it.
IE8 isn't even on our radar...

 

[mitch074]

About RAM use: Firefox will use as much RAM as there is available, and actually adapt its memory use depending on available RAM.

Meaning that with 2 Gb of available RAM, Firefox 3.5 will take up to a Gb. However, if you only have 400 Mb, it'll take 100 Mb. If you have 128 Mb, it'll take 50 Mb.

IE 8, on the other hand, will always allocate a lot of RAM; using IE 8 on a 512 Mb machine is a pain - while Firefox 3.5 runs circles around it.

About tab processes separation: they will also perform their own RAM management.

Meaning that multiprocess Firefox 4 will make use of your available RAM - no more no less. Remember that they are using the very same engine that is found in Firefox 3.5 to power their mobile version...

 

[maddad]

I use Firefox almost exclusively since it's been available. Has worked great on my VISTA (now Windows 7) machine. The problems I have had are adobe flash based. If I run a single flash game in one tab there are no problems. But on facebook, if I log in on 2 separate tabs and play 2 flash games simultaneously, both games run slow. I haven't tried this in IE8 cause I use it to update windows and thats it. (I may try it though) On my XP machine at work using IE6 flash runs extremely slow. I also dual boot using Ubuntu, I haven't tried facebook in more than one tab on Ubuntu, I think I will try that too to see how it works. I love Firefox, without it there would never have been an IE8 to begin with.

 

[metatasian]

IE8's UI is AWFUL! takes up too much screen space, and the buttons are all over the place. It doesn't seem like Microsoft bother to update it either.

I have used Firefox for the last few years as my sole browser and its great. (Although I had to reinstall windows due to flash problems - I HATE YOU ADOBE with your crap bloated software!)

I recently moved over to Chrome and I'm amazed at how fast and light weight it is. I use this as my sole browser now, occasionally swapping between Chrome and Firefox, as Firefox has more features and options.

 

[sykozis]

I've used IE, Firefox, Chrome, Safari and Opera....Firefox and Safari load painfully slow, Opera crashes too frequently, Chrome is too plain and toolbars in IE can takeup the entire screen. As someone else stated, no browser is perfect. Personally, I use IE. On my poor little EeePC, it loads faster than FF, Safari or Opera, crashes less frequently than either of them, and is visually more pleasing than Chrome, which by far loads faster than any of them. In my experience, IE also loads pages faster than FF, Safari or Opera...regardless of what bullshit "benchmarks" claim. FF can load pages faster...if you want to download more addons, which is just stupid. Also, FF replaced the former Mozilla browser which was packaged with the "Mozilla Suite" and was also the codebase for the older Netscape browsers pre-Netscape 7....Netscape 8 addopted the Firefox codebase and Chrome uses a large portion of Safari's codebase aka webkit.

 

[matt_b]

[citation][nom]eddieroolz[/nom]I like how Adobe is singled out as the major source of the problem.[/citation]
Adobe's Flash player offers a lot to complain about these days.