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Re: Mozilla is building an operating system

#11
I wish they'd concentrate on making a browser that does not need to be restarted after every hour or 2 of browsing lest it become more and more unresponsive.

I wish they'd concentrate on making a browser that can start scrolling before all the Javascript on the page has finished running.

(I'm using FF 7 on Snow Leopard with 1 gig of RAM. Would I have to restart FF less often if I had more RAM?)

Re: Mozilla is building an operating system

#12

I wish they'd concentrate on making a browser that does not need to be restarted after every hour or 2 of browsing lest it become more and more unresponsive. I wish they'd concentrate on making a browser that can start scrolling before all the Javascript on the page has finished running. (I'm using FF 7 on Snow Leopard with 1 gig of RAM. Would I have to restart FF less often if I had more RAM?)

I think you need minimum 2 GB of RAM, ideally 4GB+. More than 4-5 tabs on 1G machine will deteriorate performance very easily.

Re: Mozilla is building an operating system

#13

I wish they'd concentrate on making a browser that does not need to be restarted after every hour or 2 of browsing lest it become more and more unresponsive. I wish they'd concentrate on making a browser that can start scrolling before all the Javascript on the page has finished running. (I'm using FF 7 on Snow Leopard with 1 gig of RAM. Would I have to restart FF less often if I had more RAM?)

Running FF5 on Win7, 2 GB of RAM. I leave it open all day with no issues. 5+ tabs at all times.

Re: Mozilla is building an operating system

#14

I wish they'd concentrate on making a browser that does not need to be restarted after every hour or 2 of browsing lest it become more and more unresponsive. I wish they'd concentrate on making a browser that can start scrolling before all the Javascript on the page has finished running. (I'm using FF 7 on Snow Leopard with 1 gig of RAM. Would I have to restart FF less often if I had more RAM?)

To me, it's clear that they have spent more time making a rendering engine that is more compatible with CSS and Javascript. Every other popular browser(including Opera) has some serious Javascript and CSS rendering issues where it counts. From my development experience Firefox is the most developer friendly browser, by miles.

Re: Mozilla is building an operating system

#15
Impressive how the most voted comments are rants about the browser.

If that's insightful or useful comments hit me...

I really don't understand this hate towards Mozilla that has been going around lately.

Edit: Why am I being downvoted? It's a sincere opinion of a person who doesn't see a relation in critizising a project of an organisation in an article that talks about other projects.

If you dont like Firefox its fine, but it's a wonderful project with millions of users and that cannot be denied.

Sending my opinion to oblivion because of pointing how unrelated the firefox rant comments are to the article makes no sense.

Re: Mozilla is building an operating system

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post #15

Impressive how the most voted comments are rants about the browser. If that's insightful or useful comments hit me... I really don't understand this hate towards Mozilla that has been going around lately. Edit: Why am I being downvoted? It's a sincere opinion of a person who doesn't see a relation in critizising a project of an organisation in an article that talks about other projects. If you dont like Firefox its f…

Building an os is hard stuff, and if you can't produce a browser without memory leaks (or a caching strategy I can't possibly start to fathom), you're not headed in the right direction.

Re: Mozilla is building an operating system

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post #15

Impressive how the most voted comments are rants about the browser. If that's insightful or useful comments hit me... I really don't understand this hate towards Mozilla that has been going around lately. Edit: Why am I being downvoted? It's a sincere opinion of a person who doesn't see a relation in critizising a project of an organisation in an article that talks about other projects. If you dont like Firefox its f…

I'd have to trust Mozilla to keep up in the browser space before I considered using an OS developed by them.

Re: Mozilla is building an operating system

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I wish they'd concentrate on making a browser that does not need to be restarted after every hour or 2 of browsing lest it become more and more unresponsive. I wish they'd concentrate on making a browser that can start scrolling before all the Javascript on the page has finished running. (I'm using FF 7 on Snow Leopard with 1 gig of RAM. Would I have to restart FF less often if I had more RAM?)

I wish they'd concentrate on making a browser that does not need to be restarted after every hour or 2 of browsing lest it become more and more unresponsive.

Amen, brother. I have been a Mozilla / Firefox / Seamonkey / etc. fanboy for years, but even I finally gave up and moved to using Chrome primarily, and it was mainly due to that very problem. For years now they've battled memory issues (I say "issues" since they continue to insist that there aren't any "leaks" per-se) that kill performance... one release will work great, then the next release, it's back to more of the same... next release, things get better... another release, and it's time for a RAM upgrade again... it's like they seem to be totally incapable of truly, finally, getting a handle on the memory usage situation. :-(

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