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Re: Mozilla is building an operating system

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Ronkdar wrote: post #13
hollerith wrote: post #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?)

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

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Re: Mozilla is building an operating system

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Post by hollerith »

Ronkdar wrote: post #13
hollerith wrote: post #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?)

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

You have caused me to resolve to buy more RAM. Thanks.

Re: Mozilla is building an operating system

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Post by paran »

cosgroveb wrote: post #44

It seems strange to me that they announce this without even mentioning ChromeOS as if B2G was conceived in a cave.

You sir have hit the nail on the head. The article reads as is they invented something revolutionary. I do think there is great potential in browser os market and a little competition is all that's required to pave the way for the 'next big thing'! This might just do good for the ChromeOS.

Re: Mozilla is building an operating system

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Post by Ronkdar »

hollerith wrote: post #42
Ronkdar wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

You have caused me to resolve to buy more RAM. Thanks.

1 GB is pretty meager for general use these days.

Re: Mozilla is building an operating system

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Post by digitalnalogika »

hollerith wrote: post #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?)

Try disabling all add-ons, it got me to really low RAM usage and I had AdBlock & Firebug only earlier.

Re: Mozilla is building an operating system

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Post by hn_decay »

joakin wrote: 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 am in complete agreement. And quite honestly it grows tiring actually refuting the various anti-Firefox rants with actual fact -- it is a bit of a hobbyhorse of some people while they cheer on whatever team they're waving the flag of.

It honestly must be emotionally exhausting to work for Mozilla projects. For all of the incredible work they have done (Firefox is the reason Apple still exists...I'll argue that point if anyone would like), there are so many anti-Firefox fanboys who appear in every single Mozilla discussion to express their ridiculous anecdotes or to make uninformed, naive performance observations.

Re: Mozilla is building an operating system

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Post by hollerith »

digitalnalogika wrote: post #47
hollerith wrote: post #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?)

Try disabling all add-ons, it got me to really low RAM usage and I had AdBlock & Firebug only earlier.

Will disabling Flashblock improve performance?

(The only other extension I use is Adblock plus.)

Should I disable the plug-ins the come with FF?

Re: Mozilla is building an operating system

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Post by bzbarsky »

nxn wrote: post #34
hollerith wrote: post #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?)

Well, as a user you have the option of using another browser. Though, admittedly, with 1 gig of RAM I can't think of any decent one that wont give you problems after a few hours of browsing -- maybe chrome? As a web developer, I wish they'd concentrate on making a browser that lets you change the line-height of a button/input element. Such a simple change, yet the problem has been around since 2006, if I recall corre…

It's not a simple change, because sites actually rely on not being able to _decrease_ the line-height. I tried allowing sites to change the line-height and had to back that out because of sites breaking. You can read the whole sordid story at https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=349259

Note that the change to allow changing line-height specifically on did stick, and will ship in the next Firefox release in 3 weeks or so.

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