I can't believe I just got called a "mom and pop beige-box surfer"...
I thought about throwing 'silver' in before the 'surfer', but now I'm glad I didn't.
Fixes to memory footprint and garbage collection arrive in Firefox 7
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Re: Fixes to memory footprint and garbage collection arrive in Firefox 7
#12Too little, too late. Chrome has already won.
Re: Fixes to memory footprint and garbage collection arrive in Firefox 7
#13" As we all know, Chrome isn’t actually a whole lot faster than Firefox, it just feels snappier — something Mozilla no doubt wants to emulate."
I'm glad they're focusing on memory. Better late than never but I see frequent claims similar to these that Chrome isn't that much better or might have a slight advantage which we will catch up soon, blah blah blah.
C'mon guys. When's the last time Firefox put Chrome on the offensive. Playing catchup leaves you several steps behind. When FF7 rolls out next month or whenever this new release cycle comes Chrome might be even faster and snappier.
I still remember when I switched from IE to FF. It was faster, lighter and had more innovative features. Suddenly the web got more exciting. It's the same feeling I had using Chrome only they never dipped below that initial experience.
FF right now is like Elvis' jumpsuit era. Out of shape, lost, struggling with identity, and now about to go on Celebrity Fit Club.
FF is still my primary browser but only for the extensions.
Re: Fixes to memory footprint and garbage collection arrive in Firefox 7
#14PLEASE can we not start posting every vapourware announcement from Google and Mozilla now that they are doing browser releases every few weeks? This sort of change might be interesting if it was actually available in a production build today, as the title half-suggests it is unless you know that Firefox 7 is still months away. Do we really want the HN home page to become a stream of dev feature announcements, though? Even Slashdot moved away from doing that.
Re: Fixes to memory footprint and garbage collection arrive in Firefox 7
#15I can't believe I just got called a "mom and pop beige-box surfer"...
I'll second that. Considering I work at an online development agency and only have 4GB of ram in my work machine, I'd say the author is a bit out of touch. This is most definitely an issue for me.
You have twice as much RAM as the people he was speaking of. I'd say 2GB is pretty low these days, glancing at Dell.com even the $499 entry level laptops are shipping with 4GB.
Re: Fixes to memory footprint and garbage collection arrive in Firefox 7
#16They should have been working on these issues a long time ago. I think they are far more important than many of the new features that came with v5. The only thing holding many of us back from using FF is the memory issue. Good thing the FB debugger is so awesome, because that's the only thing that keeps bringing me back at this point.
Amusingly enough, Firebug has significant memory usage/leak issues and most users are much better off using it in another profile to keep down memory usage.
Re: Fixes to memory footprint and garbage collection arrive in Firefox 7
#17Also coming in Firefox 7: The number 7.
Re: Fixes to memory footprint and garbage collection arrive in Firefox 7
#18PLEASE can we not start posting every vapourware announcement from Google and Mozilla now that they are doing browser releases every few weeks? This sort of change might be interesting if it was actually available in a production build today, as the title half-suggests it is unless you know that Firefox 7 is still months away. Do we really want the HN home page to become a stream of dev feature announcements, though?…
Totally agree with you but this particular one isn't vaporware
Re: Fixes to memory footprint and garbage collection arrive in Firefox 7
#19I can't believe I just got called a "mom and pop beige-box surfer"...
768MB here, any help apps can give in keeping themselves lean is good.
Re: Fixes to memory footprint and garbage collection arrive in Firefox 7
#20PLEASE can we not start posting every vapourware announcement from Google and Mozilla now that they are doing browser releases every few weeks? This sort of change might be interesting if it was actually available in a production build today, as the title half-suggests it is unless you know that Firefox 7 is still months away. Do we really want the HN home page to become a stream of dev feature announcements, though?…
Accusations of vapourware and 6-weekly release schedules with developer/aurora channels don't really seem to fit together in my mind, in fact they seem diametrically opposed.