This version inflation thing is getting a bit out of hand...I'm using Firefox 5 right now, I don't feel any difference from Firefox 4.
and why do you care?
Firefox 7 will use up to 50% less memory
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Re: Firefox 7 will use up to 50% less memory
#52Earlier quoted context omitted.
I think Firefox is trying to adopt the Chrome model, which is that version numbers are for the developers only. End users shouldn't need to know which version they're running.
except for when things go wrong and they just say "I'm using firefox and your site is broken".
and then you say "well, is your firefox updated?"
no more of this "i'm going to stick with version 3.6 for now because i prefer that" nonsense. there is only up-to-date and outdated. yeah, it's a subtle and mostly psychological difference, but it is a difference.
Re: Firefox 7 will use up to 50% less memory
#53Well, even with that it won't be comparable to Chrome I'm afraid. Firefox became very heavy suring the years. And no I don't have a lot of add-ons; I have 2 addons in FF and 15 addons in Chrome and yet Chrome processes suck much less memory even if i run it for days without closing. People switching to Chrome is not just PR, really.
Well, one thing is that Chrome extensions are much more limited; also, they only even run when you let them.
Re: Firefox 7 will use up to 50% less memory
#54This version inflation thing is getting a bit out of hand...I'm using Firefox 5 right now, I don't feel any difference from Firefox 4.
We're on "Chrome 13" if that means anything. It shouldn't make a difference as long as major release numbers correspond to major improvements.
Re: Firefox 7 will use up to 50% less memory
#55This version inflation thing is getting a bit out of hand...I'm using Firefox 5 right now, I don't feel any difference from Firefox 4.
Clearly, they are pulling the old "major version change marketing stunt" to catch up with a perceived lag in version numbers compared to other browsers. You see, apparently people think IE 9 must be vastly superior to FF 4...
Personally, I think the time for version numbers should probably be over altogether. At this point I feel it's more productive to just tack a date string onto the thing and be done with it. For example, Firefox 2011-July is way more informative than an actual version number.
Re: Firefox 7 will use up to 50% less memory
#56I'm reminded of MySQL. "You don't have transaction support" "Sure we do - just handle it in your code" "But I need transactions" "No you don't! That's just overarchitecting!" "No really I do" "Look how fast we are!" ... years later... "Hey look at MySQL - We have transactions! Look how great we are!" etc. I like FF. I use it. But every time there's some comment about FF memory, we usually see a bunch of people coming…
> I like FF. I use it. But every time there's some comment > about FF memory, we usually see a bunch of people coming > out saying they never see FF memory issues, the OP must be > doing something wrong or have a bad system, they use their > computer non-stop for 4 years without ever even seeing FF > slow down, etc. That's because complaints about large memory use in Firefox fall into two camps, generally: 1. "I left…
Did they make Firefox re-entrant so that a f'd up page in one tab doesn't affect all the other ones and the browser chrome?
Re: Firefox 7 will use up to 50% less memory
#57"up to 50% less"? That is a major weasel statement. It could use 1% less and still meet the "goal".
Re: Firefox 7 will use up to 50% less memory
#58" up to 50% less"? That is a major weasel statement. It could use 1% less and still meet the "goal".
I think you misunderstood -- it's not a goal but a measurement.
The actual statement, if you read the original source[1], is
>Firefox 7 uses less memory than Firefox 6 (and 5 and 4): often 20% to 30% less, and sometimes as much as 50% less.
[1] http://blog.mozilla.com/nnethercote/2011/08/09/firefox-7-is-...
Re: Firefox 7 will use up to 50% less memory
#59Memory is cheap. High UI latency and cross-browser crashes aren't. Sorry.
Re: Firefox 7 will use up to 50% less memory
#60Memory is cheap. High UI latency and cross-browser crashes aren't. Sorry.
Some people run other apps alongside Firefox and some of those apps also want to provide low UI latency.