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Firefox 7 will use up to 50% less memory

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Re: Firefox 7 will use up to 50% less memory

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Post by mgkimsal »

notatoad wrote: post #52
mgkimsal wrote: post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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 there is only up-to-date and outdated.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.

and then they respond with 1001 reasons why they can't update (security restrictions, corporate policies, etc).

There has to be a line drawn - where do you draw it? If 5.0.1 came out yesterday, do you not support someone who is running 4.8 which came out 3 weeks ago?

Re: Firefox 7 will use up to 50% less memory

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Post by shadowfox »

DasIch wrote: post #16
onemoreact wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You often see the same pattern with OS. User4,27,128: "I think there might be an issue." Fanboy37,652: "What are you talking about? This is the best thing ever!!!" Fanboy23,418: "That easy to fix, just type everything backward while singing and it all works fine!!1!" ... Dev15: "Fixed problem 4,129" Fanboy37,652: "Now that that's fixed, this is the best thing ever!!1!"

As long as the devs stay sane it's not too much of a problem.

Users might have some issues finding help on their problems though.

Re: Firefox 7 will use up to 50% less memory

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Post by r00fus »

AndyKelley wrote: post #21
fedorabbit wrote: post #18

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.

The problem with using that metric is that the "feel" of a program is directly related to the UI changes that the version employs. You could change absolutely nothing bug and feature wise, but do a UI redesign and the new version would feel like it was updated a whole bunch.

Which is why I like Ubuntu's YY.MM versioning - it's completely natural and expected.

I also like build numbers like Microsoft and Apple give, you know if OSX 10.7 GM seed is different from the GA release by looking at the build (e.g. 11A494A)

Re: Firefox 7 will use up to 50% less memory

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Post by Klinky »

kodablah wrote: post #39
crikli wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> I have just over 70 tabs open... I'm really curious about this as once I get to about 10 tabs my brain starts wanting to close them to get back to something it can manage. This is either because I'm dumb (highly likely) or because you have a different usage style than I (also likely). So if you don't mind elaborating, how do you get to where you have that many tabs open?

Tree style tabs[1] have changed my life. There are plenty of times I get near 100 tabs. It automatically opens them as subtabs when ctrl or middle clicked. This is great when browsing source trees online via github, google code, etc. [1] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tree-style-ta...

Vertical tab management is far superior when managing a bunch of tabs. I am not sure how anyone who has more than a handful of tabs can get by horizontally, not sure how people can tell tabs apart when only seeing the favicon & a few characters of the title. What with widescreen displays being the norm now it just makes sense to do vertical tabs.

Re: Firefox 7 will use up to 50% less memory

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Post by heelhook »

pestaa wrote: post #36
heelhook wrote: post #7

I don't know what everyone is complaining about, whenever I want to open a few more tabs I just purchase a couple more gigs of ram, problem solved, bunch of whiners!

There are hundreds of better ways to pack & deliver your sarcasm.

Yeah? For example?

Re: Firefox 7 will use up to 50% less memory

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Post by notatoad »

mgkimsal wrote: post #61
notatoad wrote: post #52

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

and then they respond with 1001 reasons why they can't update (security restrictions, corporate policies, etc). There has to be a line drawn - where do you draw it? If 5.0.1 came out yesterday, do you not support someone who is running 4.8 which came out 3 weeks ago?

they respond with 1001 reasons why they can't update, you come back with "well that's too bad". the only way to change people's attitudes toward browser updates is to not tolerate outdated software. if we keep accommodating crappy IT departments, things will never change.

Re: Firefox 7 will use up to 50% less memory

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Post by [deleted] »

windsurfer wrote: post #6
Maro wrote: post #3

I'm using Firefox 5.0.1, I just clicked "Check for updates" and it said I'm up-to-date. Shouldn't 6 come out first? Isn't it too early to talk about 7? I think this is bad marketing from Mozilla, they're totally confusing people.

Firefox 7 isn't even a real release. You'll have to wait for 8. The new versioning system uses the Fibonacci sequence, so that after 8, the next "real" release will be 13, and then 21 etc. This is why you're currently stuck on 5.

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Re: Firefox 7 will use up to 50% less memory

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Post by srl »

hollerith wrote: post #50
huhtenberg wrote: post #47

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Hint: use multiple windows. One window with few tabs is for programming to-reads, second windows - with sites from searching for some item to buy, third - with stock information, etc. This way accumulating 100+ tabs is really not a big deal and it still remains manageable. Until FF crashes or, worse yet, grinds to a halt that is. "We are sorry, it is so embarrasing" it would say on a restart and then get herniated ag…

Yeah, I know, I should take my question to Stack Overflow, but does anyone know how to configure FF to not try to reopen tabs after a crash? (Takes a long time on my old machine.)

In about:config, change browser.sessionstore.resume_from_crash.

Re: Firefox 7 will use up to 50% less memory

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Post by drieddust »

I have switched to Firefox 8 nightly 64 bit 2 week and never turned back to stable release.

Firefox 8 is current state is performing an order of magnitude better than the current stable release.

They are definitely improving at an escalating pace ever since chrome and safari started eating into their market share.

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