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- jeches, on 06/30/2009, -8/+71Just make Firefox eat up less memory and I'll be in heaven.
- jboitnott, on 06/30/2009, -2/+43This makes me wonder what the web browser will look like in 10 years. I wonder if it will be anything like what we use today?
- gdenne, on 06/30/2009, -3/+32My guess is everything will be done in a browser in 10 years. The OS will just be browser.
- dchaffin, on 06/30/2009, -1/+29In 10 years, we will indeed have cool browsers, but 1/3 of all corporate PCs will still be using IE6. :)
- doshindude, on 06/30/2009, -4/+24Let's get 3.5 out before we start getting ahead of ourselves eh?
- inactive, on 06/30/2009, -1/+18Needs more cowbell
- ligyron, on 06/30/2009, -0/+15It's coming out tomorrow. Firefox 3.5 is sooooo today.
- Wargasmic, on 06/30/2009, -0/+13I use firefox for the addons as well. That's the only thing keeping me away from chrome really.
- hubertqubert, on 06/30/2009, -0/+11Firefox 3.5 uses MUCH less memory than the latest version of all the other alternative browsers. Hallelujah?
http://dotnetperls.com/chrome-memory - ataylor32, on 06/30/2009, -0/+10I definitely prefer Firefox over IE, but I use IE 8 at work and I do like how it has line numbers when you view source.
- manitoba98xp, on 06/30/2009, -0/+9"We already use our brains when we surf."
I beg to differ. Case in point: YouTube comments. - ligyron, on 06/30/2009, -3/+11You care enough to comment
- stuffradio, on 06/30/2009, -0/+7*removes brain from head*
*falls to the floor* - skit4king, on 06/30/2009, -1/+7Beer on tap would be a start
- darkNiGHTS, on 06/30/2009, -0/+6When Firefox is using 1GB, a third of the max RAM on a 32-bit OS and locks up, the price of RAM has nothing to do with it.
- cJw314, on 06/30/2009, -0/+5I just un-closed this tab in FF to digg you up. :D
- INTERNETMASTER, on 06/30/2009, -0/+5"Better Peformance"
*standing ovation* - zanzzz, on 06/30/2009, -0/+5Really? It's the extensions that make Firefox the winner. Chrome is fast but lacks Adblock, NoSquint, Stylish, Gmail Manager, All-in-One Sidebar to name a few.
- Abydos, on 06/30/2009, -1/+6Four words: What about Thunderbird 2.0? The second beta has been out since February.
- liquidvampire, on 06/30/2009, -7/+11Glad to see all the under-the-hood improvements. Because, I gotta be honest with ya, (and I might get flamed for saying this), the /only/ reason I use FF is because of Adblock, MouseGestures, and W3 compliance.
But I've been using IE (in Vista, anyways) more often recently, due to the fact that random Flash apps don't crash, it's /always/ fast, key-board short-cuts aren't all that bad, and standard compliance aside: more sites work on it.
Even digg runs better in IE8, what up.
Don't get me wrong, I ain't FF bashing. Just saying, can't wait for them to make it a little more stable, and a little quicker. - kojot350, on 06/30/2009, -0/+4Actually FF 3.5 is faster than Chrome and more memory efficient.
- 0ldmankdude, on 06/30/2009, -0/+4if they implement tabs as processes (correctly) and have a sort of sandboxing (like chrome), that would be another awesome feature.
also, reducing memory usage would be great! - frozenwalkway, on 06/30/2009, -0/+4its not the price of ram its the principle. today i had firefox go up to 800 mb of ram used and i dont even have that many add ons
- roxgod666, on 06/30/2009, -1/+4Dear diary,
Today was a very interesting day. I went fishing, and i learned that Caucasoid from Digg does not care what Firefox will look like in 2010. - BrownieMix, on 06/30/2009, -0/+3It's interesting to think about. Can't help but wonder what Chrome and Opera will be like too.
- landosystem, on 06/30/2009, -1/+4Apparently Digg users want more crashy. (Just crashed again BTW, and I have no extensions and it is updated and running on a brand new Macbook Pro.)
- Dustmuffins, on 06/30/2009, -0/+3Yeah... like... google?
- ataylor32, on 06/30/2009, -1/+3I'm not siding with or going against Microsoft, but what they said about the Acid3 test was interesting: http://www.osnews.com/story/21193/_IE8_Does_Not_Pa ...
- Domthedude001, on 06/30/2009, -0/+2We already use our brains when we surf.
The future is being able to surf without our brains. - dagamer34, on 06/30/2009, -0/+2Tomorrow? I think you can wait that long.
- deadguysleeps, on 06/30/2009, -1/+3i hope they would include a feature like "minimize to tray" as a standard for the feature "converting web app into desktop app". i hate having too much apps on the taskbar
- stuffradio, on 06/30/2009, -1/+3We will be able to surf the web with our brains.
- dagamer34, on 06/30/2009, -1/+3Eh, 93/100 for Firefox 3.5 is pretty damn good, and the features it is missing won't be used for a while.
- Wargasmic, on 06/30/2009, -0/+2Didn't the old mozilla browser keep a tray app running so that it would launch from memory?
- kezekiel, on 06/30/2009, -0/+2No shat, edmass. I've been using FF since the beginning, and 3.x on the Mac isn't worth the performance hit. Sometimes you just gotta stop and optimize.
- srg13, on 06/30/2009, -0/+2Are you guys using Firefox 2.5 or something? Or just making these numbers up? I'm on 3.5 with 18 tabs open (one youtube) and about five extentions (Web developer toolbar, Firebug, Adblock, Greasemonkey etc.) and it's using just 208MB...
- SeculrProgrsive, on 07/01/2009, -0/+2People need to get their noses out of Firefox's ass, this leaky buggy memory hog locks up on me just about every goddamn day.
- rhinofinger, on 06/30/2009, -0/+2I hope they don't. Make it an extension. I hate having things in my tray, and ever since I started using Windows 7, my taskbar's been much freer.
- TrellSaracen, on 06/30/2009, -0/+2The more browsers try to implement the not-yet-standard, the sooner limitations will be found, and the quicker the not-yet-standard can be developed into an actual standard.
Microsoft are just copping out as usual. If Yiffilla, Opera and Webkit can all add vendor-prefixes to in-development CSS properties, then Microsoft can, too. - theaceoffire, on 07/01/2009, -0/+2landosystem:
I install flashblock, so that I only load the videos and none of the other things (menus, etc) until I need them. - alsazen, on 06/30/2009, -0/+2that was just a concept video, not something they were actually making.
Some of the elements and features shown may make it into future browsers but a lot of it will likely never happen due to corporate wrangling and disagreements on standards (look how long HTML5 has taken to arrive). - theaceoffire, on 06/30/2009, -0/+2Do you have the Flash plugin?
Flash has turned out to be the one thing with memory leaks, instability, and the cause of 99% of all my crashes (On both firefox and the PS3) - iziizi, on 06/30/2009, -0/+2Mine is currently using 500MBs... Also quite CPU hungry at times.
Luckily I have 8GB of ram so no biggy. - deadguysleeps, on 06/30/2009, -0/+1i know, but i want the "child" app to be given the option of minimizing to tray.
- TrellSaracen, on 06/30/2009, -0/+1Are extensions even capable of having that much control over the Win32 API?
- bratterscain, on 06/30/2009, -1/+2You mean everything accessed from a browser? You could essentially link an offline exe on your PC from your browser if you're a decent programmer. But why? So the thing that lets us access the internet is going to expand and let me load my Crysis from it, or whatever flavor of the year PC game or app? I highly doubt it. I just think the internet will be more seamless but not like one program (browser) will turn out to be the king of programs which all the others have to go through. Just maintaining a browser is a big enough task, let alone a whole OS.
There will always be a need for local work (OS) where you need no connection to someone or something else outside it. Just as the brain does work within its own neural network without needing non-local communication. Don't underestimate the individual or local over the OS or network. They're all co-dependent. - ethana2, on 06/30/2009, -0/+1SMIL is crucial for replacing Flash with open standards based web page coding.
- srg13, on 06/30/2009, -0/+1You think a major software project like Firefox should only focus on the next release and have no other plans?
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