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- DrGamez, on 10/10/2007, -2/+32The easiest way you can help is to just spread the word. Get your moms, your dads, your brothers to all use Firefox.
- triley5000, on 10/10/2007, -0/+16This is awesome community support and that is what Mozilla is all about. Please join the test days or help out in anyway.
- KWhat, on 10/10/2007, -4/+19I would love to help Firefox, however the bugs that are reported are not fixed. It seems like Firefox is more focused on adding new features instead of focusing on fixing the ones they currently have. Don't take this the wrong way, I love Firefox's features but if it takes 100mb of ram to open a 1 mb XML file, I would much rather use SeaMonkey or Opera.
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=291643
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=106357 - simoncoul, on 10/10/2007, -0/+13Also using the integrated search or the firefox google start page as well. They get money every time you use one of these search options, to help keep the project going is an even easier way to help!
- hugeposuer, on 10/10/2007, -1/+12There are 3.
- RobotII, on 10/10/2007, -1/+9There may be 100 million users. Like many others, I use Firefox at home, but am forced to use *something else* at work.
- ICSU, on 10/10/2007, -0/+8I always install it to everybody and explain why it's better. I'm surprised that so many people I wouldn't expect to have it already use it.
- Barbarino, on 10/10/2007, -3/+10Hey I love FF, I spread the word, but lets be honest, no way are there 100 Million users.
- lesty420, on 10/10/2007, -1/+7You don't know a lot about the Mozilla Corporation do a little research.
- fkr3, on 10/10/2007, -0/+5And another some 600,000,000 IE6 users.
- koick, on 10/10/2007, -2/+6Nope, but it *has* never been easier to help.
- shadowsurfr1, on 10/10/2007, -1/+5That's the idea behind community involvement, though. If someone out there is an experienced enough programmer to fix that, they will.
- koick, on 10/10/2007, -1/+4More info here
http://quality.mozilla.org/events/test-days - felix21685, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3still wish their collared shirts weren't 35 bucks.
- SSYe, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3"The Mozilla Foundation (abbreviated MF or MoFo) is a non-profit organization that exists to support and provide leadership for the open source Mozilla project. The organization sets the policies that govern development, operates key infrastructure and controls trademarks and other intellectual property. It owns a taxable subsidiary called the Mozilla Corporation, which employs several Mozilla developers and coordinates releases of the Mozilla Firefox web browser and the Mozilla Thunderbird email client. The Mozilla Foundation is based in Mountain View, California, USA.
The Mozilla Foundation describes itself as 'a non-profit organization dedicated to preserving choice and promoting innovation on the Internet'."
- WIkipedia (and dont tell me wikipedia is always inaccurate because you'll be surprised...) - Dumbledorito, on 10/10/2007, -4/+7And even though it'll get dug down like my comment above (no matter how true), why haven't the rampant memory leaks been fixed? No browser needs 2 gigs of RAM.
- Satanael, on 10/10/2007, -3/+5You have Digg Fever.
- x00x, on 10/10/2007, -2/+4I can't fathom why this comment was dug down the way it has.
The issue of memory leaks is a very legitimate, thoughtful concern Yes, we are all Firefox sycophants to the extreme, yes, Firefox is the greatest thing on the web since porn, but why should Firefox in all its majesty be exempt from being criticized for things the development team feels they can get away with and the public is going to put with?
Oooh. He spoke of Firefox in less than divine terms. That's geek blasphemy. He must be punished. He must be dugg down into hell. - Dumbledorito, on 10/10/2007, -3/+5I wish I could, but FF keeps grabbing all of my CPU cycles and RAM. Look, I like FF, but this is a HUGE ***** PROBLEM that nobody seems able to fix. What good is a browser that keeps having more non-critical features slapped on it when its base function is so buggy?
- p0tent1al, on 10/10/2007, -1/+3What is this, the Blue Collar Comedy Tour?
- DDRRE, on 10/10/2007, -2/+4Yeah, I think we got that already.
- iashraf, on 10/10/2007, -1/+3When I first installed it for my dad he didn't want to use it because it seemed slower than IE which he was using at the time. But gradually hes switched over. At first, I do think it seems a little different (not necessarily slower) than what you're used to, and that's what I think puts a lot of people off.
- KWhat, on 10/10/2007, -1/+3I have looked into that very issue and they are still not calling it a leak. Apparently there are bugs in the page cache that prevent Firefox from dumping its cache after a page is closed. This is why when you open a tone of tabs over time but close them later you still have a huge chunk of memory used by Firefox. Again bugs for all these issues have been reported but i am not holding my breath that they will be fixed in 3.0.
- p0tent1al, on 10/10/2007, -1/+2Sorry, I really don't feel compelled to contribute to a company that hasn't been totally focused on what users have been asking for a long time; for them to fix the memory problems/leaks. I'm not ready to endorse a company who has been slacking. Browsers like Opera (even though I don't use it) have been steadily adding more features, and making a better product, and it seems like Mozilla has been chilling back, letting people develop addons.
When they acknowledge that their browser has a problem, then I might be ready to endorse them. Until then, forget it. - BevansDesign, on 10/10/2007, -3/+4Sorry? Are you comparing a web browser to an entire operating system? I'm assuming you mean IE, which doesn't come with Solitaire. But every version of Windows does.
- iceschade, on 10/10/2007, -2/+3Wow... I don't know what you guys are doing, but I've only had Firefox crash on me maybe once or twice a month, tops. And I use it daily, almost all day long. I design websites for a living, with PHP/MySQL/JavaScript.
- BevansDesign, on 10/10/2007, -1/+2If there are 100 million FF users, that means there are about 267 million IE7 users.
- eatmorgnome, on 10/10/2007, -2/+3So the crash reports I send 5 times a day aren't enough?
- SSYe, on 10/10/2007, -1/+2MInefield? The last time i downloaded a firefox 3.0 alpha that's what it was called.
- fkr3, on 10/10/2007, -1/+2Yes, that's the idea behind *community* projects. Mozilla's a corporation and their programmers are aka "employees". The "help" the community is being urged to give is reporting bugs. You'd be hard pressed to find any other way to really get involved directly with the project unless you became an employee or created an independent fork.
- Rileyper, on 10/10/2007, -2/+2I support firefox, i download it
- richbradshaw, on 10/10/2007, -3/+3Don't bother posting the same comment twice in different places...
- ThreeDee912, on 10/10/2007, -1/+1Doesn't Firefox and Seamonkey share code?
- fkr3, on 10/10/2007, -2/+2Unless you install Adblock, in which case you just give Google a solid reason to abandon their almost single-handed funding of Firefox.
- x00x, on 10/10/2007, -2/+2Yes, we all love Firefox to death, yes, we are all Firefox sycophants to the extreme, yes, Firefox is the greatest thing on the web since porn, but why should Firefox in all its glory and majesty be exempt from being criticized for things the development team feels they ca get away with that the public is going to put up with?
Issues like memory leaks are a fundamentally legitimate concern but it seems anyone who dare says anything less than flattering about
the way the development team prioritizes their resources is considered criminal.
But as long as the public remains indifferent to these concerns, Firefox will remain less than structually sound. - tony23, on 10/10/2007, -1/+1If they really want the "community" to help, maybe they should try listening to users who have complaints, instead of telling the users that the problem is in their configuration, or the plug-in that they're using, or some other program that they're running.
- fkr3, on 10/10/2007, -1/+1That's just the most popular of the excuses that have been given over the last 4 or 5 years people have been putting up with it.
- misteral, on 10/10/2007, -6/+6Better than coming bundled with Solitaire so you can have something to do while you wait for your page to load...
- hugeposuer, on 10/10/2007, -4/+3Why not get a portable version? You're never forced to use software.
- ThreeDee912, on 10/10/2007, -2/+1"Ryan Paul"
I was about to bury this story... - rollem, on 10/10/2007, -4/+2That's worldwide users. And yes, the number is almost definitely inflated due to multiple downloads and people who end up still using IE after downloading FF. Anybody know how many users Opera has?
- mesostinky, on 10/10/2007, -4/+2I'm just going to be jerk here and say I'll do it if they pay me some on that $50+ million they take in a year from ads. Why should we kill ourselves helping out when they easily make enough money to hire 1,000 engineers to do it themselves? The days of Mozilla.org being a struggling group of hackers working for free are over. It's time they start offering some money or prizes for all of the support they've gotten over the last 5 years.
Edit - I see someone else posted the same thing. I don't work for Microsoft for Free and I'm not going to work for Mozilla for free either. - potterboy, on 10/10/2007, -5/+2Yeah, because a random program using mass amounts of bandwidth is going to go unnoticed.
- potterboy, on 10/10/2007, -5/+2Yeah, because a random program using mass amounts of bandwidth is going to go unnoticed.
- JanYpe, on 10/10/2007, -5/+2Haha, you'll get dugg down so fast your head will be spinning. Even if you do have a small point.
- MrSketch, on 10/10/2007, -6/+2You might be a Ron Paul zealot if you read Ryan Paul as Ron Paul and the combination of teh Paul and Firefox caused you have a spontaneous orgasm.
- desheffer, on 10/10/2007, -8/+3Your mom uses Firefox!
- inkhead, on 10/10/2007, -10/+5This is not some "community project" Mozilla is a huge corporation bringing in HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS of dollars are year. They are a huge corporation with hundreds of marketing, sales staff, and over 500+ employees.
Some of the wealthiest people in california are at Mozilla so STOP pretending like this is a "little" community project to take on "big old bad microsoft" - inactive, on 10/10/2007, -5/+0i use firefox mostly
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