Comment: Supported since Firefox 11 (Score 5, Informative) 275
Go to about:config and switch network.http.spdy.enabled.
Mozilla has been quite critical of some Google technologies (Dart, Native Client,
Notes on Reducing Firefox's Memory Consumption->
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Skuto writes "At yesterdays linux.conf.au Browser miniconference in Ballarat, Australia, Mozilla engineer Nicholas Nethercote gave a detailed presentation about the history of Firefox's memory consumption. The 37 slides-with-notes explain in gritty detail what caused Firefox 4's memory usage to be higher than expected, how many leaks and accidental memory use bugs were tracked down with Valgrind plugins, as well as the pitfalls of common memory allocation strategies. Current work is now focused on reducing the memory usage of popular add-ons such as AdBlock, GreaseMonkey and Firebug.
Required reading for people working on large software projects, or those who missed that Firefox is now one of the most memory-efficient browsers in heavy usage."
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Required reading for people working on large software projects, or those who missed that Firefox is now one of the most memory-efficient browsers in heavy usage."
Link to Original Source
Comment: Re:Why support Mozilla? (Score 1) 187
I worked at Netscape back in the 1994-1996 timeframe, and I knew some of the people who did very well in the Netscape IPO then went on to Mozilla. They've apparently changed. I guess it's okay to be enterprise-hostile after the enterprises have landed them a huge paycheck...
I don't get your argument. Mozilla isn't Netscape. I'm guessing the people that went from one to the other did so because they cared about the product, not because they subscribed to the corporate philosophy. The income structure of Mozilla in 2011 has little or nothing to do with what the one of Netscape in 1995 was!
Comment: Re:Hmmmm . . . (Score 1) 187
Everyone knows the next version after 3.6 is called 2012.
Comment: Re:FTFY: NotScript (Score 2) 187
The crashes aren't uniformly distributed. Far from it. If you hit a problem case, it'll crash 10 times a day. If you don't, it'll run for months without an issue.
As you already observed, extensions are the main problem makers, and that's true for all browsers.
Comment: Re:Why support Mozilla? (Score 1) 187
My point is that corporations, not home users, are the ones paying the Mozilla Foundation's bills and payroll
Nope. Absolutely not. Mozilla is payed for by users who run the browser and click Google ads. Some of these run Firefox because that's what their corporation gives them. If you look at adoption numbers, 3.6 is now down to 4%. So the people who pay Mozilla are overwhelmingly home users, or corporations that didn't have any problem with updating it.
It seems to be that 4% that makes a lot of noise and demands that everything else is held up while they get their act together. That isn't going to happen. But apparently that 4% is big enough to make the ESR versions.
Comment: Re:FF3.6 is starting to look like IE6 (Score 1) 187
Except FF3.6 doesn't suck.
It has known memory leaks that are fixed in more recent versions (some big ones in 4.0 already). And people always complain it uses a lot of memory. *sigh*
Comment: Re:My support for Firefox ended 2011 (Score 1) 187
Some minimal research would have shown that Firefox releases for Windows are compiled with MSVC 2010 in PGO mode. Not the Intel Compiler. There is absolutely nothing in Firefox that cares what brand your CPUs is. It runs even on ARM.
Comment: Re:3.6 is the last release for PowerPC macs (Score 1) 187
There is community support for those through TenFourFox, but eventually they won't be able to keep up with the development pace, as supporting PowerPC macs is not effort-free.
Comment: Re:Dropping support for what works. (Score 2) 187
This is a problem that Mozilla has failed to address
Because it's not actually their problem. They can't update every add-on or extension ever written to the newer versions themselves. Many of them aren't even open source.
If you installed crappy extensions onto the base product, it is not the problem of the base product if they don't work.