Memory usage has always been the Achilles’ heel of the Firefox browser for part of the user base. Mozilla acknowledges that and is currently working on optimizing the browser’s memory usage significantly. One would normally assume that opening a tab increases memory usage, and that closing the same tab would drop memory utilization again to [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
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Firefox 5 Gets Faster Connections, Up Next: Memory Improvements
Firefox 5 is a week away from being released as a final version. The browser is expected to be released as final on June 21. When you look at the changelog you will notice quite a few under the hood improvements that have not been talked about yet. HTTP Transactions sorted by CWND is one [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
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Firefox 4, The State Of Development
When is Mozilla going to release the next beta of Firefox? When the release candidate and final build of the web browser? News are scarce at this point in time and I will try my best to give you an overview of things to come. The latest public beta version of Firefox 4 is beta [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
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Firefox 2011 Roadmap Updated, Expect Firefox 7 in 2011
News made the round at the end of January that Mozilla had plans to accelerate the development of the Firefox web browser by releasing major version updates more frequently. The Firefox 2011 roadmap was updated to reflect this change in development and to outline the “planned strategy and direction for Firefox in 2011″. Probably the [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
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Mozilla Plans To Move Tabs To Titlebar On Windows
The move from Firefox 3.6 to Firefox 4 will be a major one. Not only functionality wise but also interface wise. Firefox users will have to cope with a lot of changes that the user interface team has made over the past couple of beta releases. We have criticized several of those changes as they [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
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Firefox, What I Would Like To See
Firefox is my default web browser, which can be mainly attributed to its amazing add-on support and customizability. But other browsers have emerged (Chrome) or improved to a point, that Firefox feels old fashioned in certain categories. Especially speed and performance wise. If you ever experienced how fast Chrome or Opera are opening the most [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
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Latest Firefox 4 Nightly Removes Status Bar
In a move that is likely to alienate part of the Firefox user base, Firefox developers have removed the status bar from the latest nightly builds of the upcoming web browser. Users who download and install the nightly build will immediately notice that the status bar has been removed from the browser. Even worse is [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
- Comments: 19
Firefox 4 Gets Paste And Go, Yay!
Sometimes, it is the little things that count. If you have been using Opera in the past you may have noticed that the browser offers a Paste & Go feature, which basically pastes and loads an url or phrase entered into the Opera address form. The same option is available for searches in the browser. [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
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Firefox 4 To Get Silent Security Updates
A recent discussion in the mozilla.dev.apps.firefox Usenet group revealed that the developers of the popular Firefox web browser are planning to implement silent updating capabilities for minor (that is security and stability updates) updates into the browser. The basic idea is to install security and stability related updates silently in the background, and major updates [...]