Firefox 7.0 is out

[IFMU]

i do have quite a few add-ons and i just recently restarted ff.
actually restarted the os, had a power brown out for a bit earlier. so this is a bit lower than what i'm used to.
guess i'll just have to go through and un-install each add-on one by one and see what makes a difference if any has a larger impact than others do. hope that's the case but doubting it.

[Solus Corvus]

Its always been a lot more stable than Fire Fox for me. A lot more stable.

It wasn't in my experience. Not to mention I have been running mostly current or near current nightlies for years, besides skipping the first few weeks of nightlies after a version change, yet I haven't had many stability problems at all. And session restore on startup makes living on the bleeding edge a moot point for me. I prefer the deeper customization ability.

[Solus Corvus]

i do have quite a few add-ons and i just recently restarted ff.
[snip]

I'll bet it's one of the addons. And that's not really mozilla's fault.
Here's my usage with a more regular number of tabs and the addons I mentioned.

nightly_memoryuseage02.jpg

[PatRaceTin]

i am missing status bar at bottom


Opera i am missing dropdown address bar history

[zanzabar]

get this
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/fir...status-4-evar/

[god_43]

jeez some ppl have issue's man, i never have these memory problems with firefox....i actually want it to use more memory! so that is i have like 400+tabs open; i dont reach a memory cap and it crashes on me. when ever i open ff, it only takes up about 58mb, 400+ tabs takes about 1 gig.



the only thing i dont like is the http hiding thing, it annoys the crap out of me, i wish i could turn it off.

[blindbox]

I ain't touching chrome until it stops lagging on zoomed in pics. This issue has existed for years.

[Boogerlad]

you can in about:config.
browser.urlbar.trimURLs
set to false.

[Generic user #2]

Been using Chrome before FF went 4.0. Still using Chrome.

Wasn't memory consumption that made me change. FF was slow as hell and a lot of times pages wouldn't render until I restarted FF. Chrome solved all thathat.

see? uninformed opinions here.

you should know that firefox 4 was a DRASTIC change in speed, becoming speed competitive with chrome 'overnight'.

[IFMU]

see? uninformed opinions here.

you should know that firefox 4 was a DRASTIC change in speed, becoming speed competitive with chrome 'overnight'.

how is that 'uninformed'? stating how his experience was. that is far from 'uninformed'. maybe mistaken, and stating it was firefox when it could have been an add-on or even just a bad install.
but DRASTICly far from 'uninformed'.

[FlanK3r]

can someone comparsion latest Firefox (example with 20 tbas) again Google with the same open tabs? It will be very useful for me. Thx.

[STEvil]

Frankly, I've never got what people see in Opera. Maybe a little more speed on slow machines and that's about it.

Its clean. The plugins dont die between versions... as much.

[Solus Corvus]

Its clean. The plugins dont die between versions... as much.

Maybe but it doesn't have as many plugins either. So you are bound to find more bad ones. I've used my main plugins for a long time across versions without much trouble. All I had to do was disable version checking and they usually work, if not they are usually updated before long. It's even better now because the about:config string doesn't need to be changed for new versions anymore. Just set extensions.checkCompatibility.nightly to false and forget about it.

As for clean, that's a matter of personal taste. Some people want clean and ease of use in exchange for reduced functionality and/or customization. Is that wrong? Not necessarily, the iphone sells well. But others will want the extra features, even if it means clutter, config files, and command lines. I'm glad there are choices available for all kinds of needs/desires.

[kiwi]

Chrome is fast but more extensions would be nice

I ain't touching chrome until it stops lagging on zoomed in pics. This issue has existed for years.

Ye, they need to add a feature or extension of text only zoom cause some zoomed pictures look plain wrong. I've been using Nosquint FF plugin for ages and it does only text zoom that I need

[DeltZ]

I have no idea what you guys do to mess up firefox so much, 6.0.2, 33 tabs, several youtube videos (just opened a crap load of bookmarks and stuff) and it's using 435mb ram

[SubZero.it]

I don't know why someone should use Firefox when the actual version of Opera is so f*****g great

[Tao~]

Now that both FF and Chromium support ABP, I have choice. I use FF 6.0.2 in Windows and its slightly laggy compared to Chromium in Linux. I dont care much about memory consumption because I dont run much intensive stuff while I am browsing. And I find Chromium (v12) no good, each tab with an average webpage takes over 60 MB , but thankfully there are no noticeable leaks.
FF 6.0.2 is fine ,as I said it feels slightly less responsive (might be because of the addons I have , esp. Pentadactyl) but I didnt notice any major leaks. If FF 7.0 has leaks that bad, well I wont get it

[mattkosem]

Never checked, or cared about, memory consumption of FireFox. I've maybe had it crash on me once or twice in the last 5 years or so, but I only use a few add-ons (DownThemAll, Omnibar, and Yahoo Mail Notifier). If the devs for your add-ons aren't building in support for newer versions, you should contact them about it. The 3 I use have worked on release day for every release in recent history. I like Opera's speed but it lacks variety in plugin support. I like Chrome's look and feel, but it seems like my CC number gets stolen every time I make a purchase with it (if I'm forced to use it instead of PayPal at any rate).

--Matt

[Vinas]

Newsflash, RAM is cheap. Go install 12GB + and stop whining!

[XSAlliN]

They improved memory usage (fixed some of the leak) since FF 7 beta:

Drastically improved memory use
Added a new rendering backend to speed up Canvas operations on Windows systems
Bookmark and password changes now sync almost instantly when using Firefox Sync
Added support for text-overflow: ellipsis
Added support for the Web Timing specification
Added an opt-in system for users to send performance data back to Mozilla to improve future versions of Firefox. This can be enabled by installing an add-on
Fixed several stability issues

I still find FF better for browsing cause of add-ons like NoScript and AdBlock.

[Aerwidh]

^ I like how the opt-in system will be handled via an add-on

[Pontos]

Meanwhile I'm running 9.0a1 with 24 tabs and 7 addons and I'm at 258 meg memory usage. I don't know why people even bother with the release versions.

I keep an eye to the commits posted to the mercurial repository from where the nightlies are built (mozilla-central), and in more than one occasion i found a backout of a change that literally broke the whole thing. If it happens that the latest nightly build was made before that backout was committed, you'd be stuck with a broken build until the following day (Unless you deal with it manually).
That's why i don't use nightlies. There's a considerable chance they may not work right, and that's not a good thing for a main browser.

Before this new development scheme i used to run the betas and release candidates for FF3.5 up to FF4, which are built after some QA unlike the nightlies. Nowadays i simply wait for each final release since they are coming every two months or so...

[N19h7m4r3]

I'm FTP'ing FF 7 now.

I've always liked FF compared to the other broswers out there.

[Musho]

Firefox 7 is using 113mb for me with 1 tab open. Not sure what all the memory fuss is all about. And this is with a few addons installed as well. Anyway, I thought this version was supposed to make each tab/plugin run in a separate process like chrome, but it obviously hasn't been implemented. Does anyone know when that will get implemented? Thanks!

[M.Beier]

Newsflash, RAM is cheap. Go install 12GB + and stop whining!

Newsflash;
Post 8GB on laptops with 2 DIMM wont happen anno 2011.