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Weekly Browsers Recap, August 15th

By Vygantas | August 15, 2011 | 0 Comments

[Thanks, asknobody]

Firefox’s Memory Appetite Decreased By 20% To 30%

By Armin Seuchter | August 11, 2011 | 11 Comments

Firefox's Memory Appetite Decreased By 20% to 30% Firefox 7, set to ship in late September, will be quite a bit faster because of recent efforts to plug the browser’s memory leaks. Mozilla developer Nicholas Nethercote credited the “MemShrink” project for closing memory bugs in the browser and producing a faster Firefox. MemShrink was announced approximately two months ago.

Firefox 7 uses less memory than Firefox 6 (and 5 and 4): often 20% to 30% less, and sometimes as much as 50% less. This means that Firefox 7 is faster (sometimes drastically so) and less likely to crash, particularly if you have many websites open at once and/or keep Firefox running for a long time between restarts. - Nicholas Nethercote, programmer at Mozilla

Weekly Browsers Recap, August 8th

By Vygantas | August 8, 2011 | 8 Comments

Weekly Browsers Recap, August 1st

By Vygantas | August 1, 2011 | 1 Comment

[Thanks, RamaSubbu SK, Shane Bundy]

New Web Based Mobile OS By Mozilla On The Way

By Armin Seuchter | July 26, 2011 | 4 Comments

It appears as if Mozilla is planning on developing what is deemed a truly open source mobile operating system based on the web. An HTML5 based mobile OS, to be exact.
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Mozilla To Implement Multiprocess Browsing

By Armin Seuchter | July 20, 2011 | 37 Comments

Mozilla To Implement Multiprocess Browsing According to Christopher Blizzard, Mozilla’s Web platform director, via a blog post, Mozilla has renewed its efforts to bring multiprocess browsing to Firefox. The post stresses the key advantages that process isolation will transfer to Firefox and tackles some of the requirements for Mozilla’s implementation.

Although multiprocess browsing became a higher priority for Mozilla after the release of Firefox 4, it is still not clear when the feature might land. Current and upcoming versions of Firefox do not yet have the feature, so chances that the it might hit the public by the end of this year are slim.
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Firefox 8 (64 Bit) Picks Up The Pace

By Vygantas | July 19, 2011 | 0 Comments

Firefox 8 (64 Bit) Picks Up The Pace Good news for all the 64 bit software fans.

According to Armen Zambrano, the Release Engineer at Mozilla Corporation, with the introduction of a small set of Windows 2008 64-bit machines, Mozilla started cooking Firefox x86-64 nightly builds and has been doing so for more than a week now.

Furthermore, Asa Dotzler, Product Manager for the Firefox desktop browser, is now collecting feedback and expectations about the future 64 bit builds. In case you are interested in expressing your opinion as well, feel free to visit the following post.

The future looks pretty exciting and we can’t wait to see which of the web browser vendors is next.

Download Firefox 8 Pre-Alpha 1 (64 bit).

Weekly Browsers Recap, July 18th

By Vygantas | July 18, 2011 | 0 Comments

Firefox 5 Update To Fix Mac OS X Crash Bug

By Armin Seuchter | July 11, 2011 | 3 Comments

Firefox 5 Update To Fix OS X Crash Bug Firefox 5.0.1 will arrive shortly going by an announcement made by Mozilla. No release date was given, however. The update isn’t for Windows or Linux operating systems either, just for Mac OS X. This is because Lion i.e. Mac OS X 10.7 possesses a bug that makes Firefox 5 crash when showing websites that utilize downloadable fonts.

We alerted Apple to the problem before the release of 10.7 but they did not fix the problem before 10.7 went to final release. We’ve changed the font APIs that we’re using to newer versions which appear to fix the problem. The bug in Lion will cause severe crash problems for Firefox 5 users if it’s not fixed. - Christopher Blizzard, Mozilla’s Web platform director

Weekly Browsers Recap, July 4th

By Vygantas | July 4, 2011 | 0 Comments

[Thanks, Sebastian]