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Just tried again for the 10th time and it downloaded this time... weird

[1for-matik]

Zlip792, on 12 August 2011 - 08:26, said:

Another memory bug fix fixed (soon in Nightly - maybe land in FF7 as well).
https://bugzilla.moz...g.cgi?id=678422

Read Comment 2:
Some for Nightly users:

That's a good step forward for Firefox, but it can be better...

I just ran a bench to compare browsers with the very big page in bug 678376 and :

- Firefox 8.0a1 before patch jump to 2.0 GB of ram used
- Firefox 8.0a1 after patch lose exactly 700MB and stabilize at 1.3 GB of RAM

but...

- Latest Chrome canary build and dev (15.0.849.0) stay at 1.1GB
- Webkit2Process of Safari 5.1 used 1.05 GB
- Internet Explorer 9.0.2 (with all patch) stay at 838 MB

and the winner is :

- Latest Opera Next 12.00 use only... 727 MB

[Zlip792]

1for-matik, on 12 August 2011 - 23:11, said:

That's a good step forward for Firefox, but it can be better...

I just ran a bench to compare browsers with the very big page in bug 678376 and :

- Firefox 8.0a1 before patch jump to 2.0 GB of ram used
- Firefox 8.0a1 after patch lose exactly 700MB and stabilize at 1.3 GB of RAM

but...

- Latest Chrome canary build and dev (15.0.849.0) stay at 1.1GB
- Webkit2Process of Safari 5.1 used 1.05 GB
- Internet Explorer 9.0.2 (with all patch) stay at 838 MB

and the winner is :

- Latest Opera Next 12.00 use only... 727 MB

Lets wait, once all P1 Mem Bugs fixed, it will use really lower RAM. Incremental GC and some others are ready to go but Developers holding back to land them in FF9 (since chances are their that FF9 uses MSVC2010).

Another Memory bug fixed:
https://bugzilla.moz...g.cgi?id=673795

FF8 got another feature after Tab detach animation:
https://bugzilla.moz...g.cgi?id=596343

[dnast]

^ Nice!

A similar add-on bug landed, as well: Bug 476430.

[Zlip792]

^Sorry I missed that. Thanks for sharing here.

[BetaAddict]

dnast, on 13 August 2011 - 03:09, said:

^ Nice!

A similar add-on bug landed, as well: Bug 476430.

Why switch to full tab-size notification? When are they going to start using the notification bar-type popups you see in chrome and IE9? These are far less intrusive and better streamlined.

[Kevin Flynn]

Firefox 6 final is up on the FTP server if anyone is interested:

ftp://ftp.mozilla.or...x/releases/6.0/

[remixedcat]

BetaAddict, on 13 August 2011 - 08:27, said:

Why switch to full tab-size notification? When are they going to start using the notification bar-type popups you see in chrome and IE9? These are far less intrusive and better streamlined.

I thought so too seems weird how they wanted this.

[Heartripper]

BetaAddict, on 13 August 2011 - 08:27, said:

Why switch to full tab-size notification? When are they going to start using the notification bar-type popups you see in chrome and IE9? These are far less intrusive and better streamlined.

this is only for those addons installed by third-party application (es Avast webrep, Nokia synchronization, etc). With this window you can stop the installation (before it was not possible).

Moreover: addons.mozilla.org got redesigned!

[Zlip792]

I need little favour. Can anyone test this on FF6 or FF7?

• 1. Go to Options
• 2. First Tab "General"
• 3. In section "Addons" click on 'Manage Addons'

Result:
In Nightly, Addon Manager opens in new Window.

Expected:
It should open in New Tab

Once confirmed this annoyance, I will file a bug.

[random_]

Zlip792, on 13 August 2011 - 17:36, said:

I need little favour. Can anyone test this on FF6 or FF7?

• 1. Go to Options
• 2. First Tab "General"
• 3. In section "Addons" click on 'Manage Addons'

Result:
In Nightly, Addon Manager opens in new Window.

Expected:
It should open in New Tab

Once confirmed this annoyance, I will file a bug.

It also opens in new window on FF 7.0a2 (2011-08-13)

[iregados]

Zlip792, on 13 August 2011 - 17:36, said:

I need little favour. Can anyone test this on FF6 or FF7?

• 1. Go to Options
• 2. First Tab "General"
• 3. In section "Addons" click on 'Manage Addons'

Result:
In Nightly, Addon Manager opens in new Window.

Expected:
It should open in New Tab

Once confirmed this annoyance, I will file a bug.

confirmed FF8 (Nightly) Win 7 x64

[Jen Smith]

random_, on 13 August 2011 - 18:37, said:

It also opens in new window on FF 7.0a2 (2011-08-13)

Same here with that build, although I had to disable TabMixPlus to actually get that bug to occur.. never would have noticed otherwise.

[Zlip792]

Thanks a lot everyone.
Already, an old bug:
https://bugzilla.moz...g.cgi?id=565686

[mancode20]

With Firefox 7.0 about to be beta on the 16th, do we have any info about what's going on with the smooth animations for moving tabs? Like the way Chrome does it. Shouldn't this be landing in Aurora 8.0, or are they going to make us wait til 9.0? It seems like they have been working on it forever!! That's one of two features I miss from Chrome. Just give me smooth animations while moving tabs, improved smooth scrolling on all websites like Chrome has when using their extension, and I'll be very happy. Those are the two majors things it is missing. 7.0 is a huge step forward in terms of performance, memory management, etc. Now, it's time to give us some much needed features! Some nice bells and whistles would be appreciated. Like how come there isn't a word wrap feature? Is there an extension for that? I hate having to scroll over so much if I have the page zoomed in to read the text better from far away. Any news on smooth animations, or any cool and useful features coming soon?