Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.8 Released

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Elliot B.

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Any news for FF3?
The development name for Mozilla Firefox 3 is Gran Paradiso. The precursory releases are codenamed "Minefield", as this is the name of the trunk builds. "Gran Paradiso" (trans. "Great Paradise"), like other Firefox development names, is an actual place; in this case the highest mountain group in the Graian Alps. A (November 2006) post on the Mozilla Wiki "Release Roadmap" from President of Products Christopher Beard suggests a release in November 2007. A release and development schedule is available on Mozilla's website.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firefox#Version_3.0

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Smigit

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Firefox

Sep 18, 2007 - Sep 24, 2007 45.84%

Sep 25, 2007 - Oct 1, 2007 46.19%

Internet Explorer

Sep 18, 2007 - Sep 24, 2007 46.42%

Sep 25, 2007 - Oct 1, 2007 46.07%

Opera

Sep 18, 2007 - Sep 24, 2007 3.89%

Sep 25, 2007 - Oct 1, 2007 3.79%

Safari

Sep 18, 2007 - Sep 24, 2007 2.82%

Sep 25, 2007 - Oct 1, 2007 2.91%

^ Pulled from a very popular website.

Yay for Firefox.

What site? I don't think it's so much about the site being large, more about the user base being broad. For example I'd say Neowin is a large site but I wouldn't call any browser statistics taken from this site as meaning a lot in the general scheme of things due to the more technically minded audience Neowin attracts (also probably results in a larger Linux/Mac user base percentage wise than most sites too).
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They are never going to fix all memory leaks unless they stop working on new features and focus on bugs. (and I mean in the entirety, not just a temporary thing)

Of course it's large memory usage has nothing to do with leaks, if that's what you're talking about.

What about in normal use, then out of nowhere its using 260+MB?

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Smigit

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They are never going to fix all memory leaks unless they stop working on new features and focus on bugs. (and I mean in the entirety, not just a temporary thing)

Of course it's large memory usage has nothing to do with leaks, if that's what you're talking about.

Even large usage shouldnt see the browser going above 1gig of ram being used, something I've had happen many times. They need a better way to manage memory, it shouldnt be allowed to grow uncapped and bring a system to it's knees. If that means unloading certain tabs memory to a cache file and loading it back up later so be it, but dont take over half the systems available ram.

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What about in normal use, then out of nowhere its using 260+MB?

That's not a memory leak, that's it just using a lot of memory (if it knows about the memory, it hasn't leaked)

Even large usage shouldnt see the browser going above 1gig of ram being used, something I've had happen many times. They need a better way to manage memory, it shouldnt be allowed to grow uncapped and bring a system to it's knees. If that means unloading certain tabs memory to a cache file and loading it back up later so be it, but dont take over half the systems available ram.

1GB, wtf?

It's never gone over 300MB* for me, no matter how many tabs or extensions I have, you've got something wrong there.

* Once it had an actual leak, and it allocated 2GB of VM ram in like 30 seconds.

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1GB, wtf?
Yeah thats what I said. :laugh:

But it's happened a few times to me on different systems over about 18 months (although I dont think it has lately), with or without extensions. Usually when browsing galleries since I tend to open the tabs then go look at the images. I certainly don't have 1gig of data loaded but firefox's memory usage surges up into that area until I have to force it to shut down or reboot.

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