Meet Firefox 4.0.1

[escobar_]

is it just me ? firefox is really using 600mb of ram? :o

I believe it's you. :whistle:

[DaRkMaDnEsS]

well at my worst day my firefox hit 200mb use of memory so 600mb is way off the limit

[Kriz]

163mb for me.. A few lagging issues and sometimes a slight crash on loading, but expected at this stage :)

[dnast]

I'm close to 500mb right now on someone else's pc running beta 8. About 15 tabs open.

[kizuran]

On a side note:

Has anyone else had issues with bookmarks using b8? For ex:

#1. losing any / all existing bookmarks in your profile after your update to b8. :cry:

and

#2. bookmarks imported from backed-up json or html file(s) show up when you click on bookmark navigation button in browser window, but don't appear when using Bookmark Manager / "Show All Bookmark" menu. :crazy:

<Now you see them...>

<Now you don't...>

and

#3. any new bookmarked pages using b8 disappear when closing ff & starting new session (with saved tabs or otherwise). :angry:

[kilara1988]

No such problems at all here.First i updated from b7 and then did clean install.No lost bookmarks after the update.Also bookmarked pages with b8 don't disappear.Try making a new profile or doing clean install.

[Kyang]

is it just me ? firefox is really using 600mb of ram? :o

I was close to that a few days ago. There were about 20-30 tabs, about 8 of them were YouTube pages, and I had them all sorted in Panorama in 3-5 different groups.

EDIT:

No bookmark issues here.

[Chaltalian]

I was close to that a few days ago. There were about 20-30 tabs, about 8 of them were YouTube pages, and I had them all sorted in Panorama in 3-5 different groups.

EDIT:

No bookmark issues here.

Just curious, why did you have 8 YouTube pages open?

[iwod]

Again, memory issues will be fixed before Final which should lower memory usage by about 40%. Currently it is about the same as Chrome and Slightly more then Opera 11.

P.S - No issues here upgrading from Beta 7 to Beta 8 on five computers. Which version are you upgrading from?

[bogas04]

Okay , created new profile , back to ~290mb (2 apptabs , plus youtube etc)

[bogas04]

Strange , open new window , close it , u get save tabs dialog (twice sometimes) , even for new window dialogs like when sharing something on fb , twitter etc

a bug is filled?

[Kyang]

Just curious, why did you have 8 YouTube pages open?

I was watching a multi-part documentary. The uploader only had links to all the other parts in the first video, and Youtube's automatic related video thing doesn't always work right, so before I started watching, I found the rest of the videos and grouped them together. The only thing I didn't do was preload them.

[sanriver12]

most people have firefox 3.6 installed, why arent any instructions/recomendations on installing FF4?

i mean can they be installed side by side?, should i remove 3.6 first? if installed side by side and i dont like v4, can i uninstall it without mesing 3.6? (found the hard way, NO.)

if installed side by side, when ff4 reaches final, what to uninstall, or there's no need to...

[flexkeyboard]

most people have firefox 3.6 installed, why arent any instructions/recomendations on installing FF4?

i mean can they be installed side by side?, should i remove 3.6 first? if installed side by side and i dont like v4, can i uninstall it without mesing 3.6? (found the hard way, NO.)

if installed side by side, when ff4 reaches final, what to uninstall, or there's no need to...

If you're interested enough to try FF4 beta, then you're asking the wrong question. What you should do is read a little bit more. I know it's kinda hard, but me give you a head start. >>> http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/4.0b8/releasenotes/

[dnast]

Strange , open new window , close it , u get save tabs dialog (twice sometimes) , even for new window dialogs like when sharing something on fb , twitter etc

a bug is filled?

I was going to say that I saw it mentioned on Mozillazine forums, but I see that it was you that mentioned it, lol. Anyway, it works for me and I haven't come across a bug for that yet.

[bogas04]

I was going to say that I saw it mentioned on Mozillazine forums, but I see that it was you that mentioned it, lol. Anyway, it works for me and I haven't come across a bug for that yet.

haha! :p i faced it with new profile too

Steps :

Open new window

Close it

You see "save tabs , close tabs , cancel"

OR

Click Fb Share on a youtube video (after clicking share)

close the window that opens up (dialog window)

You see same thing

[thenaes]

Been using this beta more and I am starting to like it. It is a RAM hog, but it doesn't bother me at this point as it uses similar amount of RAM as Chrome does even in beta.

[thenaes]

Beta 8 so far seems stable enough to use on a daily basis. Really can't wait for the final... I think once that comes out Firefox will become my favorite browser once again.

[AndyD]

Hi guys. I decided to try this out due to some issues I've been having with Firefox 3. This browser is so much faster but the UI is different so I'm not sure how to handle some addins. For example...

Download status bar - there is no bottom bar now so don't know where to check for my downloads?

Scrapbook - I see no menu entry for this so not sure how to access it.

[AndyD]

Figured the above out. Sorry

[bogas04]

Figured the above out. Sorry

to have firefox 3 like look , u can use tabs on bottom and show menu bar

but i dont suggest that though

and for status bar , have this addon https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/235283/

[Kriz]

For some reason this beta freezes for me a few seconds after opening and stays that way for about 5 sec or less. Each and everytime.

I thought it could be xmarks, and disabled it, but firefox still freezes. anyone else have this problem? or knwo how to fix it?

thanks

Same, althought im using Speed Dial, i thought it may have been that..

[DexMorgan]

You should run firefox in safe mode (accessible from start menu directory) or try new profile

http://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/Managing%20profiles

One of those two should help.

[dert07]

For some reason this beta freezes for me a few seconds after opening and stays that way for about 5 sec or less. Each and everytime.

I thought it could be xmarks, and disabled it, but firefox still freezes. anyone else have this problem? or knwo how to fix it?

thanks

You can try disabling Hardware Acceleration in the Options and restart Firefox. Not sure if it will fix your problem since it only froze on a cold start for me but maybe it's worth a try.

There already is a bug that talks about Firefox freezing on cold start with Direct2D enabled so i hope it will be fixed soon.

[inactive]

I believe it's you. :whistle:

i don't think it's just him.

certain sites, namely 'www.themortalkombat.com' (the forums there etc) , seem to eat more and more ram the more you refresh the pages and it just keeps going higher and never seems to free any ram back up. that's one site i noticed there definitely seems to be a ram issue with.

other than that site... i seem to be fine for the most part although ram does seem to climb up if you got your browser open for a while as i am around 323MB as i type this with 10 tabs open. (i am sure my browser been running for roughly a 24hours off the top of my head with quite a few random site loads)

p.s.it even does it (i.e. the ram issues) with the stable Firefox v3.6.

Beta 8 so far seems stable enough to use on a daily basis. Really can't wait for the final... I think once that comes out Firefox will become my favorite browser once again.

Yeah i just used Firefox 4 BETA 8 (first time using Firefox 4 as i always used Firefox 3.6) and it's good enough to use as primary browser.

i just think in overall browser smoothness that Firefox beats the competition.