Elliot B. Posted October 19, 2007 Share Posted October 19, 2007 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 Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/595063-mozilla-firefox-2008-released/page/2/#findComment-588930604 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Smigit Posted October 19, 2007 Share Posted October 19, 2007 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). Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/595063-mozilla-firefox-2008-released/page/2/#findComment-588930615 Share on other sites More sharing options...
AgEnTsMiTh Posted October 19, 2007 Share Posted October 19, 2007 Starts up faster for me now. Previous version would hang from time to time and could never figure out why. Click on icon, its open. Very happy thus far. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/595063-mozilla-firefox-2008-released/page/2/#findComment-588930617 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Premgenius Posted October 19, 2007 Share Posted October 19, 2007 Updated, Thanks. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/595063-mozilla-firefox-2008-released/page/2/#findComment-588930621 Share on other sites More sharing options...
xpgeek Posted October 19, 2007 Share Posted October 19, 2007 Updated. :) Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/595063-mozilla-firefox-2008-released/page/2/#findComment-588930645 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nashy Posted October 19, 2007 Share Posted October 19, 2007 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? Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/595063-mozilla-firefox-2008-released/page/2/#findComment-588930784 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Smigit Posted October 19, 2007 Share Posted October 19, 2007 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. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/595063-mozilla-firefox-2008-released/page/2/#findComment-588930806 Share on other sites More sharing options...
DR3AMxCATCHER Posted October 19, 2007 Share Posted October 19, 2007 Auto-Dated for me. :) Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/595063-mozilla-firefox-2008-released/page/2/#findComment-588931003 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pretend Posted October 19, 2007 Share Posted October 19, 2007 I'll Auto-Update but I want Firefox 3.0 more :( Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/595063-mozilla-firefox-2008-released/page/2/#findComment-588931021 Share on other sites More sharing options...
The_Decryptor Veteran Posted October 19, 2007 Veteran Share Posted October 19, 2007 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. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/595063-mozilla-firefox-2008-released/page/2/#findComment-588931041 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Echilon Posted October 19, 2007 Share Posted October 19, 2007 Cheers. Updated. (Y) Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/595063-mozilla-firefox-2008-released/page/2/#findComment-588931140 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Smigit Posted October 19, 2007 Share Posted October 19, 2007 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. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/595063-mozilla-firefox-2008-released/page/2/#findComment-588931186 Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrisgeleven Posted October 19, 2007 Share Posted October 19, 2007 Firefox 3.0 is supposed to handle memory better. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/595063-mozilla-firefox-2008-released/page/2/#findComment-588931228 Share on other sites More sharing options...
ranasrule Posted October 19, 2007 Share Posted October 19, 2007 best browser EVER !!! by far !!! Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/595063-mozilla-firefox-2008-released/page/2/#findComment-588931271 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Azmodan Posted October 19, 2007 Share Posted October 19, 2007 Go Firefox! Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/595063-mozilla-firefox-2008-released/page/2/#findComment-588931421 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rappy Veteran Posted October 19, 2007 Veteran Share Posted October 19, 2007 Firefox 3.0 is supposed to handle memory better. It will be interesting to see if it does but I find now I have 2gb memory that Firefox hardly uses. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/595063-mozilla-firefox-2008-released/page/2/#findComment-588932114 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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