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The Future of Firefox
sebFlyte writes "As Firefox moves swiftly towards 1.1 and Internet Explorer keeps trundling towards IE7, ZDNet UK has an interesting set of articles about Mozilla. Among other things, they look at the history of Firefox all the way from the pre-phoenix days, and have an interview with chief evangelist Asa Dotzler looking at what has driven the browsers success and why he thinks the release of IE7 will cause a massive boost in the uptake of Firefox."
an article to go nicely with the story http://netscape.com.com/Opera,+Firefox+squabble+ov er+best-browser+claim/2100-1032_3-5740879.html
shows another side to the whole FF thing.
q[ I'd be happy if firefox can just fix the CPU hammering/memory leak with Flash by 2.0.]q
Given that the issue in question also occurs in IE, Safari, and any other browser with a flash plugin regardless of OS I'd guess that this is not a browser bug.
My guess is that it's a race condition inside the Flash code itself. It doesn't appear on all systems, even if they are running the same OS/browser/flash revision (and viewing the same content).
At least with Firefox you can install Flashblock and not be annoyed by CPU gobbling flash unless you really want it.
Actually, the downloads are only for new installs. The upgrade servers are not counted. There was an article here on slashdot talking about that, but I'm too lazy to look it up. It was when firefox released version 1.0.
What are we going to do tonight Brain?
Coding misstep forces new Firefox release
http://news.com.com/Coding+misstep+forces+new+Fir
well....at least we have extensions.... here's my list:
TextZoom - because I'm blind as a bat
Adblock - use with Filterset.G from http://www.pierceive.com
Session Saver - saves tab sessions _when_ firefox crashes
Web Developer - lot of web dev options
IE View - click to view in IE
Target Alert - let's me know what I'm clicking on
ForecastFox - show forecast
FindBar Switch - makes the find bar toogle hide/un-hide with CTRL+F
Download Statusbar - much better than the download window/popup
SpellBound - because my spelling sux
Uhh, show me any news stories about "exploits" in the wild. What you hear are security flaws that have been found due to the source being open and then promptly being fixed.
Using the word exploits seems to indicate that there are malicious websites out there taking advantage of a security hole. There may very well be, I just don't remember hearing about it.
Try removing all your extentions. I had a number that weren't exactly compatible from version to version that were causing a number of problems.
kashani
- Why is the ninja... so deadly?
> Microsoft bought Spyglass and
No, they did not, quite the opposite, they tricked them into doing the work for free.
MS contracted Spyglass to write IE from Mosaic but the payment was to be $5.00 for every copy of IE _sold_. When they 'gave it away' they did not need to pay Spyglass anything.
Spyglass sued and lost. MS insisted that it was never 'sold' even when it was an unremovable part of Windows that was sold.