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Firefox Plans Mass Marketing Drive

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the selling-what's-already-free dept.

Ivan Mark writes "Christopher Beard, the VP of products at Mozilla Corporation, told ZDNet UK on Monday that there is a 'strong likelihood' that Firefox 1.5, the next major version of the open source browser, will be released on 29 November. Beard said they are planning a 'big marketing push.' 'You will have real people telling you about Firefox's features-- what's cool and great,' said Beard. 'People can create the video and upload it to the Mozilla site. The video will then be reviewed and put on our Web site, with a link from their location.'"

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  1. Re:Firefox, Please Tame Your Memory Hunger by n0dalus · · Score: 4, Informative

    I hate it to restart with all those tabs open.

    Get SessionSaver.
    It will restore your open tabs on startup or after a crash. It is also great for when one of the plugins (flash, java, or maybe just Firefox itself) makes the browser slow down over time; after a lot of usage you can just close it and reopen Firefox -- with all your tabs but a fresh start on memory usage. This extension has almost entirely eliminated the need for bookmarks for me too.

  2. Firemonger by asciimonster · · Score: 5, Informative
    Would showing of the Firemonger CD also qualify for this competition?

    The Firemonger project is also boasting a lot of new features when it releases its FireFox & Thunderbird bundle. Just have a look at the cool new screenshots.

  3. The adblocker does it by Nice2Cats · · Score: 3, Informative

    The main reason I use Firefox on my Mac over the otherwise pretty good Safari is the adblocker plugin. Not having crap blink in my face on every second site, not having a little bit of text squeezed in between fat columns of ads for stuff I simply don't want, let alone need, has really changed my attitude towards the web in general. There is no way I am ever going back to a browser that doesn't support this feature. If you are thinking about testing Firefox -- get that plugin when you do.

  4. Re:Mod parent up by Thing+1 · · Score: 4, Informative
    I researched this the other day because I, too, was so fed up with Mozilla's slowness to come back up after having been minimized.

    Turns out there's a great answer:

    From http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/qa/archives/2005/10 /beta2_candidate_builds_availab.html

    [...] try setting the "config.trim_on_minimize" pref to "false"

    This is done by:

    1. Open new tab.
    2. Go to "about:config".
    3. Right-click, select New, Boolean.
    4. Type the variable name, "config.trim_on_minimize", hit Enter.
    5. Type "false", hit Enter.
    6. Exit and restart Mozilla.

    Now it won't free memory when it minimizes, which it generally takes 30-60 seconds (sometimes longer!) to restore when the user clicks on the task bar icon to bring it back up.

    --
    I feel fantastic, and I'm still alive.
  5. Maybe Session Saver would... by chester_br · · Score: 5, Informative

    In the (rare) occasions in which Firefox crashed on my Mac, Session Saver was a great helping hand (I don't use its automatic restore for every startup, just for browser crashes).

    Don't know whether it restores data such as server-session-id cookies (which would be needed to salvage this insurance app incident, for example), but having such an option available as a plugin is what made me stick to Firefox in both Windows and Mac OS X.

  6. Re:Firefox, Please Tame Your Memory Hunger by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Informative

    1) being worked on (GRE runtime)
    2) Firefox 1.5 supports incremental updates
    3) name it
    4) You don't have to. Mozilla keeps maintaining the suite (1.7), the Seamonkey project keeps improving the suite.
    5) Multitasking.