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Mozilla Firefox 1.5.0.4 Released
KrayzieKyd writes "God Bless Mozilla. Firefox has just notified me that Firefox version 1.5.0.4 has just been released with release notes and according to Mozilla's website, the same has been released for Thunderbird with its own release notes."
Are we getting slashdot articles for each verion bump of the mozilla products?
Well, we seem to get slashdot articles about every MSIE security flaw; by that standard a new release of FireFox which fixes 12 security flaws (5 of them rated "critical") is certainly slashdotworthy.
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I thought one of the benefits of Firefox 1.5 was incremental updates i.e. patches that that are in the 100s of KBs range. However, watching the progress meter for this latest update it will have eventually downloaded 6.1MB, which is basically the full version of Firefox.
I've got a fever and the only prescription is more COBOL.
Is it just me or are the menus like 4 times faster at least? Or is it this patch changes firefox so that my old registry tweak setting windows menu paint dealy from 400ms to 0ms now being recognized by FF? I'ts not a simple memory leak fix because I have 1.5 gigs and I never noticed FF slowing down after long term use.
Or am I just crazy and nothing changed at all? maybe it was the extention update to cute menus cyrstal SVG
I used to hear a lot about such "memory management" issues, and a lot of them turned out to be lack of knowledge about configuration options regarding firefox's memory cache and page history cache sizes. Some issues are there besides these easily manageble ones, no debate about that, but most of them only come up after firefox running continuously for days (for me that is sometimes 1-2 weeks), which makes them unnoticable for most home users. Still, it would be good to solve these issues someday.
I am putting myself to the fullest possible use, which is all I can think that any conscious entity can ever hope to do.
...And now they're forcing the "mozilla has been updated" page to load on startup on my other two Firefox profiles EVERY TIME - DESPITE MY ACTUAL HOMEPAGE!! What the hell is going on!?
"And I'm already tired of Mozilla team not addressing the most critical issue - memory hogging."
Actually Mozilla team and the contributors have done much work to address the memory problems but the fixes for those are mainly coming on Firefox 2.0 and Firefox 3.0.
Based on my own experiences I think one of the main offenders for memory leaks are browser plugins like Macromedia Flash. But YMMV.
This reflects much more on your CRAPTASTIC bank than on the wide distribution of Firefox.
Any bank that still has been restricting access to IE only during the last two years (many would say even longer than that) should be beaten unconscious and shot, given IEs widely known rather big insecurity issues (sure, Firefox also has its share of issues, but it's nowhere near as severe, often and unpatched as is IE).
What, online banking, using IE? Eeeeeeckck!!
If Thunderbird transitions to universal binaries in the same way Firefox has just done, then from the next release it will be universal only, and the updater will map PPC-->Universal and Universal-->Universal.
I like FireFox, but it can consume a lot of RAM on any operating system. I've gotten it up to 700MB in Linux before. Tabs are a both a blessing and a curse.
You know this flamebait made me think, which almost caused me to have a stroke, so try not to let it happen again. I wanted to compare the two browsers to see just how much of a memory leak I get from FF.
I started with FF with my normal three tabs each with a different site open. I pulled up taskmanager and looked at all running processes. There was firefox at 31 meg.
So then I open IE6. Since I rarely use it I haven't changed the default home page from MSN. I check taskmanager, again. iexplore starts up using 45 meg. So I think maybe it's because of the website. I point IE6 at google. Sure enough the RAM usage goes down to 42 meg. To be fair however I thought I should open the three sites I have open in my FF tabs in IE.
iexplore.exe ---> 42,976k
iexplore.exe ---> 24,444k
iexplore.exe ---> 38,408k
Total iexplore.exe RAM usage 105,828k
Firefox with the same sites open in three tabs ---> 31,776k
If firefox is leaking on my machine it's into a big bucket called iexplore.exe
Beer! It's what's for breakfast!
I am currently using Bon Echo Alpha 3 . I tried 1.5.0.4 and it seems much stabler and faster than 1.5.0.3 but it seems to me that Bon echo is still the best firefox version, It seriously is awesome.
Copyright infringement is "piracy" in the same way DRM is "consumer rape"
Considering that privacy and security are big concerns for every large software project these days, I believe that Firefox's default update setting should be changed. If you go to Tools --> Options --> Advanced --> Update, and you haven't changed your default settings, you will find that it is set to "Automatically download and install the update". Even Microsoft wouldn't do this, so why is it acceptable in Firefox? It should default to "Ask me what I want to do.", and during the first update, a checkbox should be provided asking the user if he wants automatic updates from then on.
My 2 cents.
LS
There is a fine line between being a cultivated citizen and being someone else's crop. - A. J. Patrick Liszkie
Fixing "memory hogging" generally require significant architecture changes. This is not the sort of thing you get on a x.x.x.1 release.
I'm sure they're addressing this issue as it is easily now the #1 complaint about Mozilla. I recall it having memory issues even before plugins and the memory-hogging history-full-page-store feature (the one where you hit "back" and the page is just supposed to pop up, not re-render or re-request), but those two issues have magnified the issue into something that can't be ignored or poo-poo'ed anymore; I, too, will often see my Firefox hovering around the 600MB mark, and I recently installed that memory leak test tool and it didn't come up often at all.
Probably ought to shut off that feature; doesn't seem to do much for me anyhow.