Firefox 3 Plans and IE8 Speculation

ReadWriteWeb writes "Information about the next versions of Firefox and Internet Explorer suggest that the two biggest browsers are heading in different directions. Mozilla has published a wiki page detailing its plans for the next version of Firefox, codenamed 'Gran Paradiso'. Among the mandatory requirements listed for FF3 are improving the add-on experience, providing an extensible bookmarks back-end platform, adding more support for web services "to act as content handlers" — all of which show that Firefox wants to be an independent information broker rather than a simple HTML renderer in its next version. Also in the works is Microsoft's IE8. According to ActiveWin.com, a Microsoft official at CES told them that work has already begun for IE 8 and it may be released as a final product 'within 18-24 months'. Looking ahead, it's obvious that IE will continue to hook into the advanced functionality that Vista offers."

Comments

Re:Fit and Finish?

[Nocturnal Deviant]

meh i use camino, safari doesent have tabs -.-, but camino doesent have my precious add ons ='(, well im going to be making this mac use linux soon so, who cares.

Re:That old saying about SMPT

[Anonymous Coward]

Hopefully by the time Firefox 3 is out, they'll have fixed the memory leak problem.

Re:Main priority

[Nappa48]

They should focus in memory in all aspects, for example: MEMORY MANAGEMENT.
Windows Media Player 7 used less memory and had less leaks than Failfox has. I have to close the crap down every hour or so because it goes from 30%~ RAM to 90%~ (YES i'm serious)
Its terrible! And this is WITH and WITHOUT extensions and on other computers. Hell even different operating systems!
If they don't improve it by 3, they can go to hell for all i care, i'm done with their excuses.