Gran Paradiso Alpha 3

kbrosnan writes "Gran Paradiso Alpha 3 is a release of the Gecko rendering engine for testing purposes only. Here are the release notes. While this release uses the interface of Firefox, no significant interface changes have been made. These alpha releases focus on making improvements to the core elements: graphics, JavaScript, page rendering, etc."

Comments

Re:So..

[Jeffrey Baker]

If they "fixed" this "leak", the other bunch of fucknozzles would come back asking "Why are back and forward so slow?!??". I think for the time being you people are slightly less annoying, so the "leak" stays.

Re:Changes.

[gerrysteele]

Perhaps someday soon they might invent some innovative technology to update you of these events.

I would call it "The Status Bar".

Re:Release notes and comments

[CRCulver]

This is the common usage pattern. Uptime on desktop or notebook computers is generally low, and so Joe Average is not too likely to keep Firefox open for days or weeks and notice problematic memory usage. However, Joe Average would certainly notice sluggishness in the workings of the Back button.

Even Mozilla guys ignore non-x86 Linux

[cyba]

There's only single "Linux" download link that refers to Linux/x86 binary. If leading Free Software project doesn't treat non-x86 platforms seriously, how can we expect something different from e.g. hardware manufacturers?

Re:Bug!

[Nasarius]

So file it if it's not there already. That's what the alpha is for.

Re:So..

[Man of E]

Other browsers have shown (Opera, Safari) that it's possible to have speedy back and forward buttons without taking up a gig of memory. You can claim that the Firefox back-forward code is so poorly written that it would have to be redone from the ground up, and that the developers consider a new spellchecker to be higher-priority than a time-consuming rewrite of this memory-hogging component. But please don't pretend that this is an intrinsic trade-off in browser design.