Mozilla Releases Firefox 3 Beta 4

Somecallmechief writes "Firefox 3 Beta 4 is now available for download. This is the twelfth developer milestone focused on testing the core functionality provided by many new features and changes to the platform scheduled for Firefox 3. Ongoing planning for Firefox 3 can be followed at the Firefox 3 Planning Center, as well as in mozilla.dev.planning and on irc.mozilla.org in #granparadiso."

Comments

first memory leak post

[Anonymous Coward]

did they fix THE memory leak?

Re:first memory leak post

[Klaidas]

I find it interesting how the parent post is modded "-1, Flamebait" at the moment. Sure, there is stuff to read about the leak, and plans to read about fixing that "leak", and he might have been a little too ignorant to read those. But come on, "flamebait"?
If we could tag comments, this would pretty much be "hurtetdsomeonesfeelings"

Re:first memory leak post

[LMacG]

Your sense of humor called; it says it's having a wonderful time on holiday and is thinking of just never coming back.

Re:first memory leak post

[Anonymous Coward]

On rare occasions, commercial software is ahead of open source, and we just have to learn to do without certain features that we don't have the rights to.

While it's not immediately clear who first codified the memory leak, but the code is now owned by SCO.
So if things get a little leaky after surfing those pron sites, you'd better pay up.

It would be very cute to have a colorful 3D animated plugin to reorder and adjust your favorite memory leaks, but this has already been patented and is expected to be a key feature of Windows 7.
Before you get your hopes up too high, you'd better start saving up for a polycore 35 nm CPU.
We're talking major leak acceleration!

Microsoft is working hard to insure ACID compatibility. While they don't officially encourage employees to get high, they've found it helps to get a special blend of essential trace drugs in their drinking water. Even software developers can go green, or turn green, or at least yellow.. They're now processing the wastewater from the local jails and mental hospitals to make drinking water. This special Washington blend ensures that programmers can stay awake and also cope with post-Vista depression.

Re:first memory leak post

[jamstar7]

You must be old here...

Oh, wait...

Re:Anti Virus

[pdragon04]

It's called "being considerate" and "playing nice with others". I know... novel concepts around these parts.

Re:Been using it for 2 days now OSX

[Anonymous Coward]

Oh I know what you mean.

It takes AGES to load up on my TRS-80 Color Computer.

I went to Radio Shack and bitched about it, but the rep acted like I was crazy and basically ignored me. But you know how those guys are.

Re:Fucking idiot

[MrNaz]

Yea! And all those Windows users should also be ashamed of themselves for not using IE! And don't even get me started on Linux users who don't use Lynx. Using Linux with a graphical program! How irresponsible!

wget the picture?

[newr00tic]

don't even get me started on Linux users who don't use Lynx. Using Linux with a graphical program! How irresponsible! Linux users should use wget with 'convert-links-to-locally-correspond' -flags.. ;)

Re:first post

[XenoPhage]

Sorry, no FP. But Firefox 3 is da bomb! Oh, wonderful.. Now how am I going to get through airport security?

Re:Same bugs?

[MrNaz]

Half a megabyte of source?! What kind of pages are you looking at? ASCII pron?

Re:First question

[fmangeant]

I totally agree : on my 32 bit PC, Firefox uses only 2 Gb RAM !

With a 64 bit version of Firefox, it could use a lot more.

Division of responsibility

[xant]

This is good, but can't we put the responsibility on the system where it *really* belongs? Viruses, not Firefox, should inform the AV system when malicious code is about to executed.

Re:Anti Virus

[The Mighty Buzzard]

Maybe, but waiting for my av to finish scanning the porn I download is annoying.