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Mozilla Starts To Follow a New Drumbeat
ChiefMonkeyGrinder writes "Key, then, to the Drumbeat project is openness, specifically openness as applied to the Internet. That fits in well with the original impulses behind Mozilla and Firefox. The former was about transforming the Netscape Communicator code into an open source browser, and the latter was about defending open standards from Microsoft's attempt to lock people into Internet Explorer 6 and its proprietary approaches. Both Mozilla and Firefox have succeeded, but the threats have now changed."
This is why I've finally dropped Firefox on my Mac.
It's been a great ride, and I thank them for what they've done. I still run it on my Work PC. (Until Google figures out how to make programs that run behind authenticated proxies).
But they've become just as complacent with their memory usage as Microsoft did with IE6 sucking. Only programs I've ever had use MORE were Photoshop when I'm doing batch processing of HDR images and VMWare when I've given the guest >1024MB of RAM, and even then, they don't beat Firefox by a large margin.
There will be times my computer is running slow as hell and I'll look up at memory usage and Firefox is above 800M, I'll kill it and start over.
Finally I had enough. I researched my 'Ad Block Plus' options and found Glimmer Blocker. It's set up as proxy which means I can use it with all Web Browsers. It supports most GreaseMonkey scripts as is. I can insert CSS, etc. Only downside (which is good) is that it doesn't do anything to https connections.
XMarks syncs all my bookmarks. LastPass syncs all my passwords and so right now Chromium and WebKit Nightly are getting 50/50 usage to see which one I like better.
Chromium has a bare minimum of extensions(XMarks, LastPass, Blank New Tab & Facebook fixer). Chrome just flys. Hell there would be times when I'd hav e Chromeium browsing the web. Safari on Youtube and Firefox having 0 windows open, but it still is managing to consume 600MB of RAM while Safari and Chromium aren't even in the top 10.
The *ONE* thing I thought I would miss the most was Firebug. Until I realized both Chromium/Chrome and Webkit/Safari have Javascript Profiling tools built in and other stuff that put Firebug to shame. I wouldn't be surprised if it's probably what Google uses to develop most of their stuff.
I've left both browsers up for days and fired up an occasional firefox and after 20 minutes I watch my little menu bar graph creep up until my computer was swapping and being slow.
If IE and Chrome can play perfectly-smooth flash video, but Firefox makes it stutter, QA SHOULD HAVE CAUGHT THAT SHIT!
How about they roll up their sleeves and do REAL work: find and fix the major glitches. That is more important than vague mission statements.
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