For Firefox 4, You'll Need To Wait Until 2011

Posted by timothy on Thursday October 28, 2010 @06:59AM from the they-wanted-a-prime-number dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Mozilla said that it will not be releasing Firefox 4 RC, or the final version, before early 2011. Apparently, the bugfixes in the current beta take up much more time than anticipated. Mozilla is working on the feature freeze release Beta 7, which has 14 bugs left. The beta 7 is about six weeks behind schedule and will be released 'when it is ready,' according to Mozilla. It seems as if the original schedule, which estimated that Firefox 4 RC would be released in the second half of October was a bit too optimistic. Microsoft, by the way, released a new IE9 platform preview (PP6) at PDC 20910 today."

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Re:Memory hogging, CPU hogging. by clang_jangle · 2010-10-28 07:54 · Score: 0, Troll

The last really stable version of Firefox was called Firebird 0.7. It amazes me that it's become so popular when it's such a horrible resource pig. Were it not for the video downloader add-on I'd never use it at all.

Then again, most people are stuck using Windows, and Internet Exploder sets a mighty low bar...

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Re:Anybody remember if... by inode_buddha · 2010-10-28 07:55 · Score: 0, Troll

For what its worth, my *entire machine* has 512 megs, and FF 3.6 runs just fine. I leave it up for days with a few tabs, video is just fine, etc. Using Fedora 12 with a few tweaks to sysctl.

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