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Firefox 6 Ships Next Week, 8 Blocks Sneaky Add-Ons

Posted by Soulskill on from the seven-due-the-week-after dept.

CWmike writes "Mozilla is on track to release Firefox 6 next week, according to notes posted on the company's website. 'On track with a few bugs still remaining. No concerns for Tuesday,' the notes stated. Firefox 6 includes several noticeable changes, including highlighting domain names in the address bar — both Chrome and Microsoft's Internet Explorer 9 do something similar by boldfacing domain names — and reducing startup time when users rely on Panorama, the browser's multi-tab organizer. Meanwhile, Mozilla said this week that starting with Firefox 8, Mozilla will automatically block browser add-ons until users approve them, which should put an end to sneaky installs."

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  1. Bugs, memory leaks, and poor performance. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    I got fed up with Firefox's horrible memory leaks and poor performance way back at Firefox 2, and have used alternate browsers since then. But after hearing about Firefox 5 being released, I figured that I'd give it a go.

    What a mistake! Firefox 5 hasn't improved at all. The memory leaks are still there, and they're far worse now. I used it for a couple of hours, and its memory use was over 7 GB. Luckily, I've got 16 GB, so 7 GB wasn't that painful. Still, it was totally unacceptable for a web browser to ever use that much memory.

    The performance pales in comparison to Chrome, Safari, and even IE. It felt slow, while the others feel fast and responsive.

    I just don't get it. They've had years upon years to improve the situation, but it isn't getting any better. It's getting much worse, in fact! All of the other browsers are getting better. Why isn't Firefox? Why does it keep getting worse?