Mozilla Announces Long Term Support Version of Firefox

mvar writes "After a meeting held last Monday regarding Mozilla Firefox Extended Support Release, the new version was announced yesterday in a post on Mozilla's official blog: 'We are pleased to announce that the proposal for an Extended Support Release (ESR) of Firefox is now a plan of action. The ESR version of Firefox is for use by enterprises, public institutions, universities, and other organizations that centrally manage their Firefox deployments. Releases of the ESR will occur once a year, providing these organizations with a version of Firefox that receives security updates but does not make changes to the Web or Firefox Add-ons platform.'"

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[hairyfeet]

I don't use Chrome so your comparison is kinda pointless isn't it? I use Comodo dragon which doesn't have any bling and to which I choose to add Adblock plus and ForecasetFox. As far as NoScript while i personally miss that level of control since i've just about completed switching to Windows 7 which means Dragon runs in low rights mode I have to wonder how much it would help security anyway. BTW unlike FF Dragon has remained consistent both in performance and in support of different CPUs across releases which i can NOT say for Firefox since 3.x. Dragon is 100% CPU agnostic, so if a page takes X amount of CPU and memory in Intel it takes the same in AMD, but in FF you'll get better numbers from a first generation Pentium 4 than you will a brand new multicore AMD. That tells me there is something seriously fucked up in the Mozilla build process and when its bad enough that you gain 30% battery life on a new AMD netbook simply by switching to ANY other browser than Firefox? To quote the old K's choice song "Something's wrong".

FF USED to be consistent, it USED to be predictable and while it wasn't the greatest on CPU or memory usage at least you knew with each release things were getting better, sometimes a little better, sometimes a lot. Now its completely unpredictable with extensions breaking and CPU spiking and memory usage all over the place and inconsistent usage based on CPU arch. I hope they fix it but frankly i'm not holding my breath, but the simple fact you automatically assume that i must be using Chrome just shows what I've been saying for years, this treating corporations like fucking ballclubs to be cheered or booed REALLY needs to stop. We have a wealth of choices now and if Mozilla refuses to listen folks vote with their feet, full stop. the fact that Mozilla has been going down every single month for quite awhile tells me they are on the wrong track, whether they will heed those numbers or keep ignoring the users is the question.