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Mozilla Teases First Browser Dedicated To Devs
hypnosec writes Mozilla has teased a browser for developers — a first of its kind — in a bid to equip developers with a set of tools at one place for better and enhanced productivity. Speaking about the perils of web development Mozilla says engineers, while building for the web, use a range of tools that don't always work well together. Because of this, they have to switch between platforms. This process of switching from one platform to another makes a developer less productive, Mozilla says. The not-for-profit organization hasn't detailed its browser for developers to a great extent, but has revealed that the browser will be available on November 10.
Unless it can run multiple browser engines I'm not sure how much application switching it will prevent.
There aren't just one or two people reporting memory leaks with Firefox. There are lots of people reporting these problems, even if some people don't experience them.
I don't think it's a "meme". I don't think it's people trolling. I see these comments all over the place online. I hear of similar experiences in person from co-workers, friends and relatives. This comes up far too much to just be a coincidence.
When people are reporting that fresh installations of the most recent version of Firefox end up consuming multiple gigabytes of memory after moderate browsing, then something is clearly wrong. Maybe it isn't broken on your system, and maybe it isn't broken on the systems of the Firefox developers, but it's apparently broken on the systems of a great many end users.
Yet instead of doing the responsible thing and accepting that there is in fact some sort of a problem, members of the Mozilla community (such as yourself) end up denying the problem exists, and then you ridicule everyone who does suffer from it. Sometimes you blame it on "extensions", even when the users are using a fresh installation of Firefox without any installed!
Responding to what's very likely a completely real problem in that manner only drives users away from Firefox. That's part of the reason why Firefox is only at around 10% of the browser market at this time, with that number continually dropping. It's because Mozilla doesn't listen to the users any longer, and the wider Mozilla community treats many other Firefox users with complete disrespect.
Users don't want to deal with bugs like memory leaks in the first place, and users don't want to deal with a hostile response when they report such problems. They'll just go and use Chrome instead, which doesn't even suffer from these problems in the first place, and which is also really easy to download and install.
Instead of responding how you just did, you and others in the Mozilla community need to acknowledge that this problem exists, acknowledge that others may be affected by it even if you aren't, and you need to try to help find a solution to these problems that doesn't involve ridicule and denial.
If Mozilla and the greater Mozilla community doesn't change their ways, then we won't be talking about how Firefox is only at 10% of the market. We'll be talking about how Firefox is at 3% of the market, assuming Mozilla still even exists as an organization at that point.