It's just a numbers race, really. Firefox seem to be the worst offender, which is quite surprising to me.

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In reply to a post by Chrysalis:

bartab fixes the delay, fixes the stalls (by forcing idle tabs to unload).
crashes I found using the plugin container options help, I have flash load in the container which also stops flash videos from stuttering as well.
I think a lot of firefox problems stem from the fact they still having everything share 1 process, by default the entire firefox gui, garbage colelction, tabs, browsing etc. all runs under 1 process. Both chrome and IE stopped doing this ages ago.

I can understand why people have given FF the boot as a lot of its issues are long standing that get ignored by the dev's.

Should not have to use a add on for poor coding.

agreed and it is actually still buggy the addon, not fixed as I thought with the workaround although browser is useable it is a bit of a joke the situation. Firefox to me without bartab the way I use the browser is unuseable as it would consume many gigs of ram and be stuttering on everything.

The difference here is that FreeBSD is real software, not a toy. People want performance, stability, and reliability from FreeBSD. They don't care what the button to change the font colour looks like.

you may see firefox as a toy but i dont.

browsers are used a lot these days, especially with the emergence of web apps as well.

clearly opinion is split but surprisingly I am even seeing web developers now shouting out against the policy, the 2 main reasons given are.

1 - firefox will have fragmented userbase split across many versions which display web pages differently as updated every 8 weeks. So harder to support firefox than say IE.
2 - a consistent browser behaviour is more important that strict complaince to standards, ie. better to have a browser that wont be changing how it reads code every 2 months even tho it may not be as compliant.

Edited by Chrysalis (Tue 16-Aug-11 11:20:30)

just spent 10 mins wondering why tesco order wouldnt submit, in firefox5. Tried in ff 3.6 and worked first time hmmmm.

yes I am not on 6, as it took me 2 months to test 5, havent had time to test 6 yet.

I use a number of sites where the popup for the credit card extra check only works in Internet Explorer

Edited by deleted (Tue 16-Aug-11 19:24:14)

In reply to a post by micksharpe:

Maybe they want to catch up with IE version numbers, in which case they have a long way to go.

i think they are more worried about Chrome than IE.

In reply to a post by Sark:

what improvements do these Firefox updates really bring that could not be put into say 4.6 instead of going to version 5

What difference does it make whether they call it v4.6 or v5.0?

every time they do what they call a main update, they stop even more add ons working. when they just done 3.5 to 3.6 the add ons was not affected.

Just been "fed" FF 7 beta.

A couple of little used add-ons not functioning.

FF have been feeding me FF6 as an update all week. Grr.