Happy Birthday Firefox, You're Now 7 Years Old!
Firefox has just turned seven years old.
Firefox has just turned seven years old. Following its initial release in 2004, the browser has altered the browser landscape and acquired substantial market share, but recently has, once again, become the underdog in a cut-throat browser war that is more and more fought between Google and Microsoft.
Firefox was originally part of the Mozilla application suite, but is now considered to be the core product of Mozilla. However, while Firefox is likely to remain the most popular application for some time, Mozilla earlier this year said that it will be looking to expand its reach beyond the plain browser, especially when it will introduce the Boot-to-Gecko OS in Q1 of 2012.
2011 has brought a massive shift for Firefox, not just because the introduction of a significantly different UI in Firefox 4, but especially because of the introduction of a rapid release cycle model that pays tribute to a widely deployed agile development method as well as the replacement of key personalities at Mozilla. Mike Beltzner, director of Firefox left the company shortly after the launch of Firefox 4; vice president Mike Shaver left to take a position at Facebook; and UI lead Alex Faaborg just recently announced his departure without revealing his destination.
In a brief note announcing the birthday of the browser, the organization noted that Firefox 8 is about 32 times faster than Firefox 1. Still, the overall market is changing even faster and Mozilla has had trouble keeping market share. Over the past 12 months, Firefox has lost close to five points of market share and will, most likely, be surpassed by Chrome this month, according to StatCounter's preliminary data. For the first ten days of November, Firefox market share is estimated at 25.56 percent, just ahead of Chrome with 25.30 percent. Compared to the September, Firefox has surrendered more than 0.8 points of share, while Chrome has gained 0.3 points.
"As of 1 June 2010, our tracking code is installed on more than 3 million sites globally."
Isn't it possible that most people who use firefox also use add-ons that interfere with their "tracking code"
Not gonna lie. FF almost never crashed on me, but FF8 has done it 2 times in 2 days. hope it is just a fluke.
As for memory, yeah over 300mb for 1 tab is pushing it, but with ram so cheap, that has not bugged me yet.
5 of those being from the past 8 months.
Version 2 was still the best version of Firefox out there, too bad we can't use it anymore.
It's speed tests will go up drastically if it can use 1 core per tab like Chrome can.
Firefox has always been multithreaded, and now uses the GPU itself more than ever. Chrome is pretty much a toy browser, no real features of note and it is far more unstable than Firefox and its clones. Of course if you're doing nothing but Facebook or adult imagery, you wouldn't ever need more than one core.
And for the rest of you whiners, go install MemoryFox and quit your crying.
wow I didn't know it was using GPU Power for itself. Now I know why the first card gets little hotter than the other two on my sli setup. Thank you ! Problem Solved! you deserve "Best answer from lordstormdragon "
Generally it's Flash and HTML5 stuff that's being accelerated, not usually .jpg image-loading or text-rendering for example. But those aren't math-intensive functions usually. But that would explain the heat discrepancy between your two graphics cards, _Pez_, as I doubt Firefox would be accessing the second card at all.
Heavy 3D apps such as Maya and Max also aren't boosted by SLI/Crossfire, except for in pure GPU-based renderers such as iRay or Vray-RT. But your on-screen viewports even in very expensive software won't utilize that second card. Generally, SLI/Crossfire are geared towards heavy DirectX loads.
wow, ff8 crashes less than 3.6 did for me, and it runs faster and seemingly lighter too.
it freezes at about 1.5 gigs, what the hell kind of stapler are you trying to run it on anyway?
seriously, how long before the last format,
gpu, when was the last driver update
cpu,
os
tell us what makes it so bad for you, because im still useing 8.0a1 (2011-07-24) and couldnt be happier, though im not planning to upgrade to 8 full release, just because thats a hassle.
Yeah, multithreaded but still the rendering engine will just use 1 core, even if your trying to restore 20 tabs on a beefy internet connection. Multi-threaded !=multi-core support, being multi-threaded is just a programming technique and if it happens to be able to keep two threads busy at the same time, well then good.
However, memory usage is still behind FF.
The biggest issue is that if some memory intensive app is running (like syncing, copying or acronis), clicking on FF to open takes the longest time. At that time, only chrome opens (IE also fails). This is with 10GB of DDR3 1333, and a core i7-950 CPU.
It's really nice to be able to configure your software and add functionality, something the Firefox community has always excelled at.
firefox uses more memory on one tab than the rest, but on many tabs it uses less.
im using memory fox on full system. some applications dont like that, but they never did run great after a period of not using them so i wont hold it against it. it makes chrome with 40~tabs take less than 200mb of ram.