Future of Firefox

[pcslookout]

Anyone looking forward to the next version of Firefox where you can control plugins like flash separately? I will finally be able to use cooliris within firefox! In both Chrome and Firefox Cooliris takes a insane amount of memory. Never releases it either until after you restart the browser. At least with chrome you can disable the plugin then reable it. That finally releases all the used memory. Hopefully the same will be possible with firefox. I don't like chrome so hoping this is possible. If it isn't no big deal I won't miss such a memory hogging add on like cooliris ever again.

 

[realmike15]

I don't know, I find Cooliris to be nothing but a gimmick. But I do wish Firefox released memory that wasn't being used.

 

[Chiefcrowe]

Yes, i cannot wait until the tabs/plugins are in separate processes. that will be a huge advance!

 

[simonizor]

Yes, i cannot wait until the tabs/plugins are in separate processes. that will be a huge advance!

I love the way that chrome does this.

I switched to Chrome because I got tired of Mozilla taking all of the good extensions and building them into Firefox. This was the problem that they had with their original browser, Mozilla.. It was a good browser, but it was very bloated from all of the features that they tried to incorporate into it, and it ran rather slowly. This is where Firefox came in. It was designed to be a streamlined browser that was extremely fast and only included the essentials. The versions previous to 1.0 were all very quick and only included the basic features. After that, they slowly started taking the popular extensions and incorporating them into the browser. Now Firefox is almost where Mozilla was; too many unnecessary features that could easily be added by extensions if the user desires to have them.

 

[0roo0roo]

http://www.palemoon.org/
theoretically a windows optimized firefox you might like, some features stripped.