Firefox 4 - The State Of Development

[Mihai]

I agree. To be honest sometimes Chrome needs more Mem Usage than FF! :o

True sometimes, very rare. But it's not only the memory consumption, it's the fact that Chrome has a good system of managing them so you don't feel any lag. You can't really do that with Firefox, at least not now.

[slikrapid]

However there has been growing discomfort and complaints from the Firefox fanboys that its taking too long for Mozilla to bring the the marquee product out.They did not want to wait so long for Firefox to evolve from 3 to 4 especially when Chrome blazed from v1 to v9 in just two years...

this nonsense needs no comment

This tactic of Mozilla is thought to mimic Google's frequent browser updates strategy which Google announced last year

if they want to stay competitive, new updates have to offer similar or better features than other web browsers and their timing should be close or better than others, its just common sense, whether this is accomplished with version 4.1 or 5 is irrelevant

Firefox maintains that almost 7000 bugs were fixed during the testing phase

is that supposed to be impressive? it means their programmers made at least 7000 (big) mistakes which should have been addressed much earlier

There is a Product Roadmap on the Official Mozilla website on how to ship faster

:yawn:

[SaintShaolin]

Firefox 4 Download Available, Release Tomorrow

Mozilla will release the final version of the long awaited web browser Firefox 4 tomorrow. This ends an odyssey full of delays that began about nine months ago with the first beta release of Firefox 4. Nine months, that is the projected time that Mozilla will need for the next three major Firefox releases.

I have followed the development of the browser from pre-beta to the final release, and have to admit that it was not always a pleasant ride. It looked in the beginning as if the developers planned to make changes for the sake of changes, and not because they made sense or were demanded by the majority of the Firefox community.

Features like the new tab management module Panorama or the move to display mouse over link addresses in the address bar caused quite a stir among the community, and were disabled or changed in the end.

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