Firefox v3.5 Needs to go back to the drawing board

Posted by Andy Edinborough on July 10, 2009

This truly is “embarrassing”.  image The Mozilla team really pulled a “Windows ME” with their latest release of Firefox.  After being open for 5 minutes, Firefox with only the “embarrassing” tab open has 26 MB more memory usage than IE8 running for hours with 3 tabs open (including a Bing Map).

LAME!  And what happened to Firebug?!  When I try to inspect a page, the CSS gets completely hosed.  I know the Firebug team has rewritten it to use JetPack, but it looks like they had to rush to get a v3.5 compatible version out in time for Mozilla’s release.

I’m not one to rollback software.  I’m a software junkie—I NEED the latest version.  It is with a heart that I uninstall Firefox v3.5.  I’m slighted enough that I’ll probably go back to v2.0 until this whole mess gets straightened out <weeps bitterly />.

Update:  Firefox v3.5.1 is no better

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I still receive this lovely screen every about every other time I launch Firefox.  You know, it’s like the old joke.

A patient goes to see a doctor, and says “Doctor, it hurts when I move my arm like this.”  The doctor says, “So don’t move your arm like that.”

Maybe I should just stop trying to launch Firefox?

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