Andy Edinborough

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

Posted on July 10, 2009 in Tech Watch    Tagged firefox bugs weeping Tweet This

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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