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I stopped using Firefox after the 3.x period. I personally believe 3.x series was the best Firefox, and that going forward it has only been downhill. On the con
by mrchess 15y ago
I stopped using Firefox after the 3.x period. I personally believe 3.x series was the best Firefox, and that going forward it has only been downhill. On the consumer level, I think their biggest mistake was giving each release a new major number (4,5,6,7,8,9) when only minor things were changing. We went from Firefox 4 to Firefox 10 in less than a year. Why would a consumer like so much implied change so fast?
- RKearney 15y agoBecause that's what Chrome does and Google was sucking market share away from Mozilla. The only difference is Chrome silently updates in the background and applies updates when the browser is closed. Firefox still throws up a modal dialog when it's time to update, followed by the breaking of every extension you have because it's not for the new version of Firefox.
- chaud 15y agoAutomatic add-on compatibility went in with Firefox 10 and Silent updates will be here in the next few versions. Memshrink and Snappy and making significant progress towards the leaking. Work is being done to make it easier to identify which add-ons are leaking (Firebug is!). I am using Aurora now and Netbeans and my IM client are using more memory than Firefox. Many of the problems from the past are gone now.
- tbassetto 15y agoIt's less minor than your think: "What happened between Firefox 7 and Firefox 10" http://paulrouget.com/e/fx7to10/ http://paulrouget.com/e/fx7to10/ Anyway, I can see how someone could choose to stop using Firefox because of the new version number policy. Especially if those people are switching to Chrome :)
- tbassetto 15y agoBummer, read "I can't see"! Wow, I managed to completely changed the meaning of what I thought.