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Whoever takes charge, I hope he/she keeps Mozilla going in the same direction it has been in the recent past, because the work coming out of that company has be

Whoever takes charge, I hope he/she keeps Mozilla going in the same direction it has been in the recent past, because the work coming out of that company has been nothing short of amazing in my opinion. Basically, Mozilla, don't change, you're awesome.

btipling 13y ago
Mozilla's "phoenix" legacy is alive and well. I have been very skeptical of Mozilla even very recently as Firefox's many performance problems seemed insurmountable. But here I am after many years of using Chrome typing in this box using Firefox. I also hope they don't change direction. They're on fire and rising once again.
- bmj 13y ago
  Agreed. I've noticed some rather nice performance improvements over the last six months, and, like you, I've switched back to FF from Chrome.
  - hollerith 13y ago
    I'm guessing the computer you're running FF on has a solid-state drive; amiright ? added: my reason for asking is that I run FF (release update channel) and I genuinely wonder whether it would be more responsive if it weren't for my slow hard drive. (in particular, I am hypothesizing that every time I visit a new page, its URL gets committed to disk.) was not trying to slam FF; please don't downvote me!
    - btipling 13y ago
      It's more than performance, they've also picked up must have features like opening up just closed tabs (cmd+shift+t), and cmd+9 to go to last tab, private windows (used to be all of firefox went private), quick updates.
      - hollerith 13y ago
        The "Recently Closed Tabs" menu item (under "History") has been in FF since version 11 or before.
      - mirzmaster 13y ago
        Reopening a closed tab via Ctrl/Cmd+Shift+T has been a longtime feature of Firefox, since at least early 2007.
        btipling 13y ago
        Oh, whoops. Thanks for correcting me!
    - bmj 13y ago
      No, I'm not, actually. Just your standard, Dell-issued laptop drive. I noticed better memory usage and general performance increases within the last few releases to the beta channel (sorry, I can't pinpoint which one it was). I started to use FF again a few months ago, and found I still needed to restart the browser at least once a day to keep things responsive (and I don't usually have more than a dozen tabs open). Then, after one of the updates, I didn't need to do that, and I didn't notice any performance degradation over the course of several days.
      - hollerith 13y ago
        Thanks. I'll try the beta channel.
    - jimmaswell 13y ago
      Tr changing some disk-related settings in about:config.
    - hollerith 13y ago
      A few hours after I wrote this, my FF updated itself (to version 20.0) and became much, much more responsive!
jallmann 13y ago
Indeed, if it weren't for my startup, Mozilla is the first place I would want to work. I've been nodding in assent with nearly all their newer initiatives -- FirefoxOS, Persona, Rust, etc. Mozilla is pushing the Internet forward in the all the right ways.
PavlovsCat 13y ago
My thoughts when seeing this exactly.. "please don't change" - unless it's for the even better of course :)

btipling 13y ago

Mozilla's "phoenix" legacy is alive and well. I have been very skeptical of Mozilla even very recently as Firefox's many performance problems seemed insurmountable. But here I am after many years of using Chrome typing in this box using Firefox. I also hope they don't change direction. They're on fire and rising once again.

bmj 13y ago
Agreed. I've noticed some rather nice performance improvements over the last six months, and, like you, I've switched back to FF from Chrome.
- hollerith 13y ago
  I'm guessing the computer you're running FF on has a solid-state drive; amiright ? added: my reason for asking is that I run FF (release update channel) and I genuinely wonder whether it would be more responsive if it weren't for my slow hard drive. (in particular, I am hypothesizing that every time I visit a new page, its URL gets committed to disk.) was not trying to slam FF; please don't downvote me!
  - btipling 13y ago
    It's more than performance, they've also picked up must have features like opening up just closed tabs (cmd+shift+t), and cmd+9 to go to last tab, private windows (used to be all of firefox went private), quick updates.
    - hollerith 13y ago
      The "Recently Closed Tabs" menu item (under "History") has been in FF since version 11 or before.
    - mirzmaster 13y ago
      Reopening a closed tab via Ctrl/Cmd+Shift+T has been a longtime feature of Firefox, since at least early 2007.
      - btipling 13y ago
        Oh, whoops. Thanks for correcting me!
  - bmj 13y ago
    No, I'm not, actually. Just your standard, Dell-issued laptop drive. I noticed better memory usage and general performance increases within the last few releases to the beta channel (sorry, I can't pinpoint which one it was). I started to use FF again a few months ago, and found I still needed to restart the browser at least once a day to keep things responsive (and I don't usually have more than a dozen tabs open). Then, after one of the updates, I didn't need to do that, and I didn't notice any performance degradation over the course of several days.
    - hollerith 13y ago
      Thanks. I'll try the beta channel.
  - jimmaswell 13y ago
    Tr changing some disk-related settings in about:config.
  - hollerith 13y ago
    A few hours after I wrote this, my FF updated itself (to version 20.0) and became much, much more responsive!

jallmann 13y ago

Indeed, if it weren't for my startup, Mozilla is the first place I would want to work. I've been nodding in assent with nearly all their newer initiatives -- FirefoxOS, Persona, Rust, etc. Mozilla is pushing the Internet forward in the all the right ways.

PavlovsCat 13y ago

My thoughts when seeing this exactly.. "please don't change" - unless it's for the even better of course :)