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What to Look Forward to from Firefox
- mindcrime 11y agoSadly I'm really starting to lose hope for Firefox. The memory usage issues have never been consistently fixed, with memory usage shrinking briefly with a release every now and then, and then growing over the next seven or eight releases, before possibly improving ever so slightly again. Lather, rinse, repeat. And over the last few releases, it seems to be becoming more and more of a CPU hog. I mean, hell, I just launched a Firefox session, no restored session or anything, no video playing, the only open tab is the Firefox start/welcome page... and top shows the Firefox process taking up 180m of RAM and 113% of my CPU. WTF? TBH, I consider Firefox almost unusable at this point, which leaves me using Chrome or Chromium for almost everything. I don't prefer this arrangement, but Firefox just kills my machine and has to be restarted all the time. If I had a suggestion to the FF developers it would be this: Take the next release (or two, or three if needed) and stop working on any new features. Nothing, not HTML5 video, not WebRTC, not ACID 374 (or whatever it's up to now) compliance, no CSS3, CSS4, CSS17 or whatever, no none of that stuff... and do nothing but work on improving the performance, especially in regards to RAM and CPU usage. And keep doing that until it absolutely smokes.