Only days after Mozilla released Firefox 6, the beta version of Firefox 7 has been released, keeping Mozilla in the browser sprint currently in progress.
Firefox 73 is a minor update that highlights Mozilla's decision to speed up the browser's release schedule.
TekGoblin:
This week Mozilla released Firefox 7, touting increases in HTML5 standards compliance as well as reduced system memory requirements. I downloaded it to try it out, and for the most part things are as advertised.
FF7 is a bloody train wreck. Crashed me PC several times, and I run a decent rig... saw many instances of similar occurrences on the Mozilla forums.
Yeah I never understood that, Chrome spawns multiple processes for no reason at all!
there is a huge difference between multiprocessing , and silply having an insane memory leak
It runs a new process for every tab so that when one tab crashes the entire browser doesn't crash.
Just because you don't know why something happens, don't say that it happens for no reason, please.
Chrome taking up a lot of memory doesn't really bother me. It's pretty stable and it spawns multiple processes so that if a tab crashes, the entire browser doesn't. RAM is dirt cheap nowadays and computers have tons of it.
Just switched from chrome to opera and it's amazing. I didn't know any web browser could be better than chrome but I was dead wrong. You should try opera out...
my brother did a clean install of FF 7 the other day. It used more memory on 2 different computers than previous versions, coming in at 400mb - 500mb and would severely slowdown or lock up after a few hours.
They HAVE to let the browser eat more RAM to make it faster. The competition is fierce these days and nobody wants to use a slug!
Well im using the latest version of opera & it runs fine 90% of the time with minimal issues & rarely crashes on me.I had more issues & crashes with Internet explorer,chrome & fire fox then i have had with opera thus far.
Just got Firefox 7 and it is an absolute pain so far, it had frozen my computer uncountable times and is far slower than previous ones... I should have stuck to 3.6
Mashable: "Mozilla’s rapid release schedule for Firefox continues with the arrival of Firefox 7 for Mac, Windows and Linux.
Firefox 7 comes less than six weeks after the release of Firefox 6. Mozilla moved to a more rapid release cycle with a more streamlined, frequent and incremental upgrade cycle a la Google’s Chrome browser, after Firefox 4 launched back in March.
As a result, most of the changes have taken place under the hood. Mozilla boasts that Firefox 7 uses less memory and performs faster."
Why are Firfox updates coming out so fast? Weren't we on like 3 a few months ago? At this rate we'll be on Firefox 20 by next year.
Next week - Firefox 8 now available download. sigh
is it me or is there a major release of firefox each month now!!
Its good to see them working to improve it all the time
They need to slow it down a little bit to allow developers time to upgrade their toolbars. I've been waiting over a week now for a working version of SEOMoz.
I'm tired of all these updates... seriously. It's as annoying as Adobe updates now.