Re: Removing Firefox Version Number

My bloviated meandering follows what Mohannad graced us with on 
8/22/2011 6:07 AM:

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> 
> The most serious bug that drives me bananas is the huge memory
> footprint/leak in Firefox. After less than half an hour of use I am
> already hitting a few hundred megs of precious RAM space (I have other
> applications I'd like to use, that need RAM, too) -with no way to
> force garbage collection other than restarting the browser. This seems
> to be the number one complaint for me and the developers I know or
> work with.
> 
> Still though, we all think Firefox is one of the most solid browsers
> if not the most. We might be using more of Google Chrome lately but
> that's only because Chrome seems to manage memory consumption quite a
> bit better than Firefox. But when it comes down to serious debugging
> or reliability, we turn to tried and trusted Firefox and Firebug.
> 
> You're probably thinking that I am going off topic here. True, but for
> a reason. I think there are bigger issues to tackle with Firefox,
> which in my opinions are better use of your time than small matters
> like going version-less or rapid release cycles, which are actually
> angering your users and thinning out your fan base. Please don't
> destroy Firefox!
> 
> Mohannad
> Sent from my Firefox 5.0 (Refusing to upgrade to 6.0 because God knows
> I really need those add-ons working!)

Here's an article that seems to offer much hope in the memory leak 
department: http://tinyurl.com/3slaeop

You'll need to upgrade to Firefox version 7 to take advantage of it and 
you may find the Mozilla Add-on Compatibility Reporter helpful in 
mitigating your add-on incompatibility concerns. You may want to sandbox 
install it now to test it and, if it solves your memory leak concern, 
start investigating for any add-on compatibility issues.

Interestingly, I doubt that this fix would have availed itself to anyone 
so soon if not for the rapid release cycle.

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