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Mozilla announces Firefox long-term release
Posted: 11 Jan 2012, 16:11
by Ron2K
From their blog:
We are pleased to announce that the proposal for an Extended Support Release (ESR) of Firefox is now a plan of action. The ESR version of Firefox is for use by enterprises, public institutions, universities and other organizations that centrally manage their Firefox deployments. Releases of the ESR will occur once a year, providing these organizations with a version of Firefox that receives security updates but does not make changes to the Web or Firefox Add-ons platform. We have worked with many organizations to ensure that the ESR balances their need for the latest security updates with the desire to have a lighter application certification burden.
Full blog post
No real surprise as to why they're doing it -- their rapid release plan isn't popular with enterprises, who place long-term stability above being on the bleeding edge the entire time. The way I see it, it's going to work out similar to Ubuntu, who releases a new version every six months but release a LTS (long-term support) version every two years.
The guys who are sick of dealing with broken addons every time a new FF version is released will like this too, as now it will be a less frequent problem (if they stick to ESR versions).
Re: Mozilla announces Firefox long-term release
Posted: 11 Jan 2012, 20:01
by DeathStrike
meh i like being on the bleeding edge.. only problem is the add-ons don't
and i like my add-ons
Re: Mozilla announces Firefox long-term release
Posted: 12 Jan 2012, 11:28
by Bluez
Try using the Add-on Compatibility Reporter
(here). It's more for beta testers. It disables FF for checking if the add-on is compatible with the new version.
Downside, if it's not compatible, you find out the hard way when it just refuses to work the way it is meant to.
Re: Mozilla announces Firefox long-term release
Posted: 17 Jan 2012, 10:16
by ADT
DeathStrike wrote:meh i like being on the bleeding edge.. only problem is the add-ons don't
and i like my add-ons
I disabled most of my add-ons, FF runs faster IMO now
Re: Mozilla announces Firefox long-term release
Posted: 17 Jan 2012, 10:23
by hamin_aus
That's all well and good, but when will they address the leaky memory that has led to me favouring Chrome or Opera over FF
Re: Mozilla announces Firefox long-term release
Posted: 18 Jan 2012, 05:32
by Tribble
What leaky memory? (This is a genuine interest question) I have not noticed any problems.
Re: Mozilla announces Firefox long-term release
Posted: 18 Jan 2012, 06:04
by hamin_aus
then you have never had FF open for a long period of time
Re: Mozilla announces Firefox long-term release
Posted: 18 Jan 2012, 06:12
by Tribble
Sometimes it is open all day. Is that not considered long?
Re: Mozilla announces Firefox long-term release
Posted: 18 Jan 2012, 06:25
by hamin_aus
No. I can have an instance of a browser open for a week or longer sometimes, doing all sorts of things in various tabs
FF's memory footprint go over 500MB after a day
Chrome seems to treat every tab as a unique exe, and closing one down within the main browser will recover the memory - ditto Opera and even IE 8 and 9
FF however refuses to give memory back.
Re: Mozilla announces Firefox long-term release
Posted: 18 Jan 2012, 07:38
by ADT
jamin_za wrote:No. I can have an instance of a browser open for a week or longer sometimes, doing all sorts of things in various tabs
FF's memory footprint go over 500MB after a day
Chrome seems to treat every tab as a unique exe, and closing one down within the main browser will recover the memory - ditto Opera and even IE 8 and 9
FF however refuses to give memory back.
Jamin that's understandable and all, but remind me again why you would let a browser run for a week straigh or longert?
Re: Mozilla announces Firefox long-term release
Posted: 18 Jan 2012, 09:26
by hamin_aus
Okay, so I'm asking why this browser doesn't do something that other browsers can do, IE release memory back to the OS or at least reuse the memory efficiently over time.
And your response is to ask me why I would want to do this
Seems legit.
I have pages I keep open all the time because I look at them that often.
Our fault system at work is web-based and my fault list stays open permanently... several other pages, including this site... why close then only to have to reopen them in abit
Re: Mozilla announces Firefox long-term release
Posted: 18 Jan 2012, 09:29
by KatrynKat
i have noticed that AVG tells me that a lot of memory is being used by FF and don't i want to close and reopen it...
i haven't noticed any function loss or that FF becomes slower tho...
Re: Mozilla announces Firefox long-term release
Posted: 18 Jan 2012, 10:05
by ADT
One of the few add-ons i use is UnloadTab, pretty useful
Re: Mozilla announces Firefox long-term release
Posted: 23 Jan 2012, 08:16
by ADT
So has anyone downloaded the 10.0 Beta of Firefox? , downloaded it over the weekend , still testing it out