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Well... they've taken so long for 4.0, why not?
Firefox 5.0 only Months after Firefox 4.0
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As long as there is a reduction in the memory usage of FF5 compared to FF4 I don't mind how long it will take.
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I'm not talking about leakage here. More so a case of general memory usage. I always run FF with noscript+adblock installed. In FF3.6 with one tab open, it sits at a little above 100MB. In FF4, with the same two addons installed and one tab open, it sits at around 300MB~400MB. The triple memory usage is not very appealing to me, but I did like the new features in the pre9/10build.
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I've started to use Chrome more than FF lately. My main use for Firefox is for sites that don't support Chrome or for some extensions that FF has that Chrome doesn't.
But for browsing, I'm just about using Chrome all the time now. Seems faster and more lightweight.
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Firefox 5.0 only Months after Firefox 4.0
Posted: 24 Jan 2011
Firefox 5.0 only Months after Firefox 4.0 - SoftpediaIt appears that Mozilla is at least exploring a accelerating the release pace of major Firefox iterations per the Google Chrome model, if not also already working to make it a reality.
In this regard, users could be running the successor of Firefox 4.0 very soon after its release.
How soon? Well, according to Brendan Eich co-founder of mozilla.org and the CTO of Mozilla, Firefox 5.0 could be finalized and made available to customers in just a few months after the release of Firefox 4.0.
Eich delivered the closing remarks in the first Weekly Engineering Newsletter, and while the focus was placed on the need to finalize Firefox 4.0 as soon as possible, he also mentioned Firefox 5.0.
At the time when the newsletter was published there were still some 90 severe bugs marked as hard blockers, which all need to be resolved before Firefox 4.0 can be launched.
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