Mozilla Firefox

"Mozilla plans to release a concept version of Firefox for Windows 8's new Metro interface in the second quarter with alpha and beta versions to follow in the second half of 2012." - LANjackal from Bookmarklet

"As you can see in the image a couple of values are displayed. But what do those stand for? Here the answer: Resident: Memory mapped by the process that is present in physical memory. It’s normally the memory usage you will see in the systems process manager. GC: Duration of the last Garbage Collector activity and in brackets the time when the second last activity happened. CC: Duration of the last Cycle Collector activity and in brackets the time when the second last activity happened. Logging: Starts and stops the internal logger, which writes out the current memory usage and GC/CC activities to a log file, which can be found in the memchaser sub directory of your Firefox profile." - LANjackal from Bookmarklet

"It can show us a list of all the open tabs and their memory usage sans JS for now, as per the above screenshot. If you expand the tab capsules, you get to see the list of all the inner windows/iframes that live in the hierarchy of that page." - LANjackal from Bookmarklet

"A new update installation method allows Firefox to install an update while the browser is running. This means that the update can be installed immediately after it is downloaded. A restart of the browser is still required to apply the update but, using the new method, the application of the update will happen very quickly. So quickly, in fact, that you shouldn’t even notice it. The new version of Firefox will then launch with no delay as the update procedure has already taken place." - LANjackal from Bookmarklet

"we’ve just deployed instant search to bugzilla.mozilla.org" - LANjackal from Bookmarklet

"Mozilla is drafting a proposal for a new Web standard called MediaStream Processing that introduces JavaScript APIs for manipulating audio and video streams in real time." - LANjackal from Bookmarklet

"In conjunction the Mozilla Foundation and the Open Source Democracy Foundation, Public Knowledge this week launched a new website called WhatIsMyCap.org aimed at simplifying wireless usage caps and overages." - LANjackal from Bookmarklet

"Despite testing on Apple-built hardware, OS X generally trailed Windows 7 browser performance, with a Mac browser beating all Windows 7 challengers only four times out of 35 eligible tests. As for the runners up, Chrome came in just behind Firefox on Windows, while Chrome and Firefox were nearly indistinguishable for second place on OS X." - LANjackal from Bookmarklet

"Not without difficulties or issues, but it seems we finally have a localized native build on Android. Kudos to all people involved, I’m pretty sure there’s a lot of work behind this small screenshot (and there’s still a lot more to do)." - LANjackal from Bookmarklet

"For years, many in the tech press have presumed that Google is "donating" money to Mozilla. They're not. They're no more donating to Mozilla than they are to Opera or Apple, both of which derive significant revenue by sending search traffic to Google. For Opera, that appears to be about $50M in the last 12 months. (Apple doesn't disclose the details of their arrangements with Google.) They're no more donating to Mozilla than they are to the handset makers and carriers they pay to distribute Android. It's a simple business deal. They sell ads and they do what they can to put eyes in front of those ads." - LANjackal from Bookmarklet

""People never seem to understand why Google builds Chrome no matter how many times I try to pound it into their heads," Kasting says. "It's very simple: the primary goal of Chrome is to make the web advance as much and as quickly as possible."" - LANjackal from Bookmarklet

"What's Firefox worth to Google? A cool $300 million a year, according to a Thursday report by AllThingsD." - LANjackal from Bookmarklet

"in Firefox Aurora (soon to be Firefox 10), downloads in the browser now use considerably less CPU usage (sometimes reduced by ~50%). Another great fix came in for about:permissions. Users who had many thousands of sites listed in about:permissions would encounter sluggish behavior from the browser when loading about:permissions. This sluggish-ness is now a thing of the past that should be long forgotten and never missed. In Firefox Nightly (soon to be Firefox 11), we now have a complete internal asynchronous API for favicons. Work had started on this in earlier releases, but it has now reached completion. The landing of this feature will allow consumers of favicons (think of: tabs, history, bookmarks, downloads, Windows 7 jump lists, I-don’t-know-what-else-but-there-are-probably-tons-more, etc) to render, react, and update much quicker." - LANjackal from Bookmarklet

"There has been a lot of attention focused on enhancements for HTML5 videos recently. Here is an updated list of changes you can expect to see, as well as find out what is currently planned." - LANjackal from Bookmarklet

I'm using it right now, browsing around FF with FF 8.0.1 on Ubuntu 11.10. No issues encountered so far. - imabonehead

That's good advice, thanks I'll do that. - Halil

"Mozilla is mulling the end of Firefox support for Mac owners running Leopard, the Apple operating system released four years ago, developer discussions show." - LANjackal from Bookmarklet

"When Firefox finishes downloading an update, it launches the updater application in the background without displaying any UI, and applies the update in a new directory that is completely separate from the existing installation directory. Instead of staging the update itself, an entire updated version of Firefox is staged. The next time that Firefox starts up, the existing installation is swapped with the new updated installation which is ready to be used. In this scenario, you likely won’t notice that Firefox has applied an update as no UI is shown." - LANjackal from Bookmarklet

"Google's mobile browser leapfrogged Opera Mini to take the second-place spot in worldwide usage of the Web with smartphones and tablets in October." - LANjackal from Bookmarklet

"There’s been a desire to put out Aurora release notes starting next week. That makes this a fantastic time to rethink the release notes, their audience, and their purpose" - LANjackal from Bookmarklet

"There’s an incredible amount of work being done on SpiderMonkey at the moment, and a lot of it will help reduce Firefox’s memory consumption." - LANjackal from Bookmarklet

"Starting with Firefox 8, Firefox will properly render backgrounds which are vector images, at the appropriate size required by the corresponding background-size. To the best of my knowledge Gecko is the first browser engine to properly render vector images in CSS backgrounds." - LANjackal from Bookmarklet

"In this post I’ll introduce some of the design elements in the SDK that make it harder for malicious web content to compromise add-ons, and limit the damage done if a site succeeds in compromising all or just part of an add-on." - LANjackal from Bookmarklet

I'm at 6.01, too but I feel like it freezes all the damn time. while chrome is crashing a lot I'm thinking about opera again......... - esther

Thanks esther, my GC sux big time lately, crashes as soon as I open it, so might try and upgrade to 7 then, but I did read about some bugs, but I guess thy are all imperfect to some degree. Hence my previous offer, I'll make a coffee and I'll get Derrick to bake a chocolate cake, even though he doesn't know it yet, lol, for anyone who can make a better new browser! :-D - Halil

"Mozilla, not content with its monumental shift from four major builds in five years down to a new stable build every six weeks, is looking at outputting a new release every five weeks, or perhaps even less." - LANjackal from Bookmarklet

"In the coming weeks, you’ll see more communication from Mozilla in this area, and we really welcome your ideas and comments. The main principle is to try everything, evaluate, and keep doing what works. We know that we need to be good at it, and we’re committed to learning how." - LANjackal from Bookmarklet

"a comparison of the run-time of multiple programs is meaningless if you don’t specify what those programs are.  Workload matters. And yet, people make comparisons of browser memory usage like this all the time." - LANjackal from Bookmarklet

Mine just updated itself and a a version check reveals 6.0 - Nick B.