Comments on: What’s next after Firefox 3

By: WulfTheSaxon

WulfTheSaxon — Sat, 18 Oct 2008 17:59:08 +0000

Comments are closed on the “Oldest Bug Fixed in FF2” post, so here goes:…’

The oldest bug fixed in time for Firefox 3.1 could very well be Bug 350 – “PR_ExplodeTime() works only if given a PRTime argument between year 1901-2099” (actually an NSPR bug): https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=350

@Fred: Yup. 3 digits.

Not sure about the oldest Firefox-specific bug. 915 is the oldest I’ve run across.

By: Csongor Halmai

Csongor Halmai — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 13:50:02 +0000

FF3 is OK, but not perfect at all.

It was told that it will use much less memory like FF2 did. As I saw it is not true at all. If I open a news portal http://www.index.hu and open several (10-20) links from here on new tabs then FF3 will use ~200 MB of RAM, like FF2. After opening yet an other empty tab and closing all of the others (so only one empty page is opened without URL history), then the 200 MB remains reserved. Like FF2.

My second problem occurs quite often too: after closing every FF window I can not restart it until I close an orphan process in Task Manager of my WinXP (SP3).

I hope in FF3.1 these bugs will be fixed.

By: schrep

schrep — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 20:27:50 +0000

Tom – can you say more specifically what kind of problem you are having?

By: Tom Purcell

Tom Purcell — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 08:31:48 +0000

I was excited about downloading version 3 but it wont open and apparently this is what a great many folk are experiencing. Mozilla are not responding to these comments. Thankfully I was able to retrieve my previous version but I’m nervous about making another attempt for 3.
Tom Purcell
Cape Town

By: qqfaq

qqfaq — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 16:16:45 +0000

In any case, it would certainly better！

By: Tristan

Tristan — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 16:35:03 +0000

> you with me?

You bet!

–Tristan