nsane.forums Posted March 16, 2011 Share Posted March 16, 2011 Mozilla is preparing to release the next major iteration of its open source browser, with the launch possibly happening in less than a week. Nothing is set in stone at this point in time, but if everything goes well, Firefox 4.0 Final could be released to the public as soon as March 22nd, 2011. Essentially, what Mozilla is trying to determine at this point in time is whether there will be a need to provide a second Release Candidate for Firefox 4.0. Firefox 4.0 RC1 was offered to testers last week after no less than 12 Beta development milestone, and this could end up being the same Build as the Final release. "Firefox 4 RC1 has received a very warm welcome; it's time to make a decision to ship. As of now, there are no known issues that would stop us from shipping RC1 as final. At the conclusion of our regular 11:30AM triage session on Wednesday, March 16th, release drivers will decide whether to ship RC1 as Firefox 4," revealed Damon Sicore, Sr. Director of Platform Engineering at Mozilla. "March 22nd is the day we would ship. Both IT and Marketing have indicated that March 22nd is an acceptable final launch date. If at any time we discover issues that would block final release, we would issue an RC2 as soon as possible, reset the ship date, and communicate to everyone."Firefox 3.6, Firefox 4.0's predecessor, was launched in the second half of January 2010, which means that customers have had to wait over a year already. Mozilla intends to ship major versions of Firefox at a much faster pace moving onward, with Firefox 5.0, 6.0 and 7.0 all planned for release by the end of 2011. At the time of this article Mozilla hadn't yet identified a need for RC2, which could mean that March 22 might very well end up as the release deadline for Firefox 4.0. View: Original Article Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
linty Posted March 16, 2011 Share Posted March 16, 2011 I dont know if this is the places to say this , I have been coming to nsane for along time but never say much ..... I love firefox the only browser i use ....The point is i thought the reason for all the work on 4 was to use less memory ...even with no adons downloaded ,it starts with 30% more memory than 3 and it just keeps going up with more open pages and more adons .and I cant live with out ad block plus.and i have been guided to alternatives but still so high ,Now they say its ready for release... am i missing something here . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bashar Posted March 16, 2011 Share Posted March 16, 2011 linty , that's what mozilla discovered , there wont be major update in firefox 4.0 (memory consumption wise)so they planned to do firefox 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
linty Posted March 17, 2011 Share Posted March 17, 2011 linty , that's what mozilla discovered , there wont be major update in firefox 4.0 (memory consumption wise)so they planned to do firefox 5 Thanks Bashar .I must have miss that some how .Just because it uses more memory doesn't mean I'm not going to use it , just would be nice,,,Tried all the others ,But so long on Firefox ,and love the adons ,,hard to get use to anything other than,,, I will wait and hope like everyone else. Thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrator DKT27 Posted March 17, 2011 Administrator Share Posted March 17, 2011 linty , that's what mozilla discovered , there wont be major update in firefox 4.0 (memory consumption wise)so they planned to do firefox 5 Thanks Bashar .I must have miss that some how .Just because it uses more memory doesn't mean I'm not going to use it , just would be nice,,,Tried all the others ,But so long on Firefox ,and love the adons ,,hard to get use to anything other than,,, I will wait and hope like everyone else. ThanksI believe some memory optimization is done in FF4. No I'm not talking about fixing of memory leak, more than that. Also Adblock+ is known to be famous memory eater (still love it though :P ). But I haven't used FF4 properly to be able to confirm your problem. :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bizarre™ Posted March 17, 2011 Share Posted March 17, 2011 I believe there were some fixes introduced to Firefox 4 regarding memory leaks. Now, I only frequent at +500MB.If some of you didn't use Nightly / Beta, then you haven't experienced +1GB memory consumption.@linty:Some people say that AdBlock Plus is one of the major reason Firefox 4 is having memory leaks. Personally, I also think so.I uninstalled AdBlock Plus once then tried AdBan, and I must say Firefox 4 became a lot more snappy and responsive.In the end, I reinstalled AdBlock Plus since it has some features that AdBan doesn't have. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
linty Posted March 17, 2011 Share Posted March 17, 2011 linty , that's what mozilla discovered , there wont be major update in firefox 4.0 (memory consumption wise)so they planned to do firefox 5 Thanks Bashar .I must have miss that some how .Just because it uses more memory doesn't mean I'm not going to use it , just would be nice,,,Tried all the others ,But so long on Firefox ,and love the adons ,,hard to get use to anything other than,,, I will wait and hope like everyone else. ThanksI believe some memory optimization is done in FF4. No I'm not talking about fixing of memory leak, more than that. Also Adblock+ is known to be famous memory eater (still love it though :P ). But I haven't used FF4 properly to be able to confirm your problem. :) LOL Yeah I had to use IE for 3 days on another laptop .without ad block,,, and i didnt pitch it at the wall.It was all I could do not to. I don't see how people can even use the net without it and yes I do have it turned off on here and 1 other site. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
linty Posted March 17, 2011 Share Posted March 17, 2011 I believe there were some fixes introduced to Firefox 4 regarding memory leaks. Now, I only frequent at +500MB.If some of you didn't use Nightly / Beta, then you haven't experienced +1GB memory consumption.@linty:Some people say that AdBlock Plus is one of the major reason Firefox 4 is having memory leaks. Personally, I also think so.I uninstalled AdBlock Plus once then tried AdBan, and I must say Firefox 4 became a lot more snappy and responsive.In the end, I reinstalled AdBlock Plus since it has some features that AdBan doesn't have.Same thing, I tried adban , But went back to .Adblock plus Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrator DKT27 Posted March 17, 2011 Administrator Share Posted March 17, 2011 Some news coming that Mozilla has confirmed that 22 March is the final date. That means no RC2 or more bug fixes needed. :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mara- Posted March 17, 2011 Share Posted March 17, 2011 AdBlock could be the cause, indeed. I can't be sure about memory leaks, but it slows startup of Firefox for sure. I tested with some addon, and It slows down the startup at least by 1-2 seconds.Cheers ;) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
linty Posted March 17, 2011 Share Posted March 17, 2011 AdBlock could be the cause, indeed. I can't be sure about memory leaks, but it slows startup of Firefox for sure. I tested with some addon, and It slows down the startup at least by 1-2 seconds.Cheers ;)I have internet explorer9 on the other laptop here ''they don't like'' FF'' But if you go to tools /toolbar / and disable add ons it pulls up your add ons and tell you how much memory they use and how much longer it takes IE to start because of each of them and you can disable accordingly. i dont know how to copy a pic of it ,but sure wish Firefox had it,,,but it says speed up browsing by disabling addons..at least it would be a tool to help narrow down stuff quicker instead of trial by error or does firefox do this already[ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrator DKT27 Posted March 17, 2011 Administrator Share Posted March 17, 2011 Looks like they have even announced the timing for the release. :blink:7am PDT. That is around 2pm GMT. ^_^ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
anuraag Posted March 18, 2011 Share Posted March 18, 2011 news about rc2http://groups.google.com/group/mozilla.dev.planning/msg/fb62c98fbf726ce7?hl=de%05bcbe3ad842eb62e&pli=1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrator DKT27 Posted March 18, 2011 Administrator Share Posted March 18, 2011 news about rc2http://groups.google...d842eb62e&pli=1I see. Thanks for the info. More importantly, final will release on 22nd March either way. :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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