Looking forward to Firefox 3 [LWN.net]

Firefox 2.0 isn't quite out yet, but the developers are already looking forward to the next major release. To that end, they have put together a Firefox 3 feature brainstorming wiki with all of the ideas they are considering. It's all just ideas at this point, and it's probable that a lot of things on that list will never show up in code form, but it is still interesting to see where the project thinks it might go.

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Looking forward to Firefox 3

Posted Oct 14, 2006 19:58 UTC (Sat) by maks (subscriber, #32426) [Link]

as their wiki requires an account, here are the wishes:
* rework trademark to allow any Linux distribution to ship iceweasel^Wfirefox
* release *security* patches

Looking forward to Firefox 3

Posted Oct 16, 2006 10:41 UTC (Mon) by job (guest, #670) [Link]

Here are my wishes, in order of importance:

Fix memory leaks.

That's it. I'm sick and tired of my Firefox, official build with no plugins or extensions, slowly building up to a crash at around half a gigabyte. It's gotten better but it's still unacceptable. A web browser should never require a hundred of megabytes of memory.

Looking forward to Firefox 3

Posted Oct 16, 2006 16:05 UTC (Mon) by zlynx (subscriber, #2285) [Link]

Memory leaks should be fixed, yes. However, I disagree about memory usage. Firefox using a gigabyte of RAM is fine with me if I get something for it. Something like an extra fast "Back" button, or really great Javascript, DHTML and AJAX support.

Features that use piles of RAM should be user-adjustable, so you and I can both have what we want.

Looking forward to Firefox 3

Posted Oct 19, 2006 19:54 UTC (Thu) by dank (guest, #1865) [Link]

Firefox's bad memory usage behavior hurts,
especially on older machines. Try this:

Run firefox for a while until it gets nice and big
Run some other job that uses lots of memory,
so firefox gets paged out
Try to quit Firefox

On my dual 650Mhz box with 512MB RAM,
it can take *minutes* for Firefox to finish
quitting.

This is pain nobody should have to endure.

Looking forward to Firefox 3

Posted Oct 19, 2006 8:54 UTC (Thu) by DG (subscriber, #16978) [Link]

Some readers may also find this interesting :
http://www.kryogenix.org/days/2006/10/17/firefox-30-sugge...

Looking forward to Firefox 3

Posted Oct 23, 2006 2:44 UTC (Mon) by Baylink (subscriber, #755) [Link]

Usage: that's not "a wiki", it's a page on their wiki.

Someone sent me an internet that told me so...