How Would You Change Mozilla Firefox?
June 15, 2009 by Rico Mossesgeld
Filed under Ramblings of a Gadget Geek
By popularizing tabbed browsing, and allowing functionality extensions via add-ons, it’s easy to see why only Mozilla Firefox legitimately threatens Internet Explorer’s stranglehold on the browser market.
Yet Firefox’s developers have never made the browser more memory-friendly. Understandably, keeping multiple windows with multiple tabs open is very demanding. But Mozilla should’ve realized that a long time, as people started keeping tabs (pun intended) on things, and opening multiple windows to ensure they wouldn’t miss out on apparently compelling content. Users installing myriad add-ons probably didn’t help too.
It’s good that the Firefox 3.5 preview shows support for open source video. But I …read more
