Has the quality of Firefox gone down recently?

[RCuber]

I am noticing a drastic performance drop in the recent builds of Firefox.

I have only 4 extensions installed at home, NoScript, AdBlock, Download Helper, and one more.

The startup time is pathetic, opening TFD, Gmail and youtube simultaneously via bookmarks causes it to hang for 5-6 seconds. this is not just in one computer .. its across multiple devices.

so the question is .. Has Quality of Firefox gone Down? is Mozilla loosing the plot to build quality software instead of releasing updates ever now and then?

 

[Faun]

losing

 

[Krow]

Nope. Version 10 is fine on windows. On linux, flash-heavy sites make it hang. But i think FF is acutuallybresponding to competition faster ever since the new numbering system.

 

[skeletor]

No. I don't think so. Firefox is my default browser in Linux.

 

[Skud]

Memory consumption is still its Achilles Heel. But in my book still the best.

 

[RCuber]

No. I don't think so. Firefox is my default browser in Linux.

Yes Firefox in my Linux installation works really good. But not in Windows.

 

[skeletor]

Memory consumption is still its Achilles Heel. But in my book still the best.

Old myth. Firefox has the lowest memory consumption.

 

[tkin]

It went down, but now back on track, still takes longest to launch among all three major browsers but good none the less.

 

[gopi_vbboy]

yes even hangs while rendering a bit heavy page for me compared with chrome which is smooth on same machine.

 

[asingh]

It went down, but now back on track, still takes longest to launch among all three major browsers but good none the less.

Ya, launch time is lame. I think it checks for updates and add in updates on launch.

 

[tkin]

Ya, launch time is lame. I think it checks for updates and add in updates on launch.

No, I have mine disabled from checking updates at startup, FF has been suffering from slow cold launch for a long time now.

 

[thetechfreak]

I use Firefox both in desktop and laptop. Only thing that is a pain is the startup time.

 

[Piyush]

works good on *nix platforms
but something really messed up in Windows platform

 

[Anorion]

idc, I use Opera, the website is borked if it doesnt work on Opera

 

[clmlbx]

Latest version of chrome that is 17 is using lot of memory comparing to previous versions

 

[Gauravs90]

why should one even consider memory consumption as 2GB of memory is enough for any browsing needs and now a days its the minimum requirement for any system...

 

[Skud]

Old myth. Firefox has the lowest memory consumption.

I have seen it consume as high as 900+ mb. And this is on 10.0.2.

 

[Krow]

I have seen it consume as high as 900+ mb. And this is on 10.0.2.

It scales. You have 8GB RAM, so FF uses more. Heck, all apps use more. In my office PC with 1GB RAM, FF 10.0.2 never exceeds 220 MB.

 

[Skud]

Its behaving like this in a laptop with 2gb RAM. Also in a desktop with 4GB. Major problem is that due to this it stops responding for some moments while browsing.

Not really much bothered with RAM usage in my Gaming PC. Pagefile is turned off and its doing fine. And it has Waterfox installed in it. And Opera 64-bit.

 

[gopi_vbboy]

i think firefox 4.0 was good and had major improvements.


How can i stop ff from updating automatically