Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Thu 10th Nov 2005 02:12 UTC
Firefox turned one year old Wednesday, marking yet another milestone for the popular open-source browser. Firefox has grabbed 8.65 percent of the market and put a dent into Internet Explorer's dominance, according to NetApplications' October results. Elsewhere, Camino 1.0b1 was released.
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by binarymelonc on Thu 10th Nov 2005 19:08
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61.5 mb? Count yourself lucky.
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by joekiser on Fri 11th Nov 2005 02:15
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One of the largest packages I've built on a linux system were firefox and thunderbird, the packages weighing in at a very large 30mb each, and these are bzipped!
That's because the source tree is shared for Firefox, Thunderbird, and SeaMonkey. So each time you download the source tarball, you are downloading components for all three programs, plus the Gecko engine, plus a bunch of other libraries. It's entirely possible to build each program from the same source tree; why most distributions don't include this as the default behavior is beyond me.
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by DittoBox on Fri 11th Nov 2005 03:08
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I have to agree. I've seen some pretty nasty conversations in the firefox bugzilla DB. Asa & Co., bickering with people who want some seemingly logical additions/changes to some of the smallest and littlest things in firefox.
To me however the biggest problem with firefox is simply how slow it is. It takes a lot of memory, on my system, with two tabs a few extensions and 512 mb ram, it's taking the #1 spot in memory consumption at 61.5mb (windows xp).
I'm not really concerned about features, I like a slimmer browser, I'll install extensions for the functionality I want. What I want right now is for an optimized and sped up firefox. One of the largest packages I've built on a linux system were firefox and thunderbird, the packages weighing in at a very large 30mb each, and these are bzipped! I'm not sure how much of this is actually compiled, but I'm sure a lot of it is, it takes a very long time to compile it compared to most other packages.
I still love firefox though, and wish it all the best. I've been using it since phoenix .6 and think that in time it'll be a great browser someday.