Firefox 24 Arrives: WebRTC Support and NFC Sharing On Android 152
An anonymous reader writes "Mozilla today officially launched Firefox 24 for Windows, Mac, Linux, and Android. Improvements include a new option to mass close tabs 'to the right,' as well as WebRTC support and NFC sharing on Android. Firefox 24 has now been released over on Firefox.com and all existing users should be able to upgrade to it automatically. As always, the Android version is trickling out slowly on Google Play. Compared to Firefox 23, this isn’t a big release for the desktop. Mac users will notice a new scrollbar style on OS X 10.7 and users of the browsers social features will appreciate the ability to tear-off chat windows by just dragging (full release notes: desktop, mobile)."
What features did they now remove? (Score:4, Insightful)
What features did they now remove in the name of dumbing down the user interface for mentally challenged user group? Address bar? Right mouse button context menu? Bookmarks?
Oh God! (Score:0, Insightful)
Another Firefox version number?!?
Can't Firefox just update their product with reasonable version numbers?
If they did it right, we'd be on 1.0.1.2.3.11.654399922344!
But Noooooooooo, they only go out to 2 -TWO -decimal places!
Really!
And the release cycle! Can't they wait for at least 4 or 5 really bad bugs that will compromise my system, take all my sensitive information, and god knows what BEFORE releasing all these pesky releases!
I mean really, when I see these notifications of a new release, I just HAVE to go and update.
It takes time, you know. For one, I got to change user to an admin account and download and install because if I do it as a user, then I got to clean up user/AppDatarsomething/balh/blah/blah/yada/yada/yada/yada or I get the "Update Failed to install. Please try again." error.
And let's not forget that ... I can't think of anything. Can I have my +5 Great Bitch and Moan karma now?
New scrollbar style on OS X 10.7? (Score:5, Insightful)
Can't you morons just display the scrollbar in the normal default style the OS is giving you? That's what I hate about Firefox, it looks like an ugly Windows program on every OS.
Re:Memory Leaks Solved? (Score:4, Insightful)
I won't be downloading any new versions of Firefox--nor will I enable automatic updates--until they fix the danged memory leaks that have been present since they began their whirlwind upgrade cycle with FF 4.0.
What memory leaks? If you've found new ones, have you reported them? Significant progress has been made in Firefox's memory usage in the last three years. Do you read the memshrink progress reports [mozilla.org]? If you don't, maybe you should.
Chrome is a handy replacement for what used to be a reliable friend--Firefox.
Surely you realise that Chrome uses more memory than Firefox. Look at a comparison of browser memory usage with a single tab open [tomshardware.com] and multiple tabs open [tomshardware.com]. If you're happy with Chrome's memory usage, you'll be happy with any browser's memory usage.