Firefox 6 for web developers

Re:Firefox 6 for web developers by hendler on Tuesday August 16, 2011 @05:38PM (#2892998)

Happy about websockets.

But mostly excited for FF 7 with the memory management improvements. http://blog.mozilla.com/nnethercote/2011/08/09/firefox-7-is-...

Firebug needs a manual update. see http://getfirebug.com/downloads

[edited to add firebug link]

Learned that

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Re:Firefox 6 for web developers by mixmastamyk on Wednesday August 17, 2011 @02:56AM (#2894410)

Meh, I've been using FF8 nightly for a few weeks and the memory improvements are modest at best. I just had to restart my browser because it got up to 650mb even after closing tabs.

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Re:Firefox 6 for web developers by tbassetto on Wednesday August 17, 2011 @03:23AM (#2894457)

It may be caused by poorly written extensions and/or extensions "forced" to be compatible with nightlies.

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