Mozilla's Gary Kovacs to step down as CEO

Re:Mozilla's Gary Kovacs to step down as CEO by btipling on Wednesday April 10, 2013 @02:53PM (#5527225)

Mozilla's "phoenix" legacy is alive and well. I have been very skeptical of Mozilla even very recently as Firefox's many performance problems seemed insurmountable. But here I am after many years of using Chrome typing in this box using Firefox. I also hope they don't change direction. They're on fire and rising once again.

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Re:Mozilla's Gary Kovacs to step down as CEO by bmj on Wednesday April 10, 2013 @03:30PM (#5527495)

Agreed. I've noticed some rather nice performance improvements over the last six months, and, like you, I've switched back to FF from Chrome.

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Re:Mozilla's Gary Kovacs to step down as CEO by hollerith on Wednesday April 10, 2013 @04:28PM (#5527926)

I'm guessing the computer you're running FF on has a solid-state drive; amiright ?

added: my reason for asking is that I run FF (release update channel) and I genuinely wonder whether it would be more responsive if it weren't for my slow hard drive. (in particular, I am hypothesizing that every time I visit a new page, its URL gets committed to disk.) was not trying to slam FF; please don't downvote me!

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Re:Mozilla's Gary Kovacs to step down as CEO by bmj on Wednesday April 10, 2013 @08:10PM (#5529085)

No, I'm not, actually. Just your standard, Dell-issued laptop drive.

I noticed better memory usage and general performance increases within the last few releases to the beta channel (sorry, I can't pinpoint which one it was). I started to use FF again a few months ago, and found I still needed to restart the browser at least once a day to keep things responsive (and I don't usually have more than a dozen tabs open). Then, after one of the updates, I didn't need to do that, and I didn't notice any performance degradation over the course of several days.

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Re:Mozilla's Gary Kovacs to step down as CEO by hollerith on Wednesday April 10, 2013 @09:45PM (#5529417)

Thanks. I'll try the beta channel.

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Re:Mozilla's Gary Kovacs to step down as CEO by btipling on Wednesday April 10, 2013 @04:46PM (#5528048)

It's more than performance, they've also picked up must have features like opening up just closed tabs (cmd+shift+t), and cmd+9 to go to last tab, private windows (used to be all of firefox went private), quick updates.

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Re:Mozilla's Gary Kovacs to step down as CEO by mirzmaster on Wednesday April 10, 2013 @05:17PM (#5528252)

Reopening a closed tab via Ctrl/Cmd+Shift+T has been a longtime feature of Firefox, since at least early 2007.

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Re:Mozilla's Gary Kovacs to step down as CEO by btipling on Wednesday April 10, 2013 @06:09PM (#5528547)

Oh, whoops. Thanks for correcting me!

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Re:Mozilla's Gary Kovacs to step down as CEO by hollerith on Wednesday April 10, 2013 @04:58PM (#5528122)

The "Recently Closed Tabs" menu item (under "History") has been in FF since version 11 or before.

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Re:Mozilla's Gary Kovacs to step down as CEO by hollerith on Friday April 12, 2013 @07:34AM (#5537846)

A few hours after I wrote this, my FF updated itself (to version 20.0) and became much, much more responsive!

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Re:Mozilla's Gary Kovacs to step down as CEO by jimmaswell on Thursday April 11, 2013 @06:36AM (#5531034)

Tr changing some disk-related settings in about:config.

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