Firefox 3.6x vs Firefox 9?

[soybean]

is it good that firefox is attempting their chrome-like speedy firefox releases?

  What do you mean?

[BC_Programmer]

  What do you mean?

they are releasing new versions far faster since Version 4.

[umbra]

I am not seeing any major modifications in these updates, and i found annoying to be advice so often to update firefox. Also many add ones crashed i do not think that was a good marketing strategy to release so many versions in such short time, but anyway now i am writing this from Firefox 12.0 .

[BC_Programmer]

I am not seeing any major modifications in these updates, and i found annoying to be advice so often to update firefox.

Try running it from some Linux distros. Mint 12 still happily proclaims that Firefox 3.6 is the "latest version" using the package manager, and the only way to get 8.0 was the build the bloody thing from source. Not something I care to repeat so at 8.0 I stay.

Most of the changes seem to be in the area of HTML5 support. At least that would be my guess.

the BIGGEST... and I mean absolute biggest problem with Firefox has to do with two things.

C++ and Garbage Collection.

C++? Fine. Garbage Collection? Fine. But the nature of the two beasts makes them pretty much incompatible.  having to restart Firefox because it's laden with that leftover garbage and sitting at 1.5GB of RAM with a single tab open is downright ridiculous.

[patio]

I am not seeing any major modifications in these updates, and i found annoying to be advice so often to update firefox. Also many add ones crashed i do not think that was a good marketing strategy to release so many versions in such short time, but anyway now i am writing this from Firefox 12.0 .

FireFox does NOT build their addons except in rare instances...
Therefore they shouldn't be criticised for which ones work or don't...

[umbra]

@BC_Programmer , i agree FireFox is consuming a lot of RAM memory... and i have only 2 Gb , it seems to use like a recent strategy game , i was thinking last days to try using another browser and now i am using also Opera to see if it performs better.

@patio for me as an user it does not matter who is guilty because my lovely add-on  stop working and last thing that i remember was, yeah... updating firefox....

[patio]

Then don't use it...

All i know is after using all Browsers FireFox for me has the least issues...