Firefox 2 Feature Set / Requirements
 

http://wiki.mozilla.org/Firefox2/Requirements

This may be because i'm an Opera user, but most of this doesn't seem that interesting (mainly because Opera already has most of it :\/ )

P1 B1 improve memory usage

That sounds good though (owned firefox users)

How can we be considered owned, if they are going to improve it?

...or never noticed any of the obscene memory abuse some users have been abusing / use an operatiing system that handles these issues generally better than Windows will ever do.

Under the premise that Firefox is the open-source-developed browser with the largest community behind it, it will become the best means to traverse the web eventually. I'm not saying that, because I'm a cocky Firefox/Linux geek (that too) but because closed source projects will usually result in more bugs and less incorporated feature requests by the user base.

I admit that Opera is a decent browser though, used it myself until a couple of months before Firefox went final.

Really the memory usage in Firefox is not an issue for me until it slows down my other programs, right now I have 128MB of RAM and Firefox is onmly using 36MB with three tabs. I've never noticed why people bitch so much about it's memory usage. I've run Firefox, Windows, foobar2000 and a game on my system at the same time with no noticable performance drop in any.
And I also don't see why 99% of the critisim of other Firefox's traits are valid. Most people complain it doesn't have a HTML editor, torrent support or IRC chat.
That's what extensions and the original Mozilla browser are for, not Firefox. I like running with a program where I have no more features than I use and in that respect, Firefox is a perfect fit.

Wow Kaiten. If it doesn't eat up resources on your PC everyone else must be doing something wrong. Great outlook on life. Firefox has on occasion used upwards of 200MBs of memory on my PC after leaving it open for a bit. This isn't really a problem when you have as much memory as I do, but there's really no excuse for it. I still use Firefox because it doesn't effect my usage, but for a great deal of people it's a crippling problem.

One should mention that the rather popular Firefox extension Adblock has a few memory leaks of its own. Hence it's recommended to switch to Adblock Plus where those issues are fixed (and the original project is no longer being mantained anyway).

Ooh, wish I'd known they stopped supporting the old Adblock sooner. This one's got a nice little sidebar feature. :)

I'm a little displeased to see that Linux is at the bottom of that list of priorities. I'm still stuck with 1.0.8 since Gentoo won't unmask 1.5. I would switch to Opera except that it keeps randomly seg-faulting on me (and I didn't figure that out until I ran it from a command line). Add that to the fact that there's still no Flash 8 for Linux and you've got a pretty sad state for Linux browsers.

I just hope it won't eat so many RAM.
So I can do more thing when I use Firefox.

Why not just unmask 1.5, Magic?
It worked perfectly well for me in the short time I used it before unmasking Opera 9 and using that. :)

Regardless, I'm kind of upset about that too, but at least they seem to be putting some effort into trying to fix the RAM problem.

Eh, I tend to stay away from unstable software if it's something important. I think I learned my lesson when I failed to migrate to modular X and then had trouble going back to 6.8. Furthermore, some of the comments on the Gentoo forums made it sound like 1.5 had some serious issues in Linux.

Hm, I've been using it for months and I can't really think of anything worth the label "serious issues". What exactly are those comments refering to?

Same here.
I even unmasked it the really stupid way and it worked fine:
So if anything, I'd have really bad problems--and yet, it worked perfectly. By the way, masked doesn't always mean unstable. :)