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1. Comment - Major Firefox 2.0 Feature Dropped

   (Apr 29, 2006 - 4:29 PM)

   Hmm, so with FF you can block ads for free using adblock regardless of the underlying operating system, but for IE you have to buy bloated software for like $30-60 and it only works on windows?
   
   Why am I using Firefox?? I feel like such a moron ;)

2. Comment - Major Firefox 2.0 Feature Dropped

   (Apr 29, 2006 - 4:26 PM)

   As I recall, that wasn't an actual memory leak. An actual memory leak is an error in the coding that causes the app to request memory but then not free it up when done using it.
   
   In 1.5 the program used more memory BY DESIGN. Whether the design choice was right or not is up for debate, but it was basically FF stored previous webpages in memory so when you hit the back button they would popup really fast. Not a memory leak, but maybe not the best use of resources either...

3. Comment - AOL Fine Tunes New Media Player

   (Dec 9, 2004 - 9:57 PM)

   Yes, XUL's the language that Mozilla uses, and Netscape Communicator, as a Mozilla derivative also uses it. However, XUL was proven too slow and annoying to handle the function of an entire webbrowser suite (the Gecko engine had to parse both webpages and the interface...)
   
   Firefox is faster than Mozilla Suite because it has user interfaces optimized for each OS it runs on. Thunderbird is the same way. XUL was origionally picked for Mozilla because it's OS independent, but that also means it has to recreate many functions that are built into different OS's..)
   
   That said, I don't think it will be in future versions of Netscape, if there are any after the upcomming fugly Firefox-based beta browser they have. Firefox, while probably capable of rendering XUL, is not XUL based.