Comments on: Firefox 4 will push out the edges of the browser

You think Firefox 3 is cool? Pah. Mozilla's Chris Beard is working on the things that, if he has his way, will surface in the next incarnation.

[DiggumFrog]

Well, I apologize for my lack of vision, but could anyone explain a decent use for Prism? My rationale is that, well, why move an application to another window, namely the desktop, when it's already open in a window to begin with, the web browser? Web apps can already interface with a computer's various hardwares, why localize it?

It appears to me that Mozilla is looking to expand to a corporate demographic with this. Like with weave: I could see how this would make certain aspects of conducting business, from the perspective of a salary man who is constantly moving between departments if not locales, easier to deal with. But as a private citizen, I can see a whole host of privacy issues being raised by having my browsing history and bookmarks socialized by default.

Just some thoughts and I hope some of you will share your insights on Prism, as well.

[sharnon007]

I started using Firefox the year I got my 1st pc, 2000. I was a browser-junkie for some reason. Anyway, I didn't know anything about pc's and taught myself. Even then, I preferred Firefox and Opera. Now FF is #1 and Opera is 2nd. I read somebody saying that FF will never be BIG since it doesn't target businesses. The thing is, FF can be configured to target ANYTHING and ANYBODY, without having all the crap that is unnecessary for the purposes it's needed for. This is what addons are for. So users may pick and choose what THEY need, a bunch of crap that 'only uses your data anonymously'. FF is open-source, so people have ALWAYS been able to work on the source code- and their work isn't stolen, it's shared!
Also, FF ADMITS when there's bugs instead of doing like mickeylimp and blaming all other hardware & software providers. Seems as though people have forgotten mickeylimp has ALWAYS been buggy as well as the staggering amount of NUMEROUS security flaws. Mickeylimp has actually blamed other companies hardware and software that most people use, and make them change THEIR software- ON A WORLDWIDE SCALE. Look @ Vista- what a rip-off, and ME. Goodness, EVERYBODY can't be wrong. FF tries to be compatible with it all... and when tech changes, FF does too... QUICKLY and EFFICIENTLY!
Personally, I think one of the biggest problems with FF being more buggy than it used to be is because or the amount of RAM that people need now JUST to run their operating system. Most people have only upgraded RAM or have only the minimal amount suggested. There's LOTS of new technologies that ANY browser needs to be able to run efficiently and more often than not, there's quite a few of these different techs on each and every webpage- not to mention what's going on just in the coding alone. One of the other big problems is amount of ever-changing tech and FF just wants to be able to be compatible with all of it. Since it is open-source, different people w/different ideas are working on it.... but still they ALL demand that it WORK and if there's a problem, they don't blame others and pass the buck------------- THEY FIX IT!
Hasn't mickeylimp decided that their next OS is NOT going to be full of bloat, but users will have the OPTION of downloading it? Hmmmm, wonder why it took a business worth billions THIS long to come up with that idea?

I hope this made some sense. This is my 1st article I've ever written on pc stuff- I had to. This one hit my heart. Please let me know if I made sense!

ThanX~~~~~~~~~~~~~ S Johnston-Robinett
Mommie of Seth-9, Saul-7 and Cyrus 21 months.

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[sharnon007]

Oh yeah... the guy that said that FF will never ever be larger than IE, 5hundred-thousand happy users means a LOT more than 5 million unhappy ones! (I don't know the stats, but you get my point)
BTW- a lot of people buy their own pc's and write it off as a biz expense, I'll bet the 'company' can't FORCE you to use IE. And, a lot of companies are looking to open-source. hmmmmmmmmmm

ThanX~~~~~~~~~~~~~ S Johnston-Robinett
Mommie of Seth-9, Saul-7 and Cyrus 21 months.

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[SX10 IS]

That's the problem with these dudes, and much more so with the morons trying to make Google OS. If <b>Web</b>=<b>Computer</b>, then <b>Computer</b>=<b>No Computer</b>. It'll destroy itself.

[vignesh1036]

Is there any plans for FireFox 4 to be 64-bit? I'm looking for a good 64-bit browser for my computer that runs on core 2 duo and vista 64-bit

[reneematt]

This all sounds great but doesn't help me at all. My Firefox crashes a minimum of 5x a day - and has crashed as much as 14x in one day!!! I love Firefox, but the crashes have drove me crazy. I finally downloaded Chrome yesterday and have used it for 2 days without one crash.

I've send requests for help, but nothing. Fix it, then update it PLEASE!!!