Update on periodic Firefox hangs
Currently released Firefox 8 beta includes fixes for the periodic hangs some users suffered, so you can now board the beta channel and leave your feedback on the issue, if you wish.
Is your Firefox freezing at regular intervals?
We've identified a bug that may cause, under certain circumstances, periodic freezes of the Firefox UI, in terms of a short freeze every about 9 minutes. This only affects a small amount of users, so, if you don't notice this behavior, you can stop reading.
Changes to Places memory consumption, expiration and performances
As part of the Memshrink effort, we reduced the SQLite page cache used by Places. This is not a leak, the page cache is actively used by SQLite to improve performances by reducing disk I/O. Originally Places was allowed to use a large cache (maximum 6% of physical memory, per connection), to ensure responsiveness of the awesome bar.
Those boring 7 things...
Since I have been tagged at least by Tim Taubert and Dietrich Ayala, I feel like I can't escape anymore.
Easier backout scripts
Based on the useful article from Ehsan Akhgari and the comments to that article (especially the nice suggestion from Daniel Holbert) and in the need for easier ways to backout stuff from mozilla-inbound, I've put together a couple scripts I use to easily (and more safely) backout, I'm going to share these with you, in the hope they may be useful and hopefully improved!
A couple add-ons for Places maintenance
Listening to feedback I got from some user on my blog, I've put together a couple experimental restartless add-ons to solve some specific needs.
A proposal for dropping Microsummaries
Microsummaries were suggested as a new Web feature many years ago, and have been supported since Firefox 2.0. In case you were wondering, they are an auto-updating short summary of a page stored as a bookmark (the page itself provides some basic additional information to power this).
Analisi dei consumi dovuti al browser
Microsoft ha pubblicato un interessante articolo sui consumi di elettricità (e quindi di batteria se parliamo di dispositivi portatili) causati dal browser, il vincitore è Internet Explorer 9, ma Firefox segue a brevissima distanza, segno che l'impegno messo nel settore mobile ha pagato anche in ambito desktop. Entrambi i browser dimostrano un'attenzione ed un'ottimizzazione superiore alla concorrenza in questo importantissimo settore.
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