{"id":1497,"date":"2011-10-05T09:55:37","date_gmt":"2011-10-05T07:55:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/?p=1497"},"modified":"2011-10-05T09:55:59","modified_gmt":"2011-10-05T07:55:59","slug":"firefox-goes-9-and-goes-tablet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/?p=1497","title":{"rendered":"Firefox goes 9&#8230; and goes Tablet!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-678\" title=\"Firefox_Logo\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Firefox_Logo-150x150.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"64\" height=\"64\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Firefox_Logo-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Firefox_Logo-480x480.png 480w, https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Firefox_Logo.png 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 64px) 100vw, 64px\" \/>Okay, Mozilla Firefox is currently known to be the second Google Chrome<br \/>\nconcerning release speed of major releases&#8230; While I have just posted that<br \/>\nFirefox 7 is released and 8 is currently in beta status, Mozilla seems to work<br \/>\non the next version also. The new things? Tablet support! Sounds great!<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->Okay, it is quite annoying to read about a myjor release of Firefox now every month at least but hey, Chrome is already at version 14, so what gives?<\/p>\n<p>Other browsers&#8217; major releases are now also more often released. IE10 is already in progress and Opera has just released the Beta of version 12.<\/p>\n<p>Only Safari is at version 6 at most So what gives anyways. Interesting to see that the big cats in the alley are playing with 2-digit major versions while Firefox is &#8220;only&#8221; at version 9. However Mozilla has sped up their pace to release new major releases. So I wouldn&#8217;t be too surprised when we are at version 13 at the end of 2012&#8230; hmm&#8230; Should I be very pessimistic? 20.12.2012 (Mayan calendar ends here), Version 13 (common unlucky number).<\/p>\n<p>Well, back to the topic: So what is so special about Version 9 of FF?<\/p>\n<p>At first the have increased the Javascript Engine much more again and is supposed to speed up by 30 to 40 % against FF8.<\/p>\n<p>The next thing is the all-new user interface that provides support for Tablet PCs and smartphones as well. So maybe Mozilla thinks: One fits all.<\/p>\n<p>The only thing I hope is, that FF won&#8217;t consume so much memory as it does on PC, where 4 tabs in FF6 will inevitably consume 200 MB of RAM and probably more. (by the way: With 3 open tabs at the moment and writing this blog, my FF6 consumes roughly 365 MB(!) while IE9 just consumes about 37 MB where each tab appears to have it&#8217;s own process. Quo vadis, Firefox?<\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s see what the next versions (7 and <img src=\"https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/wp-includes\/images\/smilies\/sunglass.png\" alt=\"8)\" class=\"wp-smiley\" style=\"height: 1em; max-height: 1em;\" \/> will bring up and how Mozilla plans to bring down the enormous memory demand. On tablets there&#8217;s not so much RAM available to spam it with only one browser instance!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Okay, Mozilla Firefox is currently known to be the second Google Chrome concerning release speed of major releases&#8230; While I have just posted that Firefox 7 is released and 8 is currently in beta status, Mozilla seems to work on the next version also. The new things? Tablet support! Sounds great!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[55,4,3],"tags":[369,368,454,249,877,370,878,371,876],"class_list":["post-1497","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer-2","category-curiosities","category-news","tag-browser","tag-chrome","tag-firefox","tag-google","tag-ie","tag-major","tag-opera","tag-release","tag-safari"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1497","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1497"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1497\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}