Firefox in 2011 – Firefox plans for 2012

Firefox in 2011 – Firefox plans for 2012(hacks.mozilla.org)

69 points by keyist 14 years ago | 18 comments

kaolinite 14 years ago |

Woohoo. Addons are now synced as part of Firefox sync. I'm so glad they put this in. Yet to see if addon settings will also sync, somehow I doubt it.

gkoberger 14 years ago | |

It depends on how the add-on author sets things up:

https://wiki.mozilla.org/Services/Sync/Addon_Sync#Are_Add-on...

kaolinite 14 years ago | | |

Ah good to know. I imagine the most popular addons will implement this. That's good enough for me.

napoleoncomplex 14 years ago |

At the risk of sounding ungrateful, can we please get a new download manager? I remember getting excited almost a year ago when an update for it was announced, yet I'm still stuck with this infuriating default which makes me want to smash my screen.

Yes, I'm aware add-ons fix that, I don't want an add-on for something that should exist as a part of Firefox.

kibwen 14 years ago | |

According to the Mozilla wiki[1] the release is on-target for Firefox 14, which means it should hopefully land in Nightly within the next six weeks.

I feel your pain, though. Download Statusbar[2] has been indispensable for my purposes. Will be curious to see if the new download manager will be worth switching back to the default.

[1] https://wiki.mozilla.org/User:P.A./Panel-based_Download_Mana...

[2] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/download-stat...

davux 14 years ago |

Since there is no mention of Firefox 'Metro Style' for Windows 8, should one gather that it won't happen during 2012? I realize they just announced that they're starting it, but I assumed it would come sometime around the launch of Windows 8.

wegwerf 14 years ago | |

According to the roadmap[1], a proof of concept will be done in Q2, and an alpha and a beta sometime in the second half of the year.

[1] https://wiki.mozilla.org/Firefox/Roadmap

pedrolll 14 years ago |

Seems there's still no proper Lion support. I wonder what's taking so long. Chrome has had this for months.

abhaga 14 years ago |

Well I ran Firefox 3.6 for years and it was stable as a rock. Couple of months ago, Ubuntu pushed the latest Firefox in updates. I am now running 10.0.2 on lucid and it barely lasts for couple of hours before crashing when running Gmail. I have dutifully submitted all crash reports and hope that somewhere on the 2012 roadmap, they also take care of this.

pbhjpbhj 14 years ago | |

My FF was the crashiest lump of pudding ever - seriously it was crashing a few times an hour ... until I started with a new profile and moved across my various .sqlite files (eg places.sqlite, cookies.sqlite, etc.).

Now? Completely crash free AFAIR.

I used http://kb.mozillazine.org/Transferring_data_to_a_new_profile... as the basis of what to copy, though there are other such pages like http://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/recovering%20important%2... which might help.

stef25 14 years ago |

Firefox is dead to me, replaced it with Chrome. On a relatively new iMac I get the spinning rainbow all the time, scrolling is jittery, everything takes ages. This is even with just 2-3 tabs open. Scandalous Firefox, you were great a couple years ago.