I hope I made it clear enough in my first reply that while your post was the one I chose to thread off of, I do believe that you weren't griping just for the sake of it and I take your interest in the Mozilla mission and frustration with the memory issue as sincere.
I believe there are lots of reasons that different people run into a memory issue, and I believe that while the Firefox devs have tackled some of them, there are plenty of other opportunities. I hear what you are saying about the difficulty in communication, although I would hedge that just a bit by saying that a lot of the abrasive communication isn't from true "leadership", and even the leadership people can get on edge from having to deal with too many people complaining and not contributing when they see the corp of volunteers working as hard as they can. :)
I'll reiterate, given my specialization in metrics, I love the new about:memory feature and also the Telemetry project. These two projects will give us useful tools to be able to accurately measure memory consumption on a variety of platforms for users who feel the memory problems as well as those who don't.
If you have some time, try out a nightly or aurora. If nightly, then opting in to Telemetry will submit the data to us. If aurora, then you can visit about:memory and either submit a bug or feedback with what you find. I and the firefox devs would greatly appreciate it.
I'll reiterate, given my specialization in metrics, I love the new about:memory feature and also the Telemetry project. These two projects will give us useful tools to be able to accurately measure memory consumption on a variety of platforms for users who feel the memory problems as well as those who don't.
If you have some time, try out a nightly or aurora. If nightly, then opting in to Telemetry will submit the data to us. If aurora, then you can visit about:memory and either submit a bug or feedback with what you find. I and the firefox devs would greatly appreciate it.
Cool, I'll look into that. I've been doing some "have two different browsers running at once" stuff lately, so I could test being logged into something as two different users... so that's given me an excuse to at least fire up one Firefox window. I'll look into grabbing a nightly and play with that little. Maybe I'll even gradually start using it more if it's stable enough.
I believe there are lots of reasons that different people run into a memory issue, and I believe that while the Firefox devs have tackled some of them, there are plenty of other opportunities. I hear what you are saying about the difficulty in communication, although I would hedge that just a bit by saying that a lot of the abrasive communication isn't from true "leadership", and even the leadership people can get on edge from having to deal with too many people complaining and not contributing when they see the corp of volunteers working as hard as they can. :)
I'll reiterate, given my specialization in metrics, I love the new about:memory feature and also the Telemetry project. These two projects will give us useful tools to be able to accurately measure memory consumption on a variety of platforms for users who feel the memory problems as well as those who don't.
If you have some time, try out a nightly or aurora. If nightly, then opting in to Telemetry will submit the data to us. If aurora, then you can visit about:memory and either submit a bug or feedback with what you find. I and the firefox devs would greatly appreciate it.