Before reading this, look here at what this idiot writes. According to him, Firefox is slow and buggy because of the web pages developers make, not because the people who develop Firefox made a piss poor job. So let’s put it out in the open. That’s retarded. Why?
- the purpose of a web browser is to allow people to browse the web. Therefore the browser must be built so that it is able to load what the web is offering, not the web must be built to suit the capabilities of the browser. The idea that the web developers must adapt to the browser regardless of what the technology has to offer belongs to Microsoft and they failed miserably despite their monopoly in consumer OS
- when it comes to Javascript, the developers don’t control the memory management. Javascript is not C, where the developer must be careful to allocate and deallocate memory. Garbage collection is handled by the javascript engine within the browser. Safari, Chrome, Opera, Konqueror, even Internet Explorer, they all handle jQuery without any issues. Firefox on the other hand dies if it has to handle AJAX requests for a while. Why the others can do a good job in making a good Javascript engine while Firefox fails?
- the solution is simple. The Firefox Javascript interpreter should be able to handle AJAX. AJAX has been here for many years, there’s no reason why a modern browser would choke on Javascript. Internet Explorer used to suck at it too, but now it sped up past Firefox from most points of view.
Shame on brain-dead evangelists.