Chris Beard and the Firefox Community have answered many questions regarding Firefox 2.0 in this interview published on Slashdot. Questions about FireFox 2 Rendering Speed Compared to IE7, Competition, the future of Firefox, Tackling The DOM, Firefox Features, Add In Validation, Old Bugs, Firefox and Macs, and Future of Thunderbird. Chris invoked many important information about Firefox development, but there still a question that all Firefox users always ask : When will the memory leaks issues will be finally solved ?
Chris: The Firefox Charter states that our goal is to provide the most useful browser to the largest possible market while maintaining a simple interface that focuses on helping users accomplish their online tasks. That means adding the features which we think are useful for accomplishing tasks, but making sure that they’re not thrust into users’ faces unless they want them. We think people are doing more interactive things online these days, and are visiting more places than the average web user visited 4 or 5 years ago, so we’re looking at features that help people navigate their “local web” and are also looking at providing tools for helping them act on the information they find there. If we design them right, they’ll “just work” like users expect, much like we feel the Search Suggestion and Spell Checking features of Firefox 2 “just work”.
