Flock/Firefox Bugs

 It’s not often that you’ll find me moaning about bugs in Mozilla based browsers but this post is an exception.

 There are two bugs that are not going to be fixed in the next version of Firefox and will thus be in Flock as well…firstly Firefox has a memory leak problem…the longer you leave it open the more memory it will consume (it seems to stabilise at some point so it’s not a deal breaker that would force you to dump the products). Mozilla have accepted that the bug exists yet they have also decided that it won’t be fixed until v2.0 at the earliest…a bad decision IMHO.

 Second bug…some sites don’t render as they ought so to do…scroll down and everything is fine and dandy but if you scroll up you get a series of annoying lines across the pages…this too appears likely to be present in the Firefox v1.5 release and will thus also be in Flock.

 To my mind both these bugs ought to be considered sufficient to delay the release of Firefox v1.5 until they are fixed but Mozilla appear to be willing to ship product with them in place. Neither bug makes the browsers bad products of unusable yet they do annoy users and, surely, Mozilla based browsers should consider the “user experience” with their products to be a high priority rather than adding to the feature count while bugs remain in the core code.