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How abut fixing the numerous FF issues for the MacOSX? But I guess that doesn't attract eyeballs nor does it bring in new google money. I've spent more time swearing at my screen in desperation during the last 6 months-1 year than I used to do back when IE6 was ruling the web, all of this "thanks" to FF and Chrome. How can such nice products (they were nice in the not so distant past) could turn into such memory-hoggers in such a short amount of time?

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Different teams work on different things.

I'm aware of that, but I also know that management can re-allocate resources according to the company's needs. I'm just frustrated that said "company needs" seem to never fall in line with what most of the existing FF users want.

You're assuming that your needs are representative of most users.

I'm making that assumption based on me reading on other forums about users complaining about said FF memory issues. And, then again, trying to make a better product (one which uses less memory, for example) should also be on a software-maker's list of things to always have under consideration (it's like a restaurant always having to make sure that their toilets are clean).

But I agree that it's difficult to ask for even fundamental things like "give your users less memory-hungry programs" in times like these, when a chat client like Slack does almost nothing when other users complain about it using 1GB memory almost for nothing. We live in sadder times than I imagined 10 years ago, programming-wise.

Perhaps they don't want to prioritize a platform that Apple themselves don't even work on too much.

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