Firefox in 2011 – Firefox plans for 2012

Woohoo. Addons are now synced as part of Firefox sync. I'm so glad they put this in. Yet to see if addon settings will also sync, somehow I doubt it.

At the risk of sounding ungrateful, can we please get a new download manager? I remember getting excited almost a year ago when an update for it was announced, yet I'm still stuck with this infuriating default which makes me want to smash my screen.<p>Yes, I'm aware add-ons fix that, I don't want an add-on for something that should exist as a part of Firefox.

Since there is no mention of Firefox 'Metro Style' for Windows 8, should one gather that it won't happen during 2012? I realize they just announced that they're starting it, but I assumed it would come sometime around the launch of Windows 8.

Seems there's still no proper Lion support. I wonder what's taking so long. Chrome has had this for months.

Well I ran Firefox 3.6 for years and it was stable as a rock. Couple of months ago, Ubuntu pushed the latest Firefox in updates. I am now running 10.0.2 on lucid and it barely lasts for couple of hours before crashing when running Gmail. I have dutifully submitted all crash reports and hope that somewhere on the 2012 roadmap, they also take care of this.

Firefox is dead to me, replaced it with Chrome. On a relatively new iMac I get the spinning rainbow all the time, scrolling is jittery, everything takes ages. This is even with just 2-3 tabs open. Scandalous Firefox, you were great a couple years ago.