In what has to be either the most: a) insulting b) drug-induced c) stupidest d) all of the above … statement of the year on Firefox, Mozilla President (of Europe) in a recent interview with TechCrunch UK has gone on — amongst other things — to deny that there is any bloat in Firefox. In fact, its getting “speedier and speedier”.

Ugh.

I have claimed a great many things to be absurd, ludicrous, and just plain ol’ stupid. Hearing that Firefox *isn’t* bloated, when it regularly eats up 200-300+ megs of RAM for *me* (and I’m not the only one) while using minimal plugins (and other settings) is simply beyond the pale.

What’s more outrageous is that Tristan Nitot goes on to champion the user by using DRM as a foil (and a rather cheap and easy one at that), by going on to say

“I don’t think DRM has a future. Treating your customers like thieves is bad business practice. Today the customer is not ‘king’, they are considered thief first.”

Mssr. Nitot, you know what else is bad business practice? Treating your customers like puerile idiots.

Firefox has had problems with bloat and memory leak for a long time and its the one thing that successive iterations never seem to address properly. Its almost like Mozilla is saying “well, its your fault for not optimizing Firefox and not having enough RAM — fools.”

I have no idea when Firefox will fix this issue, or if Firefox will get its comeuppance for this ongoing sin. But its just sad when the chiefs at the top won’t even acknowledge this issue, which has been plaguing an otherwise fine product for ages.