Brendan Eich designed ***new line terminators*** quite consciously, and they will not break even in strict mode (**I** have tested that)

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So, even Mr Flanagan accepts that ASI works! And is consistent! So, why are you still stuffing in *dumb* bloody semi colons for no reason?????

Oh, I know, to make your code look really, really ugly. OK, got it now! Now I *understand*.

LMAO!

JSLint is for whiney, silly, little girls! ‘Girls’ who eat ‘quiche!, ISO coding! (My name is Mr. D. Crockford! and I am a crock of …., fill in the blank!?!)

Sorry, but real programmers eat a *full* Irish breakfast!

And then belch!

So, sod off to all the quiche eating, Nazi loving, Yankee-ass kissing, weak willed, surrender monkeys!

TheIrishman says that he agrees when Frankie says, “Grow the f*ck up!” ;-)))))))))

They are NOT required in CSS. They are ONLY needed BETWEEN css statements:

“color:#ffaa00″ is ok. And no semi-colon in sight!?!

“color:#ffaa00; position: absolute” With a semi colon BETWEEN css terms! That IS required!

var, return, break, and continue DO NOT require semi colons in ASI! WTF? Sorry dude, but have you EVER coded JS???

These are ALL good!

if(a==b) return

for(i=0;i<10;i++)
{
if(i==2) return
}

var i=0, j=1, k=2

AND NO semi (bloody) semi-colons! (except inside the 'for' def!)

Dude!!! where do you get your info from!!!!

Semis are ONLY ***EVER*** required in JS in a for loop def "for(…,:…;…)

And (Sorry!!!), but for me, this is the ***ONLY*** place they should be used!!!!!!!

Leave semis for this!

And for every other use, use a bloody CR/LF. Code for readability, and leave the code nazis to w*nk over their "limp biscuit"!!!

God, do I hate dudes that do not know their arse from their elbow.

The( very irate )Irishman

Thank you for your response and your good humor on the subject!

I tried your suggestion, and it did in fact make Firefox feel lighter and faster. However, the Flash bug remains, which is unfortunately is wildly inconsistent. When I download my Flash video player, it takes as long as 30 seconds to load – in Chrome it was right away. Checking YouTube, their player loaded instantly in Firefox. I came into work this morning expecting to do some serious debugging, and the player is loading without pause now. While it seems that it may have been a network issue with my company’s server, that doesn’t explain why it worked fine in Chrome. I also know it’s not just me, because it happens with ads all the time.

I had already spent numerous weeks fixing another Firefox Flash bug not too long ago, so the prospect of searching for another fix to make a plugin work properly is not appealing.

I know, as my blog says, that Flash is the town drunk – but its necessary to work with it until FF supports H264. I also hate H264, but see no way around that. My company hosts 90TB of video, and it’s a large order to double the capacity and encode WebM.

I have a suggestion that might help with the Firefox problems. Since you’ve been a user for so long, especially with add-ons, it’s common for your Firefox profile to get built up with years of gunk. Try creating a new profile ( http://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/Managing-profiles ) and browsing around with videos and the other activities that usually cause problems in that new profile. It’s like starting over with a brand new Firefox, and for many people the difference is night and day.

If things are better, you can then copy your bookmarks and history over (using Sync for example) and maybe copy your add-ons one by one to make sure they haven’t been causing problems as well.

Full disclosure: I work for Mozilla.

Now I’m become a fan of Chrome too