Mozilla 1.7 Beta Is Faster And Smaller

ccady writes "Mozilla 1.7 beta is out. Not too many new features, but "Mozilla 1.7 size and performance have improved dramatically with this release. When compared to Mozilla 1.6, Mozilla 1.7 Beta is 7% faster at startup, is 8% faster at window open time, has 9% faster pageloading times, and is 5% smaller in binary size." I'll be downloading it."

Comments

Re:noticeable?

[walter_kovacs]

Konqueror anyway is just shit, full respect to the developers for having a go but the page rendering is just awful.

Mozilla

[minus_273]

Good ole mozilla? have they gotten rid of offensive icons and imagery yet? I personally refuse to contribute to it until they take that crap out. It's unfortunate that they would continute to use such blatantly divisive imagery. Good thing for Konqueror and Safari or I would be stuck with the IE crap. Interestingly enough, the newst update to Safari (from OS X 10.3.3) eliminates all of the minor problems i've had with DHTML on some sites. Given how much faster and leaner KHTML based browsers are, I don't think I will ever need to use a gecko browser again. I think it is high time someone came out with a native KHTML browser for Windows (like safari) , it would give Mozilla a run for its money!

Re:Yes, it is smaller and better

[NeoSkandranon]

once one tries Mozilla, IE looks old and lame in comparison

Moz is the one that ends up looking lame when banking sites stop working, personal pages no longer render and etc.
And yes I am very well away of WHY. However very few people care about W3C standards, they care about being able to check their bank balance and pay bills online, get their websites and so on

Re:Yes, it is smaller and better

[benna]

That fact that aynrand.org doesn't render properly is actually a feature of Firefox not a bug. Who would want to read that shit anyway.