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Mozilla 1.7 Beta Is Faster And Smaller

Posted by timothy on from the working-nicely-here dept.

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."

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  1. Oh no, there goes Tokyo... by kentyman · · Score: 5, Funny

    Go Go Mozilla!

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    1. Re:Oh no, there goes Tokyo... by Zakabog · · Score: 5, Funny

      History shows again and again How open source points out The folly of closed, MOZILLA!

      If you don't understand this joke go listen to some Blue Oyster Cult

  2. Mozilla 1.6 by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    Wow, I got here first using 1.6. Looks like some people will need 1.7 to get here faster next time

    1. Re:Mozilla 1.6 by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

      This type of poll sucks

      Yes
      No

    2. Re:Mozilla 1.6 by kundor · · Score: 4, Funny
      Dude, lynx is so dead. Links is the text browser of the FUTURE!

      It'll be dominant within months, just wait.

    3. Re:Mozilla 1.6 by Trejkaz · · Score: 4, Funny

      Faster? You mean like the guy that beat you to the first post?

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    4. Re:Mozilla 1.6 by tbuskey · · Score: 4, Funny

      I used to change my user agent to say it was running IE on CP/M-86.....

    5. Re:Mozilla 1.6 by jonadab · · Score: 5, Funny

      > I used to change my user agent to say it was running IE on CP/M-86.....

      I like to play fun games with my ua string, too. One of my favourite tricks
      is to claim to be running my browser on an X11 GUI on PC-DOS 3.3, but claiming
      MSIE on X11 is fun too (especially, MSIE on an X11 GUI on a Microsoft OS).
      Other user-agent jokes I've seen include the following:
      * Claim to be running a significantly future version, (e.g., claim MSIE 11.5
      or Mozilla/7.0 or use a future Gecko build date, et cetera)
      * Claim to be both MSIE and Gecko in the same user-agent string
      * List Emacs as the operating system
      * List Klingon, Quenya, or Sanskrit as the localization language
      * Claim an utterly impossible browser/OS/hardware combo, like iCab on
      OpenVMS on SPARC, or, even better, claim a combination that's not only
      impossible but also ancient, like NCSA Mosaic on ITS on a PDP8.
      * Claim a virtual machine architecture (e.g., the z-machine, glulx,
      parrot, jvm, ... anything that's never been implemented in hardware)
      as your hardware architecture.
      * Make wrong and incompitible version claims (e.g., start with Mozilla/2.0
      and then give a 2003 Gecko build date or claim to be MSIE 6.0)
      * Claim to be running on Hurd, BeOS 6, or some other vaporware.
      * "NoBrowserNeeded (My TCP/IP stack is connected directly to my brain.)"

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  3. Compared to IE.... by MarauderJr · · Score: 5, Funny

    The next service pack of Internet Explorer plans to have longer load times, more crashes, and open a few more exploits into a Windows system.

    Modzilla keeps getting better all the time.

  4. In other news... by cperciva · · Score: 4, Funny

    When compared to Mozilla 1.6, Lynx is 99% faster at startup, 99% faster at window open time, has 50% faster pageloading times, and is 90% smaller in binary size.

    In all seriousness, it's easy to improve figures like this just by removing features.

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  5. Dramatically faster?? by EmbeddedJanitor · · Score: 5, Funny

    The fastest speed up is not even 10%. That's about an extra 0.01 tits/second. Want more speedup than that.

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  6. Re:This is why I dropped Netscape by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    On the one hand, the dodo. On the other hand, the road-runner.

    And in a crash-hole between them, the coyote.

  7. Re:Yes, it is smaller and better by no+longer+myself · · Score: 5, Funny
    the visitors use IE and that makes it the standard

    Admittedly, I get most of my site's hits from Slashdot, but I find a rather pleasant mix of Gecko, Mozilla, Opera, Apple Webkit, and occasionally someone using IE. Actually, I think Google surfs my site more than anyone. (I did tell "Slurp" to take a flying leap.) Of course it does flop over to nearly 80% IE from time to time, but I've also noticed that IE users are only interested in some file named cmd.exe or root.exe, and I've never offered either of those files from this box. It must be a Microsoft thing...

    Personally I'm hooked on using Firefox, but I design my pages to look good in any light. ;-)

  8. Unlisted Speed Change by jmt9581 · · Score: 5, Funny
    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.

    After the news is released on Slashdot, it's now 40% slower to download. :D

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  9. Re:Yes, it is smaller and better by alphakappa · · Score: 4, Funny

    I visited kavlon.org and lost my vision for a few minutes.

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  10. Re:This is why I dropped Netscape by Imperator · · Score: 4, Funny
    On the one hand, the dodo. On the other hand, the road-runner.

    And this should serve as a warning to anyone else who thinks about getting stoned and posting here.

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  11. Re:Thunderbird... buggiest thing on earth by syrinx · · Score: 4, Funny

    I use Firefox and Thunderbird for all my stuff, but I definitely agree that TB has a way to go. The biggest problem that I've noticed is that occasionally it will just start acting slow, and I have to close it and start it up again.

    That said, I love Firefox, and if I'm forced to use IE (say, on someone else's computer), I feel like killing people (its designers, mainly). Is that what they mean by "killer app"?

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  12. I guess that makes it..... by laddhebert · · Score: 5, Funny
    "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 guess that makes it.....

    29% Better!

    -L

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