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

Oh no, there goes Tokyo...

[kentyman]

Go Go Mozilla!

Re:Oh no, there goes Tokyo...

[Zakabog]

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

Compared to IE....

[MarauderJr]

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.

Dramatically faster??

[EmbeddedJanitor]

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

Re:This is why I dropped Netscape

[Anonymous Coward]

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

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

Re:Yes, it is smaller and better

[no longer myself]

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. ;-)

Unlisted Speed Change

[jmt9581]

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

I guess that makes it.....

[laddhebert]

"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

Re:Mozilla 1.6

[jonadab]

> 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.)"