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."

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Firefox

[IO ERROR]

And Firefox is many percentage points faster than Mozilla. Many many many. And renders better. And has a cooler download manager. Oh, did I mention it's faster?

And for more fun, read your mail and news with Thunderbird. It's faster, too.

Or you could use FireFox

[OneNonly]

If you only want a web browser - Mozilla FireFox is already *much* faster than the standard Mozilla... Fast enough to run on a Windoze box!

Re:great

[kubrick]

Mozillla?

Dramatically?

[Rui del-Negro]

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.

Dramatically? I don't know about you, but an 8% increase in speed and 5% decrease in size doesn't seem very dramatic to me. Mozilla is okay, but still fels like a truck compared to Opera.

RMN
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Re:"dramatic"

[rjstanford]

By your argument, you could scale a one day's effort that increased performance by a measly 1% and claim a 38-fold increase over the year.

I mean, really....