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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. Yeah well, by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Redundant

    It's still a dinosaur to me.

  2. Firefox by IO+ERROR · · Score: 0, Redundant
    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.

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  3. Or you could use FireFox by OneNonly · · Score: 0, Redundant

    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!

  4. you go girl by xenocyst · · Score: -1, Redundant

    woohoo!
    now if it only came bundled with a particular desktop os... ;-)

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  5. Re:great by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Redundant

    ba-dum-CHING!

  6. Re:great by kubrick · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Mozillla?

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  7. Re:Argh. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Redundant

    I second that!

    That was more on post then even this one!

  8. Dramatically? by Rui+del-Negro · · Score: 2, Redundant

    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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  9. Re:"dramatic" by rjstanford · · Score: 0, Redundant

    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....

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