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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. 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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