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First Look At Firefox 3.0 Beta 2

Posted by samzenpus on from the check-it-out dept.

DaMan writes "ZDNet takes Firefox 3.0 beta 2 for a spin and draws some conclusions that should be sweet music to Mozilla's ears. "Beta 2 feels snappier and far more responsive than beta 1 (or Firefox 2.0 for that matter) and I can feel the difference on all the systems that I've tried it on — from a lowly Sempron system to my quad-core monsters. No matter what you want doing — opening a new tab, moving tabs, opening up Find, zooming in and out of the page, bookmarking — it all happens swiftly and smoothly. What surprises me about the Firefox 3.0 beta is how many memory leaks that Mozilla have fixed. Complaints of memory leaks with Firefox 2.0 were met with an attitude of "Leaks? What leaks?" Considering that there have been more than 300 leaks plugged, it's obvious that past versions leaked like sieves.""

13 of 531 comments (clear)

  1. Re:I like firefox... by Seumas · · Score: 2, Funny

    They aren't memory leaks! Remember, it is all a "back button speed enhancement" feature! If they say it enough times, it becomes true!

  2. on leaking by bigmaddog · · Score: 5, Funny

    Maybe it's late and I'm looking to nitpick, but "it's obvious that past versions leaked like sieves" is a bold declaration that is rife with interesting implications that I don't think are strictly true.

    1. Sieves leak by design. Judging by the sheer quality of the leaking, you may think that FF also did this by design but that's probably not the case.
    2. When a sieve leaks, water entering from outside the system passes through the system at a constant rate. When FF leaks, the fixed amount of memory in your system is rendered unavailable at an arbitrary rate.
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    Even as you read this, your pants are strangling your loins! Aaa!

  3. Re:Overall, feels good and polished by gardyloo · · Score: 5, Funny

    Perhaps you should just talk to your mom about controlling her websurfing habit.

  4. Too bloated... by serviscope_minor · · Score: 5, Funny

    We need a rewrite that strips out all the bloat to make a lean, fast, bloat free browser out of a basically solid codebase. It'll be like it's risen from the ashes, so we need a name that reflects that. A name like "phoenix". I wonder if that's taken...

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  5. Re:Hmmm... by RealGrouchy · · Score: 5, Funny

    A MS internal beta version of IE8 reportedly passes Acid2. That's a bit different from "IE is suddenly compliant."

    Those of you watching from home from an IE browser, please don't attempt the Acid2 test, or you might do further damage to the test.

    - RG>

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    Hey pal, this isn't a pleasantforest, so don't waste my time with pleasantries!
  6. Re:well... by hkmarks · · Score: 2, Funny

    In Soviet Russia, Linux runs Firefox!

    No, wait...

  7. Re:Modern attitude to bugs by shankarunni · · Score: 2, Funny

    This is really the worst part of modern software-development practices. When users complain about bugs, they are met with hostile demands to explain exactly, how to reproduce the bug[...]

    Yeah. Imagine their nerve. I can just see you at the doctor's office:

    You: "Hey, Doctor, I feel crappy. Do something!"

    Doctor: "Err, can you describe what you're feeling?"

    You: "Hey, what's all this hostile questioning? Are you doubting me? Huh? You're the doctor, smarty pants! Figure it out for yourself. Hmph! The nerve!"

  8. From the Firefox 2 source code... by arotenbe · · Score: 2, Funny

    int main(int argc, char *argv[])
    {
        new int [100000];
        do_browser();
    }

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  9. Re:Modern attitude to bugs by TheRealSync · · Score: 5, Funny

    There! See! You are doing it again! Stop being hostile, and fix my bug(s)!!!

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  10. Re:Memory Leaks? by Hal_Porter · · Score: 3, Funny
    I think at one point they claimed that Firefox was freeing the memory but Windows for some reason was not releasing it from the process firefox.exe. Which is kind of cool, because all the Firefox fans would then assume that Windows contains code like this

    BOOL GlobalFree ( HGLOBAL Mem )
    {
    #ifndef DOJ_SOURCE_CODE // Take out this shit before you show the damn lawyers Bill says or you will be fukken shot!!!1
    if ( (!_tcsicmp ( ProcessControlBlock.name, _T("FIREFOX.exe") )) && random() < HIPPY_SHAFTING_PROBABILITY )
        {
    // lol suck it hippies! Heil BillG! IE IE Ueber Alles, Ueber Alles in der welt!
        return( TRUE );
        }
    #endif // /Take out this shit before you show the damn lawyers Bill says or you will be fukken shot!!!1
     
    // free the memory.
    }
    --
    echo -e 'global _start\n _start:\n mov eax, 2\n int 80h\n jmp _start' > a.asm; nasm a.asm -f elf; ld a.o -o a;
  11. Re:Hmmm... by smittyoneeach · · Score: 2, Funny

    Screw honesty to the wall, man: this is marketing!

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  12. Re:Memory Leaks? by gbjbaanb · · Score: 4, Funny

    I suppose it depends... eg.

    "I can reproduce it. First logon to 'www.bigjugs.com', then I click the link to 'charlene' and I see a page of 500 thumbnail images. I click on each one in turn until about after image 220..... uerrmmm.. nevermind, I think I'm not sure I can reproduce it, there's just a memory leak that I saw once, umm maybe it has something to do with the back button code?"

  13. Re:well... by Drooling+Iguana · · Score: 2, Funny

    Well, if someone could write a version of emacs that works as a Firefox extension...

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