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Firefox 3 Performance Gets a Boost

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the powers-of-ten dept.

jason writes "Mozilla has been working hard at making Firefox 3 faster than its predecessor, and it looks like they might be succeeding. They've recently added some significant JavaScript performance improvements that beat out all of the competition, including Opera 9.5 Beta. And it comes out to be about ten times faster than Internet Explorer 7! Things are really starting to fall into place for Firefox 3 Beta 4 which should be available in the next week or two."

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  1. Re:Safari by larry+bagina · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    which extensions prevents firefox from being a memory hog?

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  2. Re:Safari by RiotingPacifist · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Also
    90% of firefox's memory 'bloat' came from its aggressive caching.
    Who cares about memory usage, memory is cheap if you cant afford 100MB, you should probably go back to links anyway, its saves on CPU usage, and upgrading your CPU to handle the latest web browser well (say IE7) is going to set you back abit more.
    Whats the point in having a gig in your system if applications arnt going to use it because it would be called bloat
    the setting have always been tweak able to reduce the memory usage, hell compile it with -Os and tweak the settings im sure 90% of the 'bloat' will disappear
    FF3 comes with a few memory fixes that probably fix most of whats left.

    *on a side not Ive experienced 2 bugs on this page in FF3b3 which i didn't see when i was using FF3b2, i hope the streamlined code isn't buggier code.

    whats the opera extension (o wait you dont have any :P) that makes it as fast as FF3 ?

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