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Firefox 3 Beta 5 Released

Posted by Zonk on from the another-toy-for-the-weekend dept.

bunratty writes "Firefox 3 Beta 5 was released today. This last beta release sports performance-boosting improved connection parallelism. Not only has 'the memory leak' been fixed: Firefox now uses less memory than other browsers. This is not only according to Mozilla developers, but CyberNet and The Browser World as well. As for the Acid3 test, Firefox 3 Beta 5 scores only 71/100 compared to 75/100 for Safari 3.1 and 79/100 for the latest Opera 9.5 snapshot. The final release of Firefox 3 is expected in June."

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  1. Who cares about Safari? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Why would any Firefox user care about Safari? Is it because Apple is trying to trick people into installing it to bump up their market share? Anything in the subject that isn't about Firefox should be listed as off-topic.