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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. Adblock Plus by SonicEarth · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Adblock Plus doesn't work.

  2. Re:So obsessed with memory? by Hannes2000 · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Responsiveness is directly related to memory usage. A Browser just should not eat up a fourth (500MiB) of my memory. And think of those with lesser hardware, you insensitive clod!