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Firefox 8 20% Faster Than Firefox 5

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the pedal-on-the-right dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Thanks to continued improvements to start-up and first paint performance, tweaks to memory footprint and garbage collection, and the addition of a new 2D graphics backend called Azure, Firefox 8 is some 20% faster than Firefox 5 across all major metrics — and actually about equal with Chrome 14 on JavaScript and 2D rendering performance. Azure (which is new with Firefox 7) replaces Cairo, and instead of dealing with Direct2D and Quartz, it allows Firefox to deal directly with the Direct3D and OpenGL subsystems — resulting in a 20% speed boost under Windows, and probably even more under OS X."

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  1. First post by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Your post could've been here if you had a faster web browser.

  2. Firefox 6 is already old-and-busted by MetalliQaZ · · Score: 5, Funny

    Firefox 6 is so out of date, my parents will probably use it when it comes out.

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  3. For those confused by Samantha+Wright · · Score: 5, Informative

    FF8 is the nightly branch, FF7 is the smaller-than-beta branch ("aurora"), and FF6 is the alpha branch. Mozilla hasn't suddenly started to number their versions geometrically, although that would be hilarious.

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  4. Wow, talk about version inflation by Fnkmaster · · Score: 5, Insightful

    You fools are only benchmarking Firefox 8!! Well I benchmarked Firefox 14 and it's plus 10 faster than Firefox 4.

    I appreciate the benefits of rapid versioning and release cycles, but really, this is ridiculous.

  5. Re:What about Firefox 6? by Infiniti2000 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Agreed. I thought I was reading The Onion.

  6. Firefox 61 by jabberw0k · · Score: 5, Interesting

    By my calculations, if Firefox had started this version numbering scheme with its start in 2004, we would now be running Firefox 61.

    If they Mozilla had adopted it in 1998, this would be Firefox 113.

    Bonkazoids.

  7. Great... yet another version of Firefox to support by leonbev · · Score: 5, Informative

    We just got our web site rendering correctly under Firefox 5, and now there not one but THREE new versions in beta that we also need to test with.

    Just a quick note from the web developers and web site QA testers around the world to the Firefox development team... you're really starting to piss us off.

  8. Re:What about Firefox 6? by brian6string · · Score: 5, Funny

    Firefox 8: "The Ocho"

  9. Re:What about Firefox 6? by rudy_wayne · · Score: 5, Funny

    Firefox 8 has a version number that is 100% greater than Firefox 4. Now there's a big improvement for you.