Firefox 3 Spanks Opera and IE 7

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Firefox 3.0 Beta 4, which Mozilla released late Monday, has been put through its paces by users and bloggers, some of whom have published the results of head-to-head benchmark tests among Firefox, Opera, Apple Inc.'s Safari and Microsoft Corp.'s Internet Explorer. According to Percy Cabello, who posted his results on the Mozilla Links blog, Firefox 3.0 Beta 4 is 53% faster than Opera 9.5 beta, twice as fast as Safari and three times faster than IE7 on the SunSpider benchmark, which tests JavaScript performance.

http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&taxonomyName=open_source&articleId=9068118&taxonomyId=88&intsrc=kc_top

Looks real promising.

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So if I use that, My interwebs runs twice as fast??

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The beta of the new firefox I tried was slow as fuck :frowning:

Hopefully the release will be better.

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any safari comparisons? What about memory usage?

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x2

IMO, FireFox has slid downhill since they released 2.0. They seem to be lacking the innovation that initially drew me to it. That and that fact that FireFox EATS memory like whoa.

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that can be changed with a .5 second registry edit.

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^^ not always. i’ve done such edit and still eats away when i leave it open.

Opera FTW

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True, but that’s the point. If I’m going to switch to a new browser, I don’t want to be editing my registry just to get the damn thing to work like it should. FireFox was initally written to be a small, lightweight, and fast browser. Now it’s bloated, slower (although not truly slow), and I have to edit the registry just to have it not eat RAM? Meh. I’ll steer clear till they can get it right.

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ITS A FEATURE FOR FAST BROWSING!!! It caches the pages so when you go back (which i do constantly) it loads extremely quickly.

there are a few ways to do this too

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yeah, firefox is bad at that.

a few versions ago I had closed firefox, but it was still running in the background for some reason. I went to close it through the task manager and it was eating up around 600mb of memory

haven’t noticed too much lately though… usually around 100 or so

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If fireslut is eating more than 130mb of memory i have to shut it down, most of the time its ok.

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i’ve never had a problem with firefox. IE blows.

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the previous firefox 3 beta was pretty slow, but they just released an update a few days ago and it’s been running really good on my laptop…very fast. New interface is nice…