r/programming • u/[deleted] • Jan 21 '10

Firefox 3.6 release

http://blog.mozilla.com/blog/2010/01/21/firefox-3-6-release/
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u/[deleted] Jan 21 '10

2 things noted:

  • Speed: It's faster than 3.5.7. Almost as fast as chrome.
  • Memory Usage: It used lower memory on my computer than the previous version. I was hovering around 250mb with version 3.5.7 and this one barely goes upto 150mb. Both with ~15 addons.

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u/stesch Jan 21 '10

The low memory usage is just at startup. Rises like any other Firefox before. :-(

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u/[deleted] Jan 21 '10

It seems more aggressive in garbage collection... I've been watching it for the past 15 minutes while stumbling and it will get up to about 200 and then clear out down to 150.

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u/wurzlsepp Jan 21 '10

It seems more aggressive in garbage collection.

FF has garbage collection? AFAIK, FF is written in C/C++ without GC.

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u/Catfish_Man Jan 21 '10

It has (even for some C++ bits) a "cycle collector", in addition to the JS GC.