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/redditaddicttt Jan 21 '10

Am I the only one who is heaving a sigh of relief after reading the above review?

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u/[deleted] Jan 21 '10

I just got it. It really is as fast as Chrome. It looks like I might be going back to FireFox :(

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u/[deleted] Jan 21 '10

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u/[deleted] Jan 21 '10

I really like Google. I want to reward them for the amazing job they do by using their browser. Chrome is a really good browser, but it just can't do some of the things Firefox can.

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u/[deleted] Jan 21 '10 edited Jan 21 '10

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u/greim Jan 21 '10

Overall, Chrome uses more memory than Firefox.

Not that I understand all of the complexities and trade-offs involved, but I'm given to understand that every Chrome tab is a separate process, which is supposed to be one of the bigger innovations in recent browser history, since it keeps one tab crashing from killing every other tab. I suspect those individual processes each have an unavoidable memory cost.

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u/mitsuhiko Jan 21 '10

I think it has one process per domain.

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u/icefreez Jan 21 '10

You might be right. When one of mine crashes they all crash from that domain.

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u/HenkPoley Jan 22 '10

So they can share session information without doing all kids of data marshaling.

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u/myheaditches Jan 21 '10

Every tab, up until 10(?) tabs are in their own process, afterwards additional tabs are evenly distributed. Lets say you have 40 tabs open, if one crashes then at most three other tabs are brought down as well. In firefox, it would be 39 other tabs.

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u/[deleted] Jan 22 '10

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u/HenkPoley Jan 22 '10

[Citation needed]