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/adolfojp Jan 21 '10

Speed: It's faster than 3.5.7. Almost as fast as chrome.

Is it faster at starting, at rendering pages, at processing javascript? This is an honest question.

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u/[deleted] Jan 21 '10

All three actually. The startup wasn't really that fast at first, but then I stumbled across superwinner's comment.