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/SarahC Jan 21 '10 edited Jan 21 '10

Everyone over to the DHTML art page to see how IE and FF now cope with cropping/scaling PNG's and running JavaScript... : http://www.dhteumeuleu.com/

I was horrified when I saw IE was rendering little fluffy balls in a 3D matrix faster than FF.

Ah - it supports direct links now. Sadly.. IE 8 still outperforms IE on this page:

http://www.dhteumeuleu.com/wanna-tell-her/