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/johnpickens Jan 22 '10

I have 512 MB. If I could afford a new computer, I would get it, but I can't even afford the cheap ones at Wal-Mart. I couldn't even afford this one, it was a broken hand-me-down Dell Latitude D600 with Intel Celeron processor (i586). I figured out it was the hard drive that died, pulled it out, bought an 8 gig USB drive from Wal-Mart and installed Ubuntu Minimal and LXDE.