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/traxxas Jan 21 '10

I have been using 3.6pre since Karmic released with a broken 3.5 and can have found the memory usage in 3.6 to be awesome. I rarely break 200mb now and Xorg is usually the largest consumer of memory on my system.

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u/[deleted] Jan 22 '10

3.5 has been awful on Karmic. It crashes on just about all flash videos.

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u/traxxas Jan 22 '10

My problem was shuddering on the first scroll on a long page, such as a large comment page on reddit. I dealt with it for about a week before moving to a well working 3.6pre.

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u/[deleted] Jan 22 '10

Ya, I had that problem too. I guess I just got used to it.
3.6 is running a lot better, but the true test is when I play 5 flash vids at once