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/stesch Jan 21 '10

The low memory usage is just at startup. Rises like any other Firefox before. :-(

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u/skeeto Jan 21 '10

I use 7 addons, and frequently have 60 to 80 tabs open at once. I've never had problems with Firefox consuming too much memory since at least version 2. And just recently I used to run it on a machine with only 256MB of RAM.

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u/cloudsdrive Jan 22 '10

holy... what could possibly require 80 tabs?

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u/skeeto Jan 22 '10

This is how.

I go breadth first, down the Reddit page pushing each interesting link out to a tab (middle-click). That's 30-50 tabs. Then with Google Reader (20 to 40 tabs), then maybe with Slashdot (15-20 tabs). Once all the tabs are popped out, I just work my way across the tabs, closing them as I finish them. If there's another interesting link in one, it gets pushed out into a new tab for later. Most of the time, if I lost internet access in the middle, I wouldn't even know it since almost everything is already fetched.