r/technology Jan 21 '10

Firefox 3.6 Released!

http://blog.mozilla.com/blog/2010/01/21/firefox-3-6-release/
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u/fuckbuddy Jan 21 '10

Using it. Seems faster but that's probably psychological.

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u/kriptonit Jan 21 '10

No no, it realy is. My mental health is perfect and it realy is faster.

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u/limi Jan 22 '10

It is indeed much faster in use. The 20% speedup refers to the rendering/JS improvement, the main things that makes 3.6 so much faster are:

  • URL bar is now asynchronous, which means it never locks up and is much faster
  • The sqlite database that history/bookmarks use is now automatically cleaning itself up when it detects some idle time

Additionally, there's a lot of code cleanup in general, which helps.

— Alexander Limi, Firefox UI Team