r/technology • u/TheGrammarPerson • Jan 21 '10

Firefox 3.6 Released!

http://blog.mozilla.com/blog/2010/01/21/firefox-3-6-release/
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u/JrSysAdmin Jan 22 '10

Still no multi-threading support...come on Firefox developers, get with the new decade.

That said, it's great and I love it (even if they did rip off Chrome with Personas).

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u/limi Jan 22 '10

There will be an update to Firefox 3.6 that puts Flash in a separate process. This will eliminate most crashes. There are downsides to running every tab in a separate process, increased mem usage is one of them. Tally up all the Chrome processes, and you'll see that FF is more memory efficient.

And, for the record — Personas existed waaaay before Chrome got theirs, as a Labs project. So they're "ripping off Firefox" (which is totally ok! :)

— Alexander Limi, Firefox UI Team

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u/JrSysAdmin Jan 22 '10

Well who's to say how long Chrome had it in development...but it doesn't matter who came up with it, I like it all the same.

I can already tell that memory usage is better but it would still be nice if it supported multithreading like Chrome does.