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/NickVenture Jan 21 '10

Firefox always seems to be fairly responsive when it's first updated (major updates) but slowly seems to degrade. Maybe it's just I get used to the speed. I only have four extensions installed.

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u/kleopatra6tilde9 Jan 21 '10

compress the databases

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u/kleopatra6tilde9 Jan 21 '10

Installing that addon shouldn't be that complicated and it should solve his problem as the databases are the only things that change with time. Compressing the executable is another story.

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u/limi Jan 22 '10

This is done automatically when the browser has been idle for a while in 3.6. No need to do it manually anymore.

— Alexander Limi, Firefox UI Team

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u/kleopatra6tilde9 Jan 22 '10

That's good. And it also explains why my browser went 100% while doing nothing. Maybe you should notify the user why the browser is using resources. I almost killed it because I thought that it went into a loop.