[TriLUG] Firefox 3 WAS Re: Where is Linux today?

Ritesh Kumar ritesh at cs.unc.edu
Thu Jun 19 13:30:13 EDT 2008


On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 1:18 PM, Douglas A. Whitfield <douglasawh at gmail.com>
wrote:

> On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 1:12 PM, Tim Jowers <timjowers at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> >  E.g. Firefox seems to use memory as
> > inefficiently as Internet Explorer.
>
>
> I've had zero issues since using version 3 Beta 5, though I haven't used it
> once on Windows and hope I never have to.  But, I am curious.  Are people
> having performance issues with 3?


I definitely think its better than firefox 2. Muuuuch better :)
After some use with gmail, gcalendar since morning, I am at 105M mem usage
on windows XP.
Performance (as in UI and rendering snappiness) seems to be really good. I
guess memory usage is more complicated to handle properly.

_r



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