Comments on: Close Firefox Daily http://www.pcmech.com/article/close-firefox-daily/ Helping Normal People Get Their Geek On Sun, 22 Nov 2009 13:07:33 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: Ben http://www.pcmech.com/article/close-firefox-daily/comment-page-1/#comment-31674 Ben Sat, 05 Sep 2009 06:03:51 +0000 http://www.pcmech.com/article/close-firefox-daily/#comment-31674 Wow, then try out Firefox 3.7 (agreed I'm posting 6 months in the future) but it's gone from 3.0 (a giant leap from 2.0) up to 3.5 (about ten times faster) to 3.6 and 3.7 in testing (about fifty times faster - subjectively). Running tests on my system show some 150 times (not percent) speed increases, and the lowest increase I found was 4 times faster. I can handle the maths for a 400% increase, but times is just a little mindblowing. Wow, then try out Firefox 3.7 (agreed I’m posting 6 months in the future) but it’s gone from 3.0 (a giant leap from 2.0) up to 3.5 (about ten times faster) to 3.6 and 3.7 in testing (about fifty times faster – subjectively). Running tests on my system show some 150 times (not percent) speed increases, and the lowest increase I found was 4 times faster.

I can handle the maths for a 400% increase, but times is just a little mindblowing.

]]> By: Jah http://www.pcmech.com/article/close-firefox-daily/comment-page-1/#comment-8697 Jah Fri, 14 Mar 2008 08:13:27 +0000 http://www.pcmech.com/article/close-firefox-daily/#comment-8697 good tip. sometimes it really gets out of hand. i am currently switching between FF2 and FF3 beta. I am a tab fiend and leave tabs open or just dont wanna bookmark them(I know I would never get back to the page, lol). With around 20 or 30 tabs open, FF2 consumes about 200-350MB memory(I have quite a few addons) and in FF3 with the same tabs open, it takes 100MB. It could be that half my addons are disabled but FF2 is still a major memory hog. Good news is that pretty soon, one will not have to worry about it. good tip. sometimes it really gets out of hand. i am currently switching between FF2 and FF3 beta. I am a tab fiend and leave tabs open or just dont wanna bookmark them(I know I would never get back to the page, lol). With around 20 or 30 tabs open, FF2 consumes about 200-350MB memory(I have quite a few addons) and in FF3 with the same tabs open, it takes 100MB. It could be that half my addons are disabled but FF2 is still a major memory hog. Good news is that pretty soon, one will not have to worry about it.

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