[pez]

firefox 3 does seem to be a bit slower than 2...and I don't think this time it's my computer.

 

[ZephyrSapphire]

After some tweaks, it runs faster than safari. Which is a good thing. 124k memory used with 5 tabs open. Amazing. Last night I opened about 20 tabs and still no lag.

 

[Nicolas2305]

MAYBE the key is that the browser itself take a bunch of memory for multiple uses but each tab/page open take less memory.

So if you just open a page and compare it to another browser, the other browser takes less memory but it you open 20 tags on each browser, firefox will take less memory than the other.

I have NOT tested this but it's just an opinion.

 

[ZephyrSapphire]

Firefox loading 20 tabs at one go. Not lagging. Once loaded, 170k memory used.
Safari, same 20 pages loading. lags quite a bit. 5 pages load. Others failed. Reload every other page one by one. Total: 160k at 5 pages loaded. 250k used when all pages loaded.

Not bad. Not bad at all.
No i am not firefox fanboy.

 

[Nicolas2305]

Quote:

Originally Posted by ZephyrSapphire /img/forum/go_quote.gif Firefox loading 20 tabs at one go. Not lagging. Once loaded, 170k memory used. Safari, same 20 pages loading. lags quite a bit. 5 pages load. Others failed. Reload every other page one by one. Total: 160k at 5 pages loaded. 250k used when all pages loaded. Not bad. Not bad at all. No i am not firefox fanboy.

Looks like what I said seem to be the case. The huge memory usage when few tabs are open seem to be coming from some background tasks to keep alive firefox functionalities.

 

[megawzrd]

I just installed it...so far it responds pretty good/snappy. First thing I had to get rid of was the crappy "awesome bar." Man that was pooh.

Here is the link for the addon for anyone who is interested in reverting back to the old url bar.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/6227

 

[Superpredator]

^

Yeah, the awesome bar rots. Nice idea until some kid's mom sees all the filthy sites he's been visiting, and it's annoying to boot.

 

[Dzjudz]

How do you turn that awful thing off?

 

[kwkarth]

1st security hole already reported... :-\

 

[krmathis]

Quote:

Originally Posted by kwkarth /img/forum/go_quote.gif 1st security hole already reported... :-\

Why am I not surprised!

Luckily the Firefox team are renowned to fix those security whole relatively fast.

 

[SactoMan101]

Quote:

Originally Posted by krmathis /img/forum/go_quote.gif Why am I not surprised! Luckily the Firefox team are renowned to fix those security whole relatively fast.

From what I've read the Mozilla developers now know how the breach works and they should post the 3.0.1 update probably early next week. If you're running the Windows and Mac versions you should get a notice of an automatic update to 3.0.1 very soon.

 

[XEN]

Nice and fast on OS X

 

[jeffreyj900]

I updated to it yesterday. So far so good.

 

[augustwest]

Another happy Opera user here, so I won't be switching over. But good luck to "Firefox", and their users.

Anything but IE is OK by me!

- augustwest

 

[krmathis]

Quote:

Originally Posted by XEN /img/forum/go_quote.gif Nice and fast on OS X

Indeed!
Its a clear step up compared to Firefox 2.