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Firefox Beta 7 [Locked] |
Sprawl-zero1eye-  Title: IGN Vault Staff
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Posts: 1,001
Registered: 2002-6-28 03:39:29
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Date Posted:
8/19/11 7:47pm
Subject:
Firefox Beta 7 |
It's been a long time since I've messed with betas for a web browser, but Firefox 7 promises memory optimizations. I'm often annoyed because I always leave Firefox with 10+ tabs open, and after a few hours, it is using easily over 600k+ of memory. It gets noticeable sluggish over time.
So far Firefox 7 is way faster. It feels faster. We shall see how it fares after a few days, as I just loaded it today.
Anyone else beta testing?
http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/channel/
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Speak-pkhq  Title: Sheep's bane
Posts: 113
Registered: 2002-7-7 21:32:14
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Date Posted:
8/19/11 7:47pm
Subject:
Firefox Beta 7 |
ff6 was just released what, 2-3 days ago? some of my addons still aren't updated 
and 600k? you mean 600MB? even 6000k is not much 
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Date Posted:
8/19/11 7:47pm
Subject:
Firefox Beta 7 |
Actually I went ahead and downloaded Aurora (8.0a2) to check out. Kinda bored anyway. |
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Date Posted:
8/19/11 7:47pm
Subject:
Firefox Beta 7 |
This is sort of interesting.
http://html5test.com/
303 and 9 bonus points out of a total of 450 points for Aurora (FF 8.0)
255 and 9 bonus points out of a total of 384 points for Palemoon 5.0 (modified FF 5.0)
141 and 5 bonus points out of a total of 450 points for Internet Explorer 9.0
All of those on Vista Home edition. I normally run FF 6 on Ubuntu 11.04. Not tested that one yet. |
Sprawl-zero1eye- Title: IGN Vault Staff
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Posts: 1,001
Registered: 2002-6-28 03:39:29
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Date Posted:
8/19/11 7:47pm
Subject:
Firefox Beta 7 |
Speak-pkhq posted:
ff6 was just released what, 2-3 days ago? some of my addons still aren't updated
and 600k? you mean 600MB? even 6000k is not much
hehe yeah 600,000k as the task manager shows it 
So far, I haven't closed Firefox 7 beta since I installed it, and I'm hovering around 300,000k so far.
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Tai-Daishar_MT  Title: Moderator
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Posts: 469
Registered: 2000-3-9 15:14:13
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Date Posted:
8/19/11 7:47pm
Subject:
Firefox Beta 7 |
Been playing around with Aurora so far with good results.
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Date Posted:
8/19/11 7:47pm
Subject:
Firefox Beta 7 |
And here is the results for FF 6.0 and Chromium 12 on Ubuntu 11.04. I kept the others in for easy comparison.
http://html5test.com/
303 and 9 bonus points out of a total of 450 points for Aurora (FF 8.0)
255 and 9 bonus points out of a total of 384 points for Palemoon 5.0 (modified FF 5.0)
141 and 5 bonus points out of a total of 450 points for Internet Explorer 9.0
312 and 9 bonus points out of a total of 450 points for FF 6.0
327 and 13 bonus points out of a total of 450 points for Chromium 12.0.742.112 |
Sprawl-zero1eye- Title: IGN Vault Staff
Reziztance iz Futile
Posts: 1,001
Registered: 2002-6-28 03:39:29
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Date Posted:
8/19/11 7:47pm
Subject:
Firefox Beta 7 |
I installed Aurora and it has been running nicely. Memory is down over 50%.
I really notice it when I've let it sit for a few hours, then come back. Firefox 5 would be sluggish until I restarted it.
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Mirkwood MUD, OneEye IvoryFang, Lord of the VampireZ (Retired)
AC Frostfell, Clan Z - Lvl 239 Grief Dagger (Retired)
WoW Lightbringer Alliance, Z Guild - Lvl 85 Combat Rogue (Retired)
Making iOS Apps these days at http://zsprawl.com/iOS |
