Comments on: Firefox 3: how to rock on a memory budget

By: level

level — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 05:31:40 +0000

> Opera 9.5beta … releases down to 220 MB
The comment says that
> doesnâ€™t free up any memory at the end (so ends at 240MB).

And here is the updated graph with Opera 9.5 and Safari.
memory-graph2 on Flickr – Photo Sharing!
http://www.flickr.com/photos/stuartp/2328802961/

By: Joshi

Joshi — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 15:12:51 +0000

For me, with no add-ons, the browser starts up in less than 1 second (512MB Ram intel p4 2,8 ghz 80GB hd). Very cool! Compared to ff2, which is 4 s, it is a 4 time run!

By: When minds collide

When minds collide — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 09:26:40 +0000

Firefox 3 has major mamory management overhaul

Although we all love to use Firefox, we have to admit it’s not the fastest app to launch. I always thought that its bottleneck was its modular XUL plug-in technology. After all, extracting plug-ins from compressed containers, then interpreting an…

By: Fair and Square

Fair and Square — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 01:44:56 +0000

Where are the results for:

Internet Explorer 8 (IE8)
Opera 9.26
Opera 9.50 Beta
Safari 3

Although the new improvement are nice, it would be better to see a super lightweight Firefox Lite Editon. This would be a step toward Firefox Mobile Edition.

Internet Explorer Mobile – Yes
Opera Mobile – Yes
Safari Mobile – Yes
Firefox Mobile – No

By: Mozilla is Dead Serious in Making Firefox 3 “The Best” « Lingua Franca

Thu, 13 Mar 2008 20:01:12 +0000

[...] Memory Management:Â Several new technologies work together to reduce the amount of memory used by Firefox 3 Beta 4 over a web browsing session.Â Memory cycles are broken and collected by an automated cycle collector, a new memory allocator reduces fragmentation, hundreds of leaks have been fixed, and caching strategies have been tuned.Â For more technical information regarding memory leakage, please click here. [...]

By: Rasmus

Rasmus — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 13:27:43 +0000

I would like to see the specs for Safari. The other day I browsed their site, and they claimed that they were pretty much better at everything. KTHML or WebKit should be pretty efficient, as far as I have heard.

K-Meleon is actually nice. You may catch me using it. I also enjoy Lynx or W3M at times.
-Rasmus

By: Matt

Matt — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 03:24:46 +0000

I’m thoroughly enjoying this browser war. You won’t catch me using any browser other than Firefox, but it’s great to see the competition struggle.

By: steveballmer

steveballmer — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 01:45:03 +0000

IE 5 even makes this crap look like ….. crap!

By: Tiago SÃ¡

Tiago SÃ¡ — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 20:22:57 +0000

I’m definitely enjoying this. Firefox 3 is a bit heavier than Firefox 2 when we start browsing, but while Firefox 2 would increase its memory usage over time, Fx3 won’t and will instead stay at reasonable levels. Also, it handles 60+ extensions a lot better than Fx2 did, which is simply awesome for guys like me that use 60+ extensions :P