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Information Technology News Firefox 3.0 beta 3 released with 1300 changes!
Information Technology News Firefox 3.0 beta 3 released with 1300 changes! | Firefox 3.0 beta 3 released with 1300 changes! |
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| by Alex Zaharov-Reutt | |
| Wednesday, 13 February 2008 | |
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Page 3 of 3 Firefox 2.0 has always, to me at least, seemed a bit slower than IE7, and at times that has annoyed me for the few microseconds longer that Firefox took to display a page. Featured Whitepaper
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Mozilla says that these changes include ‘the move to Cairo and a rewrite to how reflowing a page layout works’. There’s also the topic of memory usage, where a whopping 350+ ‘individual memory leaks have been plugged’, while a ‘new XPCOM cycle collector completely eliminates many more’. However we can expect even more from the final version of Firefox 3.0, with developers continuing to work on optimizing memory use (by releasing cached objects more quickly) and reducing fragmentation. In total, Mozilla says that Firefox 3.0 Beta 3 includes ‘more than 50 improvements to memory use over the previous beta’ - hooray for that! So, Firefox 3.0 really looks like being a major improvement that any existing Firefox user will race to download once the final version is ready, unless you just can’t wait and want to be part of the beta testing process now. Microsoft – you’d better hurry up with IE8, and it’d better be pretty spectacular, or you’ll find yourself outsmarted, outplayed, outwitted and outbrowsered by foxiest Firefox yet! |
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