p2pnet - rss feed: Firefox 3: trimmed memory usage
p2pnet news | Products:- The, “enormous amount of effort that developers invested in boosting resource efficiency for Firefox 3 has paid off, and the results are very apparent during day-to-day use,” says Ars Technica’s Ryan Paul .
“During intensive browsing with approximately 50 tabs, I have found that Firefox 3 generally consumes less than half of the memory used by Firefox 2.0.0.12,” he says.
“Firefox 3 is also snappier and more responsive when switching between tabs and performing other operations that typically lag in Firefox 2.0.0.12 when the browser is experiencing heavy load.”
How was this achieved?
Click here for chapter-and-verse from Mozilla developer Stuart Parmenter.
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Also See:
Ars Technica - Firefox 3 goes on a diet, eats less memory than IE and Opera, March 17, 2008
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March 18th, 2008 at 2:38 pm
It really is better.
March 18th, 2008 at 7:16 pm
I hope that it consumes less memory than Firefox2 because FF2 is a memory hog. I remember I had 5 tabs open and I like in taskmanager to see much memory FF2 was currently and I was shock to see that it was using 200,000 megs of ram, 200,000!!!! that a lot of ram to be consumed by a internet browser.
March 20th, 2008 at 10:12 am
Still takes forever to load.