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Firefox 3 Benchmarks Show Huge Improvements

(Author’s Note: No, using a half topless woman is not a cheap gimmick to get you to read this article… it’s… art… with boobs… so technically, it’s boobs-art. Whatever, you wouldn’t understand, you aren’t as artistic as I am) Grant Gochnauer and Marc Chung sent in a slew of benchmarks for the nightly builds of Firefox [...]

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Firefox 3 Beta 2 Impressions: Awesome

ZDNet gave their impressions of the recently released Firefox 3 Beta 2 release and so far the comments are suggest the same thing: The memory and performance enhancements are awesome. Word on the street is that it’s snappy as hell, uses anywhere from 1/2 to 1/4 the memory Firefox 2 used, and is overall looking like [...]

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Gmail 2.0 Locking up Firefox

Ummm… am I the only one noticing this and going fucking nuts by it? Ever since Gmail “2.0″ rolled out with it’s amazingly new-exactly-the-same interface design and tweaked code to make it seem snappier, it has regularly been locking up Firefox for me… in the middle of work… killing off everything I’m doing. This is [...]

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Memory Usage: Firefox 2 vs Firefox 3

We’ve covered some very interesting articles in the past about some of the work going into improving the memory usage of Firefox 3 as Firefox 2 is currently a fat pig. Well it looks like Adrian over at ZDNet took the new Firefox 3 Beta 1 release out for a test drive with some relatively subjective [...]

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Mozilla Working Hard on Firefox Visual Refresh

Ars has a good piece discussing the hard work that Mozilla is putting together to visually refresh Firefox on all the major platforms (Windows XP/Vista, Linux, Mac). In the original post only Windows and Mac were mentioned specifically as the main targets for the visual-fidelity refresh, but after a lot of user outcry two (1, 2) [...]

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Mozilla Fixing Memory Leaks in Firefox 3

Grant Gochnauer sent this gem along, it looks like the Mozilla team is hard at work making Firefox 3 not suck as hard as Firefox 2 did when it came to memory usage. For those that don’t know, the longer you use Firefox, the more memory it leaks. It’s very common to have 1 tab [...]

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Firefox 3.0 – All About Offline Web Applications

PCMag did a damn interesting writeup of the new features coming in Firefox 3.0, namely the offline functionality is getting a swift kick in the pants and will make the first steps necessary to allow full web-application offline application… think of Gmail offline, Google Docs, Docs & Spreadsheets, etc… all offline. It looks like the support [...]

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