It’s faster!
Wow, Firefox 3.0 is faster. I’ve only used it a few seconds and already it feels snappy! More as I use it.
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November 20th, 2007 at 10:41 am
Firefox 3 sucks so much.. it literally sucks your CPU time. It’s using 50% of CPU when idling! Such piece of crap…
November 20th, 2007 at 10:56 am
On my Windows XP machine it’s only using 5% to 10% of my processor and that’s WHILE playing a video. So not sure why it’s taking so much on your machine.
November 20th, 2007 at 11:03 am
Firefox 3.0 has been stellar on my computer. Both the Mac and PC versions.
I actually switched back to it from Safari 3.0 on my Mac (been using Firefox on Windows since Phoenix 0.1 all those years ago).
November 20th, 2007 at 11:06 am
It may depend on what you have loaded; try it w/ a blank startup page and all plugins disabled.
Running gmail for example, my beta1 uses 10-30% cpu while the gmail app is pre-fetching email messages (or whatever else they are doing in the new version in the background). Using 50b to 185mb of ram.
Google reader, just sits quietly zero cpu and used about 20mb memory.
November 20th, 2007 at 11:08 am
Good read: http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/11/20/firefox-3-beta-1-the-memory-use-says-it-all/
November 20th, 2007 at 11:09 am
The Linux version works great at well, on both KDE and GNOME.
November 20th, 2007 at 12:00 pm
Safari for Windows is faster than Firefox!
November 20th, 2007 at 1:51 pm
Geeesh, memory leak bug-infested edition, as seems the trend of late, aka Apple. I am guessing it’s not working with the plug-in’s or something, but I got high memory on the desktop plug-in free. Better on ease-of-use, and Gecko 1.9 seems to provide a speed boost, but gawd it’s still a memory hog, 1.5 was about the last ver. I was happy with. Opera 9.5 beta’s cooking this Fox, but will wait for final.
“Running fine on Scoble’s XP machine” real world translation meaning it’s a dog, that or Vista.
November 20th, 2007 at 3:42 pm
Just downloaded and tried it. It is noticeably faster on Vista, however I could not really figure out what is new in it (I noticed a places folder at the top left hand side and read that it has support for offline applications).
It looks like there are some memory leaks because leaving it on for a while is making my system hang up frequently
November 20th, 2007 at 7:54 pm
Editing your post to mention that it’s a beta release might be a good idea.
November 21st, 2007 at 7:49 am
It’s amazing that you could tell it was so much faster after only a few seconds. Most of us would have to use it for minutes or even an hour before we could develop such an enlightened opinion.
November 21st, 2007 at 9:31 am
I gave the beta a try (http://abaditya.wordpress.com/2007/11/21/sandboxing-firefox-3-beta-and-first-impressions/) under Sandboxie and had the same experience as you. It does seem to be faster with more efficient memory management. But it could also be due to the many of the extensions being disabled due to incompatibility. The final version should be a good upgrade.
November 21st, 2007 at 10:46 am
Scott: it’s still faster after using it for a day. First impressions are usually correct, I’ve found.