Firefox 3 Beta 5 released

[alfhenrik]

Mozilla says Firefox 3 Beta 5 is “fastest Firefox ever”

Firefox 3 beta 5 (http://www.tgdaily.com/content/view/36756/140/)

Seems that Mozilla is concentrating some of their effort at building a quicker Internet browser...which is good :razz:

[ZhengHe]

Firefox 3 beta 5 (http://www.tgdaily.com/content/view/36756/140/)

Seems that Mozilla is concentrating some of their effort at building a quicker Internet browser...which is good :razz:

That's wonderful, but I would question whether or not this thread is just a tiny bit misplaced. Perhaps General Applications & Utilities would be a better fit.

[Miker]

Firefox will be a OS someday. XD

:yes:

[bobletman]

woot ff ftw, ie ftl.

[alfhenrik]

D'Oh! A bit tired this morning as I've been working most of the night and only gotten a few hours sleep...so could someone please move this thread to it's proper location -> General Applications & Utilities

Thank you.

[PP Mguire]

Got this beta and WOW im lovin 3 already even in the Beta stages. It remembers your downloads if something happens!! YAY

[Enigmachine]

I read that they reduced the memory usage of firefox, that's the thing that's really killing me with Opera; most of the time it takes about 500 megs of ram.

So maybe, just maybe I'll switch to firefox. I like Opera, it's clean, simple and it just works, but I usually load a ton of apps at the same time (browser, game & compiler and text editor all at the same time, this morning is an exeption I only have my mail, WoW and Opera loaded. :) so anything that uses less ram is a win for me...

I'm going to wait for the release though. :)

[PP Mguire]

Holy crap 500megs?? The most ive seen Firefox use (2.0) was like 70meg tops.

[Xero (1)ne]

Holy crap 500megs?? The most ive seen Firefox use (2.0) was like 70meg tops.

I've gotten Firefox to use over a Gig before I had so many tabs and I was copy/pasting so much text into it. It was using all my CPU so I just had to end it. :magic:

[Miker]

I've gotten Firefox to use over a Gig before I had so many tabs and I was copy/pasting so much text into it. It was using all my CPU so I just had to end it. :magic:

Firefox has a memory leak, if you play a lot of flash on some versions you will take up 500m-1G easy.

[Xero (1)ne]

Yah I had like 20 tabs open with youtube. The other 60 were stuff that I just forgot about that I was looking up but didn't want to close out of at that time.

[coxmaster]

Seriously?? 2GB From Opera? Im using Opera 9.50Beta as well as using the mail client portion. Im watching 2 videos on youtube and have about 6 tabs open also an im using 162,000KB of memory...

[Enigmachine]

Firefox has a memory leak, if you play a lot of flash on some versions you will take up 500m-1G easy.

I think Flash has a memory leak actually; just go to pimprig (pcapex) and leave the top banner running all night and Opera will be using 1 - 1.5 g in the morning...

It used to happen with pdf's too, but I haven't tested that out lately.

Right now I have 18 tabs opened on Opera and it's using only 146 megs, so I'm pretty sure the ram usage depends on the contents and plugins (and huge history buffer), not entirely on Opera.

[TomatoSlayer]

Those with the beta, go to about:robots.

I usually use Opera, but I use Firefox when checking my gmail. I'm running Opera with about 12 tabs at a time, and it's currently using about 150MB of RAM.

[Xero (1)ne]

Right now I'm running FF 2.0.0.13 with a B3D tab (this response), a Newegg tab, and an Asus FTP tab. I'm also downloading a manual for the Crosshair II Formula. It's using ~103Mb and 0-2% cpu. I'm also running a theme on FF in addition to 5 plugins.

One thing I don't like about Opera is it's interface. In Windows I can't tell a speed difference between it and FF but in Linux FF runs much better.