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- YouAreDead, on 12/05/2008, -4/+33they should add the feature of 1 process per tab
will make it as responsive as chrome is - TheJimid, on 12/05/2008, -1/+25Just in time for the holiday season.
I know its free but a week after you convert someone from IE to firefox they think your a genius. - roger6106, on 12/05/2008, -0/+19I also have Firefox running all day, but I haven't run into this problem. You may have an extension (or a combination of extensions) that are causing these problems.
- polyp2000, on 12/05/2008, -1/+15CSS word-wrap support please...
N. - chrisgeleven, on 12/05/2008, -0/+13Anyone know if TraceMonkey (the new super fast JavaScript engine) has been turned on by default yet?
Firefox 3.1 Beta 1 did not have it on by default. - Mundo, on 12/05/2008, -2/+14Scores 93/100 on the Acid3 test.
- ctrlfreak13, on 12/05/2008, -0/+12According to the Firefox team's meeting notes its in quality assurance now and they're running ahead of schedule and I believe they're supposed to finish today :)
https://wiki.mozilla.org/Platform#Meeting_Notes
https://wiki.mozilla.org/Releases/Firefox_3.1b2
https://wiki.mozilla.org/QA/Firefox3.1/TestPlan/Be ... - thegreatanti, on 12/05/2008, -0/+11Well, consider yourself lucky then, Fx 3.1 will support this feature.
- litkaj, on 12/05/2008, -1/+11Done.
- litkaj, on 12/05/2008, -1/+10That's not (necessarily) Beta 2. That's a nightly build that is a candidate to become Beta 2.
- thegreatanti, on 12/05/2008, -0/+8FUD.
- Smokeydabear, on 12/05/2008, -7/+14I really like firefox, but if I have it running on my Mac all day (starting at 9 a.m.) it starts to go ***** crazy and not display web pages properly. I have to shut it down and relaunch the thing. It did this with the old version and I hoped it would stop with the new firefox. It didn't, but maybe this update will solve those problems.
- Fergy, on 12/05/2008, -3/+10I wonder what you call spiraling out of control. I have firefox 3.0 open for 10 hours with 60+ tabs and it uses only 350MB with heavy javascript sites. That's barely 6MB per tab which is the amount it just needs because of all the javascript and images.
- comrade693, on 12/05/2008, -0/+7Yes, it has.
- FredFredrickson, on 12/05/2008, -1/+8Why?
- inactive, on 12/05/2008, -0/+7Good at least I'll get something for Christmas.
- Mejogid, on 12/05/2008, -1/+7I guess that explains why he said it will "be released the first week of December" rather than "at the beginning of the first week of December"...
- hawksfan03, on 12/05/2008, -0/+6i've been using the 3.1 beta from the nightly builds for a while now and I have had very few issues.
- linkdj, on 12/05/2008, -0/+6you're*
- derek20cali, on 12/05/2008, -0/+5Put your e-peen away.
- sarixe, on 12/05/2008, -1/+6beg some more... then we'll consider it.
- Induane, on 12/05/2008, -0/+5chrome isn't exactly light on the mem usage dude.
- tas08, on 12/05/2008, -3/+7You mean like the way Chrome does it?
If it is then I may have to switch back when they roll this out, assuming that means it will solve the problem of FF going crazy when left running for too long and make it load as fast as Chrome. Exciting news. - HillerMylife, on 12/05/2008, -0/+4Yeah, I haven't encountered this either and I run FF on my Mac all day, too. Curious.
- neFariou5, on 12/05/2008, -1/+51 process per tab isn't a feature, it's a rewrite. Also mozilla have also said they have no intent on doing it.
- Induane, on 12/05/2008, -1/+5Chrome is a good browser but its heavy on the memory usage, and by design. The use of multiple processes/threads for each tab means there is a lot more allocation going on and much higher memory usage for common tasks. The good thing is computers have lots to spare these days and it adds some stability. Still though, uses more memory than firefox. The memory leaks in FF3 seem to be pretty well contained these days.
- Smokeydabear, on 12/05/2008, -0/+4I mean it is not a huge problem, I just shut it down then start it up again. I only have to do that once a day. The benefits of using this browser outweigh the costs any day of the week.
- comrade693, on 12/05/2008, -0/+43.2 alpha isn't out. You might be confused with nightly builds...
- Data33, on 12/05/2008, -0/+4Yeah, I agree with Fergy.
The memory leaks were far worse back in pre FF 3.x - derek20cali, on 12/05/2008, -0/+3lrn2english.
- FredFredrickson, on 12/05/2008, -0/+3I used to have that problem too, and it turned out that my work computer (also a Mac) was corrupting the fonts in the application (and in my widgets, too).
- litkaj, on 12/05/2008, -3/+6That would also probably help with the current (3.0) memory usage spiraling out of control after you've been using it for a few hours.
- neFariou5, on 12/05/2008, -0/+3Why not? I used Firefox beta as my main browser.
- fujikofujio, on 12/05/2008, -1/+4I've been using Firefox 3.2 alpha and it's been stable for me. http://sitegeisha.blogspot.com/2008/12/firefox-32- ...
- anonymous1986, on 12/05/2008, -0/+3Yeah but the sunspider javascript for opera does not make good reading: 5,740.8, compared to 2,787.6 FF 3.1 beta 1 (i get 2300 on my comp) and chrome 1900 on my computer.
http://news.cnet.com/8301-17939_109-10113913-2.htm ...
Unfortunately, however good opera gets, it just does not have the resources/advertising power to enable it to make a significant inroad into the browser compared to IE, Firefox, Safari and Chrome. I predict it will eventually die out, although definitely not within the next 5 yrs. - bpwned, on 12/05/2008, -0/+3Canvas performance increase please...
Seriously, I'm working on a game using that and if I want better graphics I need better performance. And/or a 3d (opengl) rendering context... - Mundo, on 12/05/2008, -0/+3Well it works on my Celeron 700MHz..
- HorseloverFat8, on 12/05/2008, -0/+3No.
- Smokeydabear, on 12/05/2008, -1/+4I love how everyone is slightly attacking me with the a "your company's computer guy" attitude. This isn't even a problem, it is a minor annoyance. So far I have yet to see anyone on here dish up an explanation as to why this is happening. If you're so elitist when it comes to Apple computers, what the ***** is wrong on this one? Huh Capt. Douche?
- BlakkSheep, on 12/05/2008, -1/+4Gooooooooo FIREFOX!
- PhailQuail, on 12/06/2008, -0/+2That's what they said about tabs in Nautilus
- Barence, on 12/06/2008, -0/+2I'd regularly find it using 500MB after a few hours at work, got to the point where I had to change to stop my whole system grinding to a halt, and I can't bear IE8. Just my experience.
- YouAreDead, on 12/06/2008, -0/+2I have a quad core
- Unnis, on 12/05/2008, -0/+2Beta software is used in production because of issues with the "stable" branch.
The current "stable" version is Firefox 3.0, and I found severe performance issues with that browser. The two ways I can that it is to downgrade to Firefox 2.0 (which isn't an ideal option) or choose the beta. - anonymous1986, on 12/05/2008, -0/+2A measure of browser speeds: http://news.cnet.com/8301-13505_3-10107591-16.html and http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,2845,2335256 ...
Based on our arbitrary score assignments, Google Chrome is the speed king:
* Google Chrome—30 points
* Mozilla Firefox—20 points
* Opera—10 points
* Did not place: IE7, Safari
I find that chrome runs fastest for me, followed by firefox 3.1 beta 1 (with flashget, adblock, noscript, tabmixplus and speed dial) followed closely by opera. But then again that's just on my computer. - Tooch07, on 12/06/2008, -0/+2Has anyone had Google Maps problems when searching for something on FF 3.1b1? Specifically, if you search for something that results with the A, B, C, etc. place markers, it doesn't show the results and clicking on a letter doesn't do anything?
- comrade693, on 12/05/2008, -0/+2Those are candidates - not the actually beta
- hdragomir, on 12/05/2008, -0/+2it's guys like you that make web developers very, very sad.
- Archer007, on 12/05/2008, -0/+2Can you buy FF3 disks?
- Ranvier, on 12/05/2008, -0/+2This disagrees.
http://www.linuxhaxor.net/2008/12/04/firefox-night ... -
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