Firefox 3's better performance and memory improvements
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| At the Mozilla "open house", Mike Schroepfer, Mozilla Corporation vice
| president of engineering said that beta 5 of Firefox 3 will come out next
| week. It will be the last beta before release candidate 1, which is due for
| May; Firefox 3 should ship in June or before, if possible.
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http://www.builderau.com.au/blogs/syslog/viewblogpost.htm?p=339270943
It seems like the extensions idea is being increasingly adopted by
OpenOffice.org, which helps avoid Microsoft Office-like bloat (heaps of
unnecessary features nobody uses or needs anyway).
New features in OpenOffice.org 2.4.0 (available now)
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| When updating extensions, OpenOffice.org will launch the web browser to the
| appropriate web pages for more convenient updating. Extensions can have
| non-geeky-looking display names, but if the publisher omits the display name,
| the geeky-looking filename is used instead. Extension publishers can include
| links to their sites and to release notes.
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http://www.oooninja.com/2008/03/new-features-openofficeorg-240.html
ODF guerillas rally for document freedom
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| "But [OOXML] fails the test for an Open Standard in various ways, including
| an unclear legal status as well as inclusion of and reference to proprietary
| technologies. It has all signs of a vendor-specific format that only
| Microsoft will be able to implement completely," the group writes on its
| site.
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http://www.zdnetasia.com/news/software/0,39044164,62039467,00.htm?scid=rss_z_nw
Related:
Mozilla speeds up Firefox
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| Firefox 3.0, released this week, is dramatically faster than its predecessor
| and rivals, benchmark tests claim -- the result of hundreds of performance
| improvements designed to make the open-source browser the best at running
| complex Web 2.0 applications, Mozilla's chief developer said this week.
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http://www.linuxworld.com.au/index.php/id;1185319451;fp;2;fpid;1
Firefox 3 Beta 4 is 5x faster than IE7, 3x faster than FF2
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| The almost-but-not-quite-final beta of Firefox 3 (FF3 beta 4) is now
| available for download. The most noticeable improvement is speed. In some
| tests, it’s three times faster than Firefox 2 (meaning the test completes in
| 1/3 the time), and a whopping five times faster than IE 7...
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http://blogs.zdnet.com/Burnette/?p=548
Mozilla: Firefox 3 beats IE7 and Opera in memory tests
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| Work done to plug Firefox's memory leaks and reduce its RAM profile has paid
| off, two of Mozilla's engineers said Friday, as they claimed that the newest
| beta of their open-source browser uses less memory than rivals such as
| Internet Explorer and Opera.
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http://www.linuxworld.com.au/index.php?id=1368883081&rid=-50
Firefox 3 Memory Usage
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| Looking at the graph:
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| * All browsers increase in memory use slightly over time, but the Firefox
| 3 slope is closer to 0.
| * The peak of Firefox 3 is lower than the terminal size of Firefox 2!
| * The terminal state of Firefox 3 is nearly 140MB smaller than Firefox 2.
| 60% less memory!
| * IE7 doesn’t appear to give any memory back, even after all the windows
| are closed!
| * Firefox 3 ends up about 400mb smaller than IE7 at the end of the test!
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http://blog.pavlov.net/2008/03/11/firefox-3-memory-usage/
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