finally you have something worth reading. I'll give it a try.
PS: opera 9.50 beta sucks. It hangs several times a day and screws up
with large history records (I set only 10000, which works well in IE &
firefox).
Roy Schestowitz wrote:
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> Firefox 3.0 RC 1 takes the lead on speed
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> | So, how does Firefox 3.0 RC 1 compare? This latest run of tests was run on
> | the same hardware and software platform as previous tests (to make sure
> | nothing had changed we re-ran some of the browsers to check that we got the
> | same results). Also added to the listing were Opera 9.27 and Opera 9.50 Beta
> | 2.
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> http://blogs.zdnet.com/hardware/?p=1887
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> Recent:
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> Firefox 3 Beta 5 twice as fast in the cloud: Mozilla
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> | Firefox browser developer, Mozilla Foundation, says the beta latest version
> | of its new browser is now twice as fast as the widely used Firefox 2.
> | According to Mozilla, the performance improvements are most apparent when
> | using cloud applications.
> |
> | Mozilla says in its release notes: "improvements to our JavaScript engine as
> | well as profile guided optimizations have resulted in continued improvements
> | in performance. Compared to Firefox 2, web applications like Google Mail and
> | Zoho Office run twice as fast in Firefox 3 Beta 5, and the popular SunSpider
> | test from Apple shows improvements over previous releases."
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> http://www.itwire.com/content/view/17457/1054/
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> 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
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> 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
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> 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
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> 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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