Apr 25
Firefox 3.5 Beta 4 significantly faster in Linux
Let’s face it, Firefox isn’t exactly the fastest browser around. In Linux it’s worse, in fact, Windows Firefox through Wine in Linux is faster than Linux Firefox.
Tuxradar benchmark Firefox 3.5 Beta 4′s performance and the results are very optimistic.
I use Firefox and Opera in Ubuntu and I prefer Opera in terms of speed but it just never felt quite like a native application in Ubuntu. Firefox just doesn’t appear as responsive sometimes.
Possibly related:
I prefer Firefox to any browser in terms of speed, I’ve tried them all and in my experience Firefox has been faster, through optimization, than any other browser I’ve tried (yes I’ve tried Opera, Chrome, IE8 and Safari). Please don’t say “Let’s face it” as if we’ve all been denying a blatant fact.
Apr 26
Daniel Bloor: What sort of optimization have you done? Care to share?
Apr 26
I haven’t done any optimisations myself, but FireFox 3.5b4 is still quite speedy and responsive. Of course, it can’t beat Chrome and Opera on absolute speed, but it’s quite a nice mix of extensibility (through add-ons), memory usage and speed.
May 02