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May 20, 2008

Firefox 3: Fastest Browser Alive!

Filed under: Uncategorized, firefox — kingkong @ 9:50 am

This most recent Firefox update release candidate 1, locked up it feature set it will include all bells and whistles its going to have aside from plug ins. It boast a giant speed up from Firefox 2, which i have currently installed on my system and the memory kill is outstanding but its still better than IE7, so i hope that definitely gets sorted out! TechWeb reports

Mozilla VP of engineering Mike Schroepfer claims that Firefox 3 is 9.3x faster than Microsoft Internet Explorer 7 and 2.7x faster than Firefox 2 in terms of JavaScript performance. In terms of Gmail message load time, he claims Firefox 3 is 6.8x faster than IE7 and 3.8x faster than Firefox 2. And he says Firefox 3 beats Apple’s Safari, which is also faster than Firefox 2.

Barring any major bugs the RC1 might become the final version of Firefox 3! If your already using FF3 be sure to type about:robots into the address bar to discover a fun little Easter egg. For a detailed list of what Firefox 3 has to offer, check out its release notes

I am currently going to try out the portable version and see if this hold true!

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