Gran Paradiso Alpha 3 187
kbrosnan writes "Gran Paradiso Alpha 3 is a release of the Gecko rendering engine for testing purposes only. Here are the release notes. While this release uses the interface of Firefox, no significant interface changes have been made. These alpha releases focus on making improvements to the core elements: graphics, JavaScript, page rendering, etc."
Re:Release notes and comments (Score:2, Interesting)
ppl like you prefer the eye-candyless w2k.
and i now hear ppl saying it about XP since vista is out (including me).
and i'm pretty sure ppl will say the same about vista once the successor is released.
so like someone earlier posted:
it's ok to live in the past
(for a while at least)
we don't want to come to a total halt in technology
Re:Changes. (Score:3, Interesting)
The click makes it very clear when the browser is sucking ass, and when it is not
Re:Release notes and comments (Score:3, Interesting)
Re:redraws involve headache-inducing white flashes (Score:2, Interesting)
Bug! (Score:4, Interesting)
Mac users, give it a try! (Score:4, Interesting)
Re:So.. (Score:1, Interesting)
Re:Release notes and comments (Score:1, Interesting)
Re:Release notes and comments (Score:5, Interesting)
Just to make my vague, general statements concrete, I picked three sites at random, each of which uses a different plugin:
The official US time clock [time.gov] (Java)
weatcher.com interactive map [weather.com] (Flash)
Panda Pang [zeronews-fr.com] (Shockwave for Director)
With these three pages open Firefox 2.0.0.3 on Windows XP has a VM Size of 175 MB. Huge memory problem in Firefox? No, Opera 9.10 on Windows XP has a VM Size of 171 MB. After closing the tabs in Firefox, VM Size goes down to 46 MB. Doing the same in Opera, VM Size goes down to 59 MB. If anything, it looks like Opera may have a problem releasing unused memory. Keep in mind for a fair comparison that you must open only those sites after starting the browser, otherwise, you could see the built-up memory usage form hours or days of use in a browser that you've been visiting other pages in.
If you can come up with a series of steps that causes high memory usage in Firefox, and not high memory usage in other browsers, maybe you're on to something.