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Posted by CmdrTaco on Wednesday November 21, 2007 @09:39AM from the i-don't-remember-nothing dept.

DaMan writes "ZDNet picks up on yesterday's Firefox 3 beta 1 review by comparing the memory usage of Firefox 2 against the latest beta. The results from one of the tests is quite interesting, after loading 12 pages and waiting 5 minutes, 2 used 103,180KB and 3 used 62,312KB. IE used 89,756KB.""

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Yes, but... (Score:5, Funny)

by InvisblePinkUnicorn ( 1126837 ) writes: on Wednesday November 21, 2007 @09:42AM (#21433955)

How much does it use on Linux... err... does it run... damn!

Sorry, I'm new at this....

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Yeah but it's still beta (Score:4, Funny)

by jayhawk88 ( 160512 ) writes: <jayhawk88@gmail.com> on Wednesday November 21, 2007 @09:44AM (#21433975)

I'm sure that low memory usage bug will be fixed by the first release candidate.

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Re:And Opera (Score:3, Funny)

by tepples ( 727027 ) writes: <tepples.gmail@com> on Wednesday November 21, 2007 @11:18AM (#21435057) Homepage Journal

Firefox doesn't even read mail
citation needed [google.com]

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Re:Yes, but... looking in the wrong spot! :) (Score:1, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Wednesday November 21, 2007 @06:35PM (#21441199)

Sounds like a feature to me. Best to run it regularly then :).

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