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On 09/19/10 09:22, Hilco Wijbenga wrote: |
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> On 18 September 2010 15:14, Kevin O'Gorman <kogorman@×××××.com> wrote: |
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>> Is it just me? Or does Firefox get slower every release? And less stable. |
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> Indeed. But FF4 is *much* faster. And much more stable. At least, that |
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> was my experience when I tried it out. I had to go back to 3.6 because |
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> some of the plugins that I need were not yet supported for FF4. At |
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> least the later 3.6 releases aren't as unstable as the previous ones. |
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Firefox 4 indeed is smoother (probably due to the new animations, |
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probably because none of the plugins I used are compatible yet, but |
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maybe it is just faster); but it is definitely more memory hungrier than |
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before. In Fx3, it usually took around ~20-25% of my 1GB RAM and that's |
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with opening a bunch lot of pages; Fx4 generally takes around ~25-30%. |
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While taking 30% of my RAM is fine when I'm not multitasking, the main |
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problem is I am always multitasking. With Thunderbird taking another |
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15-20%, emerge ranging from 5-30%, and X about 5-10%, my computer is |
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becoming unbearably slow when memory starved. |
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I've been thinking about adding -Os (optimize-size) to my CFLAGS, does |
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anyone knows if doing that will possibly bring down memory usage and |
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speed up the computer? |
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