Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 13th Mar 2008 20:41 UTC, submitted by RJop
Mozilla & Gecko clones "While Firefox 2 used less memory than it's predecessor, Firefox 1.5, we intentionally restricted the number of changes to the Gecko platform (Gecko 1.8.1 was only slightly different than Gecko 1.8) on which Firefox was built. However, while the majority of people were working on Firefox 2/Gecko 1.8.1, others of us were already ripping into the platform that Firefox 3 was to be built on: Gecko 1.9. We've made more significant changes to the platform than I can count, including many to reduce our memory footprint. The result has been dramatic."
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RE[5]: Warmly Welcomed
by eggs on Fri 14th Mar 2008 20:28 UTC in reply to "RE[4]: Warmly Welcomed"
eggs
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2006-01-23

I like that it uses native widgets in OSX now, makes it look much more like it belongs.

My only real complaint now is that smooth scrolling on the Mac is terrible. I'm going to install it on my Vista machine tonight to test.

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