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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 3rd Apr 2008 19:57 UTC, submitted by Brunis

The fifth beta of Firefox has been released. "Mozilla Firefox 3 Beta 5 has been released for testing. The fifth beta of the next major Firefox version offers over 750 bug fixes over Beta 4, including improvements in user interface, location bar autocomplete, bookmark backup and restore, full page zoom and other new features based upon user feedback."

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by Kroc on Thu 3rd Apr 2008 20:16 UTC

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2005-11-10

Fast, really fast, stable, low memory usage, easy to use.
Mozilla are stuffing a firecracker down the pants of the Internet and are about to let it off.

Extension compatibility may hold you back, but I would definitely recommend that people download and use Beta5. I've been using Ff3 as my full-time browser since b2 and it's rock-solid and any drawbacks as a beta are far outweighed by the gain in speed.

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by Valhalla on Thu 3rd Apr 2008 21:31 in reply to "RE"

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2006-01-24

I just downloaded the beta and compared them memory-wise on a winxp home machine. I opened the following pages in each browser and checked the memory usage (note! no flash installed and only addon installed is noscript, which worked fine with beta 5):

www.osnews.com
www.zbrushcentral.com
www.conceptart.org
www.cgtalk.com
www.haiku-os.org

Firefox 2.0.0.13 - 42160 kb
Firefox 3 beta 5 - 43096 kb

so in this simple test there were no real differences in memory usage. of the pages I visited all rendered fine in beta 5, could those who complains about badly rendered pages please post some examples?

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by Axord on Thu 3rd Apr 2008 23:26 in reply to "RE"

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2005-06-30

The memory improvements I've seen come from extended usage. With FF2, a day of hard browsing could see the memory spiral up to 400MB or worse, with a restart being the only way to recover that mess. FF3 seems to consistently snap back to around 100MB for me.

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by buff on Thu 3rd Apr 2008 22:05 in reply to "RE"

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2005-11-12

Mozilla are stuffing a firecracker down the pants of the Internet and are about to let it off.

So, what you are trying to say is we all better hold on tight since we (men) are about to lose our nads? Mm, perhaps not quite the analogy you were looking for.

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by ari-free on Thu 3rd Apr 2008 22:26 in reply to "RE"

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2007-01-22

maybe the assumption is that the internet is not masculine?

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