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Firefox 3 Performance

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Has anyone else noticed Firefox 3 performing much slower than FF 1 or 2 in Windows XP? Just wondering if its me or if FF3 is more bloated or slower than previous versions. What do you guys think?
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Re: Firefox 3 Performance

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Yep I'm seeing poor performance and especially poor responsiveness from FF3.

Considering rolling back to a previous version.

One of the main reasons I dislike using IE is having to wait a few seconds for a blank tab to open... FF always had that one over on IE, but the current version is slow to do the same now.
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Seems fine for me. I actually feel that page rendering to be a little faster than FF 3.0. :shrug:

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Re: Firefox 3 Performance

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Works fine for me as well.

Win7 x64, FF 3.5.1
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Re: Firefox 3 Performance

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Perfectly fine here

FF 3.5.1 + OpenDNS on Vista 32-bit
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im running 3.5.1 and its fast as hell.
.1 fixed a bug in the Windows build making it faster on startup, might wanna check that out.
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3.5.1 is a pig
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I did some googling and most complaints are with XP, people with Vista and 7 have no issues. Anyone else with XP notice this besides me and Foo?
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<-- XP @ work
dual core PentiumD 3.2 GHz, 3 GB RAM
taking all sorts of memory and CPU
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Re: Firefox 3 Performance

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I'm on 7.

Running on a netbook, though, so low RAM. IE's edging out FF for speed on this setup right now, which is a first.
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I'm also have it on a netbook as well. Win7/Ubuntu. Runs fine, though it has 1.5GB RAM, which isn't that bad.
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im on XP, as said no problems
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Re: Firefox 3 Performance

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5 tabs (including q3w)
350 MB memory used
consistent 10 - 20% CPU utilization
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