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Should I try the new FireFox 3 Beta? First impressions…

Written by Karl L. Gechlik | AskTheAdmin.com on November 23, 2007 – 12:21 pm -

Mozilla released Beta 1 of Firefox 3.0 a few days ago, so I thought it was about time I tried out the latest and greatest from the guys at Mozilla. Grab it here if you haven’t yet, but be warned, it’s only meant for testing, and shouldn’t be used if you require a stable browser.

I’ve been running it at work since yesterday afternoon, and upgraded my laptop at home last night. First impressions are good…

Resource Usage Improvements

The memory footprint has reduced immensely. Before upgrading, I had over 200 tabs open in Firefox 2.0 using around 1100MB of RAM. After upgrading to 3.0 Beta 1, the memory footprint has shrunk by half to just over 600MB. It’s important to note that these figures are after a day’s worth of usage, opening/closing tabs throughout the day, on both 2.0 and 3.0 Beta 1. My experience appears to match with Adrian Kingsley-Hughes’ over at ZDNet.

Firefox’s giant memory footprint was one of my biggest bugbears, and it seems as though 3.0 is making a step in the right direction. This is excellent progress.

CPU usage is down, too. In Firefox 2.0, running 200 tabs used around 45% CPU on a Dual Core. After upgrading to 3.0 Beta 1 CPU usage is running at roughly 15%.

General Impressions

Overall, the browser seems snappier - particularly when moving between tabs. I also like the flashy “whizzy” thing it does when moving between distant tabs. Very “Compiz“.

The new, unobtrusive, Remember Password widget is also a welcome addition. It lets you get on, without interrupting your work flow, allowing you to your preference as and when you’re ready.

The Address/Location Bar now searches through your history and bookmarks; not just on URL, but also on page titles. So for example, you can type in “USB” into the location bar, and it’ll show you a list of results. I have mixed feelings about this, as I quite liked just typing in the start of an address, and choosing from a descending list of most frequently viewed sites that match the start of what I’m typing.

3.0 also adds a Quick Bookmark button next to the Address Bar. This differs to Ctrl + D as it allows you to edit the Bookmark name and add tags. Again, I’m not entirely sold on it’s usefulness, but perhaps in time I’ll find myself using it :)

Conclusion

Overall, I’m impressed. The extra little features are nice to have, but the most important improvements, for me, are in 3.0’s reduced memory and CPU footprint. I certainly don’t think I’ll be re-installing Firefox 2.0 anytime soon :)

Over to you

Have you tried Firefox 3.0 Beta 1 yet? What are your impressions of it?

Edit By TheAdmiN: Awesome first look at the Fox 3.0 beta and Happy Turkey Day - Gobble Gobble!!

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10 Responses to “Should I try the new FireFox 3 Beta? First impressions…”

  1. By Michael Duntton III on Nov 22, 2007 | Reply

    My 2.0 has been leaking memory worse then my car leaks antifreeze. U talked me into trying 3 out and there is no going back thanks dude for the push

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  2. By hmm on Nov 22, 2007 | Reply

    opera.exe with ~200 tabs:

    Memory: 435000 K
    VM: 463000 K
    CPU usage 0-5% from a 1.73Ghz Intel Celeron M.

    That above is Opera 9.5 beta which has some bugs to be fixed. We should compare again when both products are final.

    BTW that poll with “the browser you use” isn’t biased at all…

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  3. By NinjaAdmin on Nov 22, 2007 | Reply

    200 TABS? I did a double take - you must be thankful for memory in you rig!

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  4. By Karl L. Gechlik on Nov 22, 2007 | Reply

    I thought I had problems with 25 open tabs! Damn Phil what are we doing real deal multi-tasking??

    And @hmmm why would it be biased - our readers just know what they like! lmfao!

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  5. By Anonymous on Nov 22, 2007 | Reply

    to the Opera fan - feel free to write in your selection!

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  6. By Jay on Nov 23, 2007 | Reply

    My lappy is old (mobile amd, 1500+, 1.3GHz, 512mb ram) and struggles with a many tabs open, so i thought this would be a great test. Wow what a difference! 3.0 is great. Much faster, much less memory intensive. My issue at the moment is that almost none of my plugins work w/ 3.0, so sadly this can’t become my fulltime browser yet…

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  7. By Karl L. Gechlik on Nov 23, 2007 | Reply

    @Jay I feel the same way but its very reminiscent of when I went from 1.5 to beta 2.0 oh so long ago…

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  8. By Jay on Nov 23, 2007 | Reply

    More info:

    Using the machine above, ff3b is about 20% faster on load times for pages. I also opened the same set of 4 tabs, in the same order, on each browser, and 2.0.0.9 used 70 megs of memory, and 3b1 used 46 megs. Not bad!

    @Karl - I hear ya, and I’ll wait patiently. I know this sucker can flash fry a buffalo in 40 seconds, but I want it now!

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  9. By Karl L. Gechlik on Nov 23, 2007 | Reply

    @Jay i am writing this in ff 3. I didnt say I didnt love being the first kid on my block with a new toy! Ill deal with it and keep it running in a vmware session till its stable.

    thanks for reading!

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  10. By Hugh on Nov 25, 2007 | Reply

    Any word yet on removing the cutesy Bookmark and Go buttons?

    Reply by email please. TIA. :)

    hugh AT hughmarshall.com

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