Firefox 5.0 released

Well good for the memory work, and the per tab memory usage is cool. But to claim that "Facebook is taking a lot of memory" is pretty disingenuous. It is in fact Firefox's rendering of Facebook that is taking the memory...

If Opera or chrome or IE uses 1/2 the ram to render the same page, it's still FF that has the memory problems (Which is has had from day one). For example the memory difference between FF and IE on this single page is IE: 24Meg and FF: 32Meg, fresh launch, zero menu bars or plugins. It's not Seven Formums taking 32 meg on Linux, it's still FF...

wds7 said:

lehnerus2000 said:

Firefox button > Options > Options

If you aren't using the awful button, "Options" is in the "Tools" menu.

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In the "Options" window: Advanced > Update

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Make your desired selections. :)

I finally gave up on FF5 ... came back to FF 4.01

and this is exactly what i did .

Thanks .

No problems.
I'm glad the info was useful. :)

just installed the nightly 64bit and up to now it seams better and faster then ie9 64bit

andyparks said:

just installed the nightly 64bit and up to now it seams better and faster then ie9 64bit

It should be faster then IE9-64 since Microsoft didn't put much effort into IE9-64. It still has the old IE-8 engine. IE9-32 has the upgraded engine and is faster then IE9-64.

Jim

Phone Man said:

andyparks said:

just installed the nightly 64bit and up to now it seams better and faster then ie9 64bit

It should be faster then IE9-64 since Microsoft didn't put much effort into IE9-64. It still has the old IE-8 engine. IE9-32 has the upgraded engine and is faster then IE9-64.

Jim

Thanks I did no that

yowanvista said:

5.0.1 released

Release notes

Looks like just an update for Mac OS. Doesn't show up when I check for FF updates in Windows. I guess I will wait for it to show.

Jim