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Bjossi

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  1. I never had any stability issues with 3.6, but man, it is a slow old dog compared to 4.

     

    Just wondering, did 3.6 have "Tell websites I do not want to be tracked" in the Advanced tab in Options? Because this is the first time I see this option, and it is unchecked by default. The name suggests a vast improvement of privacy.

  2. Actually they were selling 4GB sticks on sale on Newegg, so I went for 16GB because I could.

     

    Mm, I'll try again:

     

    DDR3 [...] dual channel

     

    I hope that is a Freudian slip. Doing the math it obviously isn't, but hey, I can dream!

  3. According to those tests Firefox still has ways to go in JavaScript performance despite 4 being a vast improvement from 3.6. Its memory usage is higher than average at startup but the more tabs you open the less memory each one uses on average. With 30 tabs open in FF 3.6 it used 290 MBs but with just one tab it was at around 70-80 MBs (My own test.).

  4. Each tab being on it's own is not just for unstable programs, it is just a ton less likely to cause errors. I have yet to see any program besides Chrome be called "bloated" for using multiple processes.

     

    Yes, because if it does crash there is a chance only one tab will, instead of the entire program. This is unnecessary if the program is stable to begin with. I have never had Firefox crash on me even once since the 3.0 branch started out a good while ago.

     

    Firefox uses two main processes, the central task and a plugin-loader. I'm not sure why they switched to that approach, though.

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