Re:Firefox 8 is 20% faster than Firefox 5, matches Chrome 14
by saurik on Monday July 11, 2011 @09:21AM
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The "conversation" of this thread started with someone commenting on the fact, seemingly surprised and even bothered, that we are already talking about Firefox 8 when seemingly Firefox 6 and 7 went by so quickly we didn't notice it happening. In this context, it is incredibly relevant that Firefox 6 and 7 are still being described in the future tense, as that would imply that they haven't actually been released yet.
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Re:Firefox 8 is 20% faster than Firefox 5, matches Chrome 14
by nhebb on Monday July 11, 2011 @09:38AM
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Versions 6 and 7 haven't been released yet, but the feature sets are locked in due to the faster major version release cycle. The recently discovered memory fragmentation issues (https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=666058) and more efficient garbage collection are being addressed in version 8.
Re:Firefox 8 is 20% faster than Firefox 5, matches Chrome 14
by capnrefsmmat on Monday July 11, 2011 @10:18AM
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The bug you linked to will be fixed in version 7, not 8.