TELL HN: I just switched to Firefox 2.0 and it beats Firefox 3.x by far

1 pointsfossguy16y ago2 comments

I have been complaining about how slow and how memory-crazy Firefox has become for a while...

With just a few tabs open it is already at the 200/300M mark and using lots of CPU.

Yesterday night, I installed the old 2.0.2 Firefox version and I am impressed by how fast it is. Much less memory used and everything loads faster.

Anyone here noticing that?

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If you care about 200 megs of RAM, you have a hardware problem, not a software problem.

If you care primarily about speed, you're using the wrong program entirely. Google Chrome is significantly faster than Firefox.

Have you tried FF 3.6?

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