I'm super excited to see the Firefox 3 Beta 4 announcement. And as far as I can tell, I'm not alone:
- Ed Burnette (ZDNet): Firefox 3 Beta 4 is 5x faster than IE7, 3x faster than FF2 (but relies on benchmarking done before Beta 4 was released)
- ZDNet: SunSpider JavaScript score (lower is better). "Firefox 3.0 beta 4 is a very responsive browser.", along with a graph:
- IE7: 22 678.4
- Firefox 2: 12 460.4
- Firefox 3 Beta 3: 6 473.2
- Firefox 3 Beta 4: 2 801.2
- Monkeybites blog at Wired: The most noticeable thing in the new beta is the blazing speed improvements "(...) beta 4 also sees an incremental drop in the memory footprint."
- Ars Technica: highly robust and impressively responsive
- Download Squad: The browser is also designed to use less memory, and there are major improvements to the JavaScript engine that should allow web based applications like Gmail and Zoho Office to run twice as fast in Firefox 3 as Firefox 2.
- InformationWeek: I've been using it as my primary browser since December and it works just fine.
- 01 Informatique: elle gagne aussi considérablement en rapidité ;
- The Open Road: I love Firefox. I love that it doesn't treat me like a second-class citizen because I use a Mac. I love its egalitarian (and now super-speedy) nature. This is how software should be written.
- Paula Rooney (ZDNet): beta 4 offers better integration with Windows Vista.
7 réactions
1 De ikalimero - 11/03/2008, 20:55
mon firefox 3b4 se lance toujours en pleine page ce qui est très gênant sur un 24"
a moins que ce ne soit un réglage mais j'ai déjà supprimé le fichier plist de préférence
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si quelqu'un a une idée, je suis preneur
2 De Martius - 11/03/2008, 21:29
I hope this will be true on GNU/Linux too. I experienced some speed problems on Ubuntu which didn't appeared in Windows. (Hope my english is understandable too...)
3 De Jorkar - 11/03/2008, 23:32
Décidément, on en aura tellement parlé! Vivement la version finale!
4 De Loran - 12/03/2008, 10:27
Les problemes de stabilité de la beta 3 semblent au moins (partiellement) résolus. Cela rend cette version utilisable et c'est vrai qu'il y a beaucoup d'améliorations surtout dans l'utilisation des ressources (Memoire!!!).
Ca c'est cool!!
5 De mrboo - 12/03/2008, 11:34
A l'heure des applications web vitaminées à l'Ajax voilà une très bonne nouvelle :o)
6 De AbriCoCotier.fr - 12/03/2008, 19:37
Tristan, ton billet est très interessant, surtout ça : "# ZDNet: SunSpider JavaScript score (lower is better). "Firefox 3.0 beta 4 is a very responsive browser.", along with a graph:
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Mais de part et d'autre on entend que Safari est plus rapide encore que Firefox 3. Toi qui as un mac, pourais-tu donner le score de Safari sur SunSpider pour que l'on puisse comparer ? Merci !
7 De Tristan - 12/03/2008, 20:14
@Abricocotier.fr : Sur ma machine, voici les résultats :
Firefox 3 Beta 4 : 3 681.4ms
http://webkit.org/perf/sunspider-0....,%223d-morph%22:134,127,129,129,127,%223d-raytrace%22:151,157,160,158,158,%22access-binary-trees%22:53,52,51,51,52,%22access-fannkuch%22:235,235,238,235,234,%22access-nbody%22:195,198,210,193,207,%22access-nsieve%22:68,68,68,68,68,%22bitops-3bit-bits-in-byte%22:58,57,64,57,57,%22bitops-bits-in-byte%22:87,87,87,87,87,%22bitops-bitwise-and%22:179,179,173,178,183,%22bitops-nsieve-bits%22:127,129,129,128,131,%22controlflow-recursive%22:40,39,40,39,38,%22crypto-aes%22:85,86,85,87,87,%22crypto-md5%22:75,78,77,76,75,%22crypto-sha1%22:81,84,80,79,81,%22date-format-tofte%22:236,239,236,238,234,%22date-format-xparb%22:146,149,149,145,149,%22math-cordic%22:186,186,177,179,184,%22math-partial-sums%22:234,225,223,213,229,%22math-spectral-norm%22:76,83,82,76,73,%22regexp-dna%22:266,266,270,270,269,%22string-base64%22:90,91,88,88,91,%22string-fasta%22:217,213,211,212,221,%22string-tagcloud%22:159,157,156,155,157,%22string-unpack-code%22:214,210,214,210,211,%22string-validate-input%22:111,112,111,111,110}]
Safari 3.0.4 : 10 518.6ms
http://webkit.org/perf/sunspider-0....
Ce qui, d'après SunSpider, fait que Safari 3.0.4 est 2.86 fois plus lent que Firefox 3 Beta 4. Il faudrait essayer avec leur compilations nocturnes, qui parait-il a fait de gros progrès, mais je ne sais pas où la trouver...