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Comment Re:Results for Firefox3.6,Chromium,Opera Ubuntu (Score 2, Informative) 199

Recent firefox progress in my machine:
- Firefox 3.6: 1063.0ms +/- 4.9%
- Firefox 4.0b4pre (today's build): 622.6ms +/- 12.0%

These are with the same engine, btw. Jaegermonkey is not in nightly builds yet.
It doesn't take much more to make you bound to DOM operations in normal webapps.

PS: sunspider 0.9.1 is also available

Comment Re:Firefox 4... (Score 1) 646

It runs faster because it runs independently of the all the work going on in other tabs: running scripts, rendering layout and loading stuff from the cache/web. But it can be done with threads instead of processes. It's less secure and prone to crashing, though.

From the project page it looks like they're going for a flexible model, so a lot of options are possible: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Electrolysis

Comment Re:Firefox 4... (Score 2, Informative) 646

Out of process plugins are coming out soon with 3.6.4 for select plugins.
In the dev release (minefield) this is already enabled for all plugins and it's fairly stable, save from some corner cases like java's modal security popups. This is seen working perfectly when the plugins hang/crash, which is fairly often with certain builds.

And I really, really hope they won't go for the process per tab like planned. It takes a lot of extra memory for little benefit (IMO).

Comment Re:Great (Score 2, Informative) 272

I had the same problem when installing the RC version. This add-on turns out to be very helpful while they don't manage to update lightning.

The problem I have now is with the update feature. Having installed RC2, do I need to download de full version? It doesn't seem to be able to update itself.

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