Get your Firefox 3.5 on today it’s more stable uses less memory

Published on July 2, 2009

firefox-3.5

Yep, that’s right – you’re favorite (or at least should be favorite browser) just went to version 3.5.

The biggest thing I’ve seen from the start is memory consumption. FF 3.5 appears to be handling memory management wayyyyyyy better than the 3.X versions prior. That reason alone is worth the upgrade.

Here’s some goodness from the FF site:

The Fastest Firefox Yet

Things move quickly online, and we’ve beefed up the engine that runs Firefox to make sure you can keep up: Firefox 3.5 is more than twice as fast as Firefox 3, and ten times as fast as Firefox 2.* As a result, Web applications like email, photo sites and your favorite social networks will feel snappier and more responsive.

Firefox Performance: Fast — Faster — Fastest

Results of a SunSpider test on a Windows XP machine

firefox-performance-chart

18,148 ms

3,669 ms

1,524 ms!

swansonager – what is matt up to?