Firefox 5 Benchmarked – Faster And Better Than Ever Before!

digitizor ^ | 21 June 2011 | Ricky

[bcsco]

Oh, OK, I see it only opens when in a posting window. What threw me off, is it claims to be available on any web page.

[JerseyHighlander]

You can add a Xinha button to any menu bar, which will pop up the editor window at any time.

I’ve had the button on my menu bar in the past, but never used it, I just use it for FR and other forum postings.

[2nd amendment mama]

Searched for “mapmonkey” and couldn’t find it......Do you have the address? Thanks

[bcsco]

Huh. I’ve added it to my menu bar, but it grays out. Even when I have this comments window open it’s grayed out. The only way I can use it is with a right-mouse-button click.

[KevinB]

Here you go. The correct name is Greasemonkey, not Mapmonkey. Mapmonkey is a navigation program I sometimes mess with. I corrected myself a couple of posts after my original, but you must have missed it.

Greasemonkey

[Will88]

After being open for five or six hours and used intermittently, Firefox 5.0 locked up on me and it took the usual many attempts to close it,”Program not respondng” and several attempts in Windows Task Manager.

Some improvements, but that part isn’t corrected.

[bcsco]

I’ve been using it for about the same amount of time. I’ve added a few add-ons, and have used it continuously. No problems. I can’t say FR is much (if any) faster, but Firefox does seem to boot faster. I haven’t had to reboot my PC during this time, so I can’t say a fresh Firefox boot will be any faster.

[Mears]

bfl

[catnipman]

“So how do you prevent the memory leaks?”

You can’t. Have tried every thing.

So I just kill the FF process every 15 minutes and
start over. And I mean kill it, because just closing
FF leaves it in for 30 seconds or more while it gives up all
its memory. I just use the session restore feature after
I restart it after the kill.

[Will88]

I think it’s definitely faster and improved. I go to a lot of different websites and load other things into memory so there’s was a lot of opening and closing of websites and other applications before it locked up.

[Tainan]

Other than that bookmark issue I mentioned I've been pretty happy with FF. I've tried Safari, Opera and 1 or 2 other browsers. No complaints. I like the FF features I mentioned so I'll stick with it.
Like I said, its just a tool. If a better one comes along I'll try it.

[little jeremiah]

Placemark.

[wolfman]

Downloaded Firefox 5 for Fedora. It seems just about as sluggish as version 4, perhaps a tick faster, but hard to tell. Chrome still seems much faster on Fedora.

[steve86]

the memory leaks will be twice as bad and it’ll hog 100% of CPU as it reaches 2 gigabytes memory usage after browsing for 15 minutes.

FF has no such memory leaks and hasn't had for several major versions. Add(s)-on do.

I can run FF 4.01 and 5.0 on an old laptop with 192 MB memory and it's fine. Generally around 128 MB in use + caching, buffering. Very little use of the swap file.

[steve86]

I don’t think Chrome on Linux has extension-accessible timers implemented on the Linux version unless they were just added in Version 12. That was always the killer for me. Plus it seems to need a little more (not much) than the 192 MB on the laptop mentioned above. It is fine on another laptop with 384 MB.

[little jeremiah]

I am about as far from a techie as anyone could be and still have electricity...

I do run FireFox and hope to learn a tiny amount on this thread - brain can’t absorb much though.