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Expect 22.8% performance boost from next week's Firefox 3.6 beta

Betanews: The developers at Mozilla have set next week as the tentative rollout window for the first public beta of Firefox 3.6 -- the first edition of the organization's big fixes for 3.5 where it's accepting analysis and advice from the general public. Betanews tests this week on a late version of the 3.6 beta preview, close to the organization's planned code freeze, indicate that users will be visibly pleased by what they see: Generally faster JavaScript execution and much faster page rendering will result in a browser that's almost one-fourth faster than its predecessor -- by our estimate, 22.78% faster on average.

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Serial_EDX6063d ago

Making web browsing faster is always a good thing.
Now if they can fix the crashing issues.

Bereaver6063d ago

Actually, my firefox hasn't had a crash unless it was the websites problem. Or so it seems.

leeger6063d ago

firefox 3 always crash on my PC, 64bit vista, so i switched to Google Chrome and i'm very happy with it.

joydestroy6063d ago

it crashed on me a little back around 3.0. but since 3.5, i've had absolutely no issues.

Prototype6063d ago

Ever since 3.5 I may have had one crashing issue if even that, however still much better than IE even though I'm running IE7 and 8 still tries to force its way into my xp machine which I always say NO!

mugoldeneagle036063d ago

My parents old PC used to have it, but on mine I've only been using Internet Explorer, which runs like crap sometimes. Is it worth the upgrade? Or should I say the time to switch over?

And no, I'm not a PC guru.

cyberwaffles6063d ago

i love firefox but the latest build takes forever to load up on me now for some reason. i cleaned the registry, the system cache, and everything, but yet it still takes a good minute for firefox to start up on me.

i've been using chrome lately and it's actually really good. you guys should try it out. the browser has a nice elegant look, takes a fraction of a second to get it running, its not cluttered with a lot of junk on the task bar, it even has this cool incognito web browsing where your history won't be saved.

i initially downloaded chrome to wait for firefox's updated build for 3.5, but don't knock chrome till you try it, its really good.

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iamgoatman6063d ago

That performance increase will have to be pretty noticable, or I'm sticking with Opera.

spartan4006063d ago

lol Opera sucks. Firefox and Crome is where its at

tdrules6063d ago

spartan you have to realise opera is a way for people to rebel.
they probably used firefox, realised it was becoming more popular and jumped boat.

kwyjibo6063d ago

Opera's a good browser. For a while, it was the only speedy alternative to Firefox and IE.

I value Firefox's plugins over speed though. Beautiful beautiful adblock.

iamgoatman6063d ago

@spartan400

Ha! A lot of features you see on Firefox and Chrome today originated on Opera. I mean, Chrome's speed dial, I wonder where they got the idea for that?

@tdrules

Yes, that must be it. I just felt like rebeling against a browser? It can't possibly be because Opera has far more features as standard, better functionality and increased performance over other browsers. Heavens forbid I use a browser that isn't popular!

adsaidler6063d ago

opera is fastest than the current firefox version, imo

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DarkChris6063d ago

They always said that they would improve the speed... But in fact they lowered it...

kwyjibo6063d ago

The only thing they've lowered is the memory usage.

dragon826063d ago

I actually use IE, Firefox, Safari and Google Chrome. I have to say that Google Chrome is my favorite by far.

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Microsoft Gaming Revenue Drops 7% Year-on-Year, Content and Services Down 5%, Xbox Hardware Down 33%

Microsoft announced its financial results for Q3 of fiscal year 2026, including an update on its gaming Xbox business and more.

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Jin_Sakai22d ago (Edited 22d ago )

Not looking good. Hopefully Asha Sharma is able to turn Phil’s disaster around.

dveio21d ago

To me it's still quite remarkable how they can cash-in 5.3bn in revenue in a single quarter, since their hardware is basically dead.

Jingsing21d ago

The stock mark is what makes Microsoft remarkable, They have convinced every institutional and retail investor to just keep piling money into them. Like many big tech giants they are just a big growing pyramid scheme. As long as people keep dropping money into ETF's that cover the market Microsoft will always be liquid. At the same time it is completely stifling innovation and competition. People need to start being more discreet in how they invest their money as it's killing the system.

Tanktopmaster9221d ago

Once they re-evaluate exclusive all will be fine….

S2Killinit21d ago

Riiiiight because people will just flock back to them for one or two games per year.

Jingsing21d ago

15+ years of bad performance is what they call irreparable in business. It is time for them to sell off the assets and get out of entertainment.

Tanktopmaster9221d ago

These declines are on the back of extra revenue received from releasing games like Forza horizon 5 on PlayStation. So I’m being sarcastic here when I said they should go back to exclusives. Killing off a revenue stream from Ps5 sales will only make things worse

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Report: Injustice 3 in Development at NetherRealm Studios

Thanks to the slip-up of an artist working on the title, we now have more evidence that a new Injustice game is in the works.

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Spiders Studio, Developers of GreedFall: The Dying World, Announce Liquidation of the Company

Spiders: "We're going to cut straight to the chase so you're not left wondering: After a long period without clear answers, we have received confirmation that Spiders is being liquidated.

What does it mean? This means the company as a whole no longer exists. We'll cease our functions immediately. The planned DLC will release via Nacon, and then-- well, that's it.

We're sorry that it's come to this and would like to thank each and every one of you for your support over the years.

If you have any questions or run into issues with your games, please contact Nacon directly as we'll no longer be able to reply."