Firefox 3.0 RC 2 v/s Firefox 2.0.0.14.

-
The numbering pattern for Firefox 2 (2.0.0.xx) made me think that there might be innumerable versions before we get to see Firefox 3.0. But thankfully Firefox has been working on betas for version 3 for long and we have seen some of the features meant for 3.0 enter the stable versions too.
After Firefox launched the second release candidate,
(news:
http://tech.slashdot.org/tech/08/06/05/115210.shtml
http://www.webuser.co.uk/news/257843.html)
I ran a test to see if there is a difference in memory usage.
Now this test should be flawed because of many many reasons, but still here it is.
Firefox 3.0 RC2
1. Just Loaded: Memory: 29K
(I was typing start in the address bar, which might hav caused a slight spike, but the memory was near 29K before I began typing)

2. 10 Start Tabs: Memory: 33K

3. 10 Start Windows(from the earlier 10 tabs, 9 were closed and 9 more windows with home page were opened ); Memory:44K

4. Back home after closing the other 9 windows:Memory 36K

5.Searched for a video on youtube.com. Let it load fully. Then Played. Memory:50K


Firefox 2.0.0.14
1. Memory: 21K

2. Memory: 25K

3. Memory: 35K

4. Memory: 29K

5. Memory: 39K (Spiked to 50K while the movie was loading, but came down afterwards. Both rc2 and 2.0.0.14 were tested after the movie loaded completely!)


Now a million of such tests should have been run. Plus more scenarios should have been tested. Then a mean should have been drawn to interpret the results. But since I didn't do that. here is a comparison

Step No. Firefox 3.0 RC2 Firefox 2.0.0.14
Step 1: 29K 21K
Step 2: 33K 25K
Step 3: 44K 35K
Step 4: 36K 29K
Step 5: 50K 39K

All readings in KB
Conclusion: Don't worry about the memory(It's cheap anyways!) Firefox 3 looks better and they say that it has electrolytes!

For serious people: Acid3 test results for Release candidates have been good
( >70/100 ). I didn't test one myself, but I did test my 2.0.0.14 got a 54/100.
Test your browser too
http://acid3.acidtests.org/
(PS: I tested my IE7. The test result was incoherent(even after enabling activex)!Perhaps acid is for Firefox only)

Comments

  1. AdminJune 6, 2008 at 10:13 PM

    The test was carried out on the same system, both firefox installations were standard. Both had all add-ons disabled.

    ReplyDelete

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

CPU Temperature Guide for Intel Core 2 Duo : Range of Normal CPU Temperatures

-
Is your CPU Temperature too High? How high is high enough? Is 60 degree Celsius high enough or is 70 degree Celsius the threshold? Hipatic covers your temperature problems right here. Below we discuss Intel Core 2 Duo. If your CPU is overheating, visit our CPU Overheating Guide and CPU Overheating: Symptoms, Causes, & Solutions To measure CPU Temperatures you may need Real Temp Intel Core 2 Duo: (If you wish to access the PDF related to your processor, please first follow the link given under sources at the end of the article instead of directly accessing the pdf link given under each sub heading. This will help you access the latest information on your processor from Intel's website & will also prevent hotlinking.) 1. Intel® Core™2 Duo Processor E8000 Series Intel ® Core™2 Duo Processor E8600, E8500, E8400, E8300, E8200, E8190 Thermal Profile Range: 45.1 degree Celsius (Power - 0W) to 72.4 degree Celsius (Power 65W) Source: http://download.intel.com/design/processor/dat
Read more

CS50: "undefined reference to `GetString' " and other errors

-
Image
I was going through the CS50 lectures of Fall 2011. CS50 recommends using the CS50 Appliance which is a VirtualBox installation of Fedora with libraries and software needed for the CS50 course. However, if you are already running a flavour of Linux (Ubuntu 12.04 in the case of this article) and want to do the examples natively, read on. On Linux, the CS50 manual gives instructions on how to install the CS50 Library for C  for Linux ( Fedora / Ubuntu ). After installing the CS50 Library for C, I tried running some samples. While making pointers.c in the Week 5 lecture, I came across this error $make pointers cc     pointers.c   -o pointers pointers.c: In function ‘main’: pointers.c:27:5: error: ‘for’ loop initial declarations are only allowed in C99 mode pointers.c:27:5: note: use option -std=c99 or -std=gnu99 to compile your code make: *** [pointers] Error 1 If instead of using make, you use gcc pointers .c you will get a similar error. To correct this, I ran $gcc pointers.
Read more

Appengine: Custom Error Handlers using webapp2 - Python 2.7

-
Google Developers has a writeup on Custom Error Responses using app.yaml Here is a sample app.yaml app.yaml application: appname version: 1 runtime: python27 api_version: 1 threadsafe: true handlers: - url: /static static_dir: static http_headers: Vary: Accept-Encoding - url: /articles/.* script: articles.app On the Development Environment, I get the following error when I visit http://localhost:8080/ i.e the home page Not found error: / did not match any patterns in application configuration. On Appengine, a standard 404 Error is shown Error: Not Found The requested URL / was not found on this server. This is because the app.yaml file does not specify any handler for "/" Here is the articles.py file articles.py import webapp2 class HomePage(webapp2.RequestHandler): def get(self): self.response.write.out("Hello Birds!") app = webapp2.WSGIApplication( [ (r'/articles/', HomePage) ], debug=True) Specify
Read more