A tantalizing taste of Firefox 3: testing RC1

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| Mozilla has issued the first official release candidate of Firefox 3, the
| next major version of the popular open source web browser. Firefox 3 includes
| a visual refresh as well as a multitude of exciting new features and
| significant improvements. Our experience indicates that this release
| candidate is fairly robust and ready for widespread testing.    
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| [...]
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| Performance and memory efficiency were high priorities for Firefox 3.
| Adoption of FreeBSD's jemalloc allocator and the implementation of a new
| XPCOM cycle collector have significantly cut down the size of Firefox's
| memory footprint. Firefox 3 now uses less memory than Safari and Opera in
| some benchmarks.    
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http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080519-atantalizing-taste-of-f...

Recent:

Firefox 3's better performance and memory improvements

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| At the Mozilla "open house", Mike Schroepfer, Mozilla Corporation vice
| president of engineering said that beta 5 of Firefox 3 will come out next
| week. It will be the last beta before release candidate 1, which is due for
| May; Firefox 3 should ship in June or before, if possible.
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http://www.builderau.com.au/blogs/syslog/viewblogpost.htm?p=339270943

Mozilla: Firefox 3 beats IE7 and Opera in memory tests

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| Work done to plug Firefox's memory leaks and reduce its RAM profile has paid
| off, two of Mozilla's engineers said Friday, as they claimed that the newest
| beta of their open-source browser uses less memory than rivals such as
| Internet Explorer and Opera.
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http://www.linuxworld.com.au/index.php?id=1368883081&rid=-50
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