I’ve always loved Firefox however in recent months I’ve cast this cute little animal into the refuge pile in /Applications and given its space in the warmth of my dock to Apple’s Safari 4 browser. Firefox had developed a very naughty habit of eating all of my poor laptops free memory and CPU so when Apple came out with Safari 4 I decided to give it shot.
Safari is remarkably faster than the prior versions of Firefox and had a much lower memory and CPU footprint on my laptop. The browser offered many other nifty features that I loved the glitz of when switching but over the past few months have all but forgotten as I never use them. Such toys as “Top Sites” and “Graphical History” while being very interesting features don’t serve one well when they never use the “Top Sites” and barely ever check their browser history.
Today a friend mentioned how much he was enjoying Firefox 3.5 and I decided it was worth a shot to install on my work issued Windows laptop. I replaced Firefox 3.0 with 3.5 and found it remarkably faster, sharper looking and much better with sharing the small amount of memory my work laptop has. Since I was so impressed with it on the work computer I decided to give it a shot on my personal computer.
I installed the browser and after just about twenty minutes of usage noticed how much faster it was than prior versions. It was as fast or faster than Safari 4. The rendering is quicker than it used to be and Firefox’s use of large fonts has always been the most superior out there. The results are in
Firefox has found it's rightful home
So now I am back on Firefox and quite happy with the performance thus far.
PID COMMAND %CPU TIME #TH #PRTS #MREGS RPRVT RSHRD RSIZE VSIZE
983 firefox-bi 12.1% 13:59.60 24 249 1148 120M 52M 169M 577M
So now a question for all of you out there who actually read enough of this post to make it here. Do you have any must have extensions I should look into?
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