Firefox 3 is impressive
I have this age old machine in my hostel room. It is a 800MHz Celeron with 256M RAM. That is a good combination for CLI guys like me. It runs debian sid. Its primary purpose is documenting work over night, practicing a couple of scripts, occasional programming and movies. I use the gui only when browsing shares over dc, internet and movies. For movies I use no window manager. Default WM shifts between icewm and fluxbox.
I have installed iceweasel and dillo from the repository. Using iceweasel used to kill my machine. I can’t open a second tab and the machine resource monitor graph is mostly clamped to the top 98%. So, you know what time I spend on the internet after I get to my room.
Anyway, last weekend I downloaded firefox 3. Believe it or not, I am able to run firefox 3 along side django test server and emacs without saturating the machine resources. And even otherwise, I am able to have at least 3-4 tabs simultaneously open on my machine. I almost can’t believe this. Now I am really wondering if I ll update my firefox 3. I am just scared it might become memory hungry when they finally release it.
