Mozilla releases Firefox 3 Release Candidate (RC) 2
Jun.05, 2008 in
Mozilla Firefox
On 4th June, 2008 Mozilla have released its major product Firefox latest release candidate, oftenly known as RC. This will suppress the earlier Firefox 3 RC 1.
According to Mozilla Foundation, latest version of Firefox have few changes in performance, ease to use, more secure than the older Firefox 2.
Firefox 3 RC 2 is better in performance than Firefox 3 RC 1. Here is a brief description -
- Speed: improvements to our JavaScript engine as well as profile guided optimizations have resulted in continued improvements in performance. Compared to Firefox 2, web applications like Google Mail and Zoho Office run twice as fast in Firefox 3, and the popular SunSpider test from Apple shows improvements over previous releases.
- Memory usage: Several new technologies work together to reduce the amount of memory used by Firefox 3 over a web browsing session. Memory cycles are broken and collected by an automated cycle collector, a new memory allocator reduces fragmentation, hundreds of leaks have been fixed, and caching strategies have been tuned.
- Reliability: A user’s bookmarks, history, cookies, and preferences are now stored in a transactionally secure database format which will prevent data loss even if their system crashes.
Release Note - Firefox 3 RC 2
Download Link - All RC Download
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June 6th, 2008 at 1:02 am
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