{"id":818,"date":"2011-05-25T12:21:49","date_gmt":"2011-05-25T01:21:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/nnethercote\/?p=818"},"modified":"2011-05-25T12:21:49","modified_gmt":"2011-05-25T01:21:49","slug":"firefox-5-has-fewer-leaks-than-firefox-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/nnethercote\/2011\/05\/25\/firefox-5-has-fewer-leaks-than-firefox-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Firefox 5 has fewer leaks than Firefox 4"},"content":{"rendered":"

There’s been some confirmation from users that Firefox 5 has fewer leaks than Firefox 4.<\/p>\n

From bug 640923<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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Well, FF5b2 is really doing way better in my environment. This is great! I’ll abandon FF4 now for me, it never was “stable” in my world.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

From bug 657232<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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I’ve just upgraded from Firefox 3.6.17 to Beta 5 and it at first appeared to be a lot more stable and responsive than Firefox 4.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Nice to hear!<\/p>\n

“Fewer memory leaks” (or “reduced memory usage” if we want to be less blunt) should definitely be on the Firefox 5 feature list when it comes out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There’s been some confirmation from users that Firefox 5 has fewer leaks than Firefox 4. From bug 640923: Well, FF5b2 is really doing way better in my environment. This is great! I’ll abandon FF4 now for me, it never was “stable” in my world. From bug 657232: I’ve just upgraded from Firefox 3.6.17 to Beta […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":139,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,4544],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/nnethercote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/818"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/nnethercote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/nnethercote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/nnethercote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/139"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/nnethercote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=818"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/nnethercote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/818\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/nnethercote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/nnethercote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/nnethercote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}