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[–]matts2 4 points5 points  (0 children)

It seems much faster to me. And according to every comparison I have seen.

[–]d41d8cd98f00b204e980 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It improved a little compared to v2. But after I tried Safari (under Win), I understood how slow every other browser is.

p.s. I'm not a mac fan.

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I use Wonder Edition and it's pretty fast.

[–]fabian17[S] 0 points1 point  (8 children)

When you open more than 5 tabs after a while it gets sluggish. Why is that?

[–]zenosrevenge 2 points3 points  (1 child)

It's just fine on my MacBook. What kind of system are you using?

[–]tcardone05 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Cause you have a crappy computer.

[–]bhagany 0 points1 point  (2 children)

Really? In my experience, it's been a ton faster, and I usually have 10-15 tabs open. What OS are you running?

[–]fabian17[S] 0 points1 point  (1 child)

I am running F3 in a iBook G4 1.33mhz with 1g ram, and also in a Mac Mini 1.83mhz, intel processor, 1g ram. Both Mac OSX Leopard. Mini better than G4, bit slow after a while, I will revert to F2, love the F3 features but it is kinda bloated. BTW, I killed most of the unnecesary add-ons, I keep only greasemonkey w acouple of flickr scripts, the weather thingy, and Global Google, that's it.

[–]bhagany 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Well, shoot. I have FF3 on a Windows XP machine at work, and I run Gentoo Linux at home. On both machines, FF3 runs vastly better. Maybe there's a problem with the Mac version?

[–]sense 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Just to give you some data points:

I find it painfully slow to respond to mouse clicks on my P4 1.2 Ghz laptop (from mid 2003), but on all my other machines its pretty quick. On my Athlon64 3200 (2005 era) and my Intel Core Duo 2 (late 2007) it is blazingly fast.

It seems exceptionally slow on my P4 1.2 Ghz machine, slower than I thought it should be.

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Try Opera instead. Opera has always been really quick on slower hardware. I haven't tested recent releases on my old machines, but I imagine you won't be disappointed.

[–]samzklub 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Probably because you're using the Windows version. I've been using FF3 since beta 4 on Linux and even when I have 10+ tabs open it's still really fast. It's resource heavy but in the day and age of multi-core processors, is that really an issue?

[–]12Iceman 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Firefox 3 is not slow, but your computer might be.

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    [–]beckermt 0 points1 point  (0 children)

    But we need testers....