Today I read on Slashdot that Mozilla has released a new beta of their Firefox 3 browser. Normally this isn't super exciting news. The new browser beta is visually almost the same as the previous models. So what makes it exciting?
There's an incredible speed increase! They seemed to have fixed a lot of problems that are associated with the previous versions. Mainly memory leaks were fixed. What is a memory leak? Well when software programs need to access memory to do something, sometimes they will reserve the memory, use it and then never release it back for other programs to use. So over time the browser will use up more memory than is needed, and worst of all that memory isn't used for anything, its just stuck.
Want to learn more? Of course you do :) Check out the Wikipedia on Memory Leaks.
Hope this was informative, now go download the beta and enjoy a much faster browsing experience.
