Firefox 3 built for faster web experience
Firefox 3 has been officially released and looking under the hood it has been tweaked for faster page loading.
Here are the key connection values in Firefox 2 and 3.
| Attribute: | Firefox 2 | Firefox 3 |
|---|---|---|
| Max Connections | 24 | 30 |
| Max Connections per server | 8 | 15 |
| Max persistant connections per proxy | 4 | 8 |
| Max persistant connections per server | 2 | 4 |
As we can see the maximum number of connections and number of connections per server has been increased. So that’s good news for more parallel downloading. And they’ve also increased the number of persistance connections so that future requests will be a bit faster. Another interesting thing is that http pipelining is turned off by default.
So far Firefox 3 has been snappier and more memory efficient! Download Firefox 3 today and squeeze a bit more performance from your bandwidth!