chinesepiratefood
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Nightly builds != STABLE RELEASE!!!
I know about 64bit FireFox, and it seems fast because now it can allocate more than 2GB Ram for its own process, which is a 32bit limitation. The other problems remain do, like a single tab being able to crash all the other ones, or if someone is deviant enough, they can create a PHP script that when loaded can snoop on the other threads.
Let me dumb it down one more time: a process is a bundle of threads which share the same memory pool (same buffer). Each tab is run o a thread. Threads don't have their own memory, and a single process is ran on a single core (because of the memory sharing for the threads). So FireFox can take advantage of HyperThreading, but not of multiple cores.
Mozilla will fix this performance limitation and security, the question is how long we'll have to wait. In the meantime, for the rest of us who aren't so ignorant there are at least a couple of alternatives like Opera or Chrome.
Not sure if serious.......