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firefox is undoubtedly one of the best browsers around it combines a huge and full-featured add-on catalog decent performance and has more users than Safari Chrome and opera combined now on its 3.6 release it adds built-in one-click theme support slightly improved performance and a host of smaller changes using the SunSpider JavaScript benchmark firefox 3.6 comes out behind opera chrome and safari but still far ahead of Internet Explorer 8 the same holds true we look at the Mozilla dromio benchmark although once again it hangs only a small amount behind the rest looking at Celtic Kane's tests Firefox lags much farther behind than the previous scoring less than half the points the chrome did in Google's v8 benchmark it also falls behind by a considerable margin although it doesn't do nearly as bad as the graph makes it look moving to the acid3 test which doesn't focus as much on outright speed firefox 3.6 narrowly misses a perfect 100 score instead notching a still impressive 94 using the Peacekeeper benchmark a great overall browser test brings together the browser's nicely with Firefox Safari and Chrome all very close for second place so while Firefox may not be the fastest browser that's only part of the test starting out the browser is always a big indicator of overall speed and here Firefox does a decent if not spectacular job from a cold start which is an indicator of how long it will take to load with the computer just booted Firefox opens in a bit under 3 seconds which isn't too bad at all the warm start simulating restarting the browser after it has been opened recently isn't quite as impressive but it still gets the job done in under two seconds when you get into memory however is where Firefox really shines with only a single tab open it takes up a bit more memory than Safari in Internet Explorer but once it's been loaded up with eight tabs it's only uses a bit more memory than Chrome uses with just a single tab for older or low RAM computers this is great and will definitely make your life a lot easier Firefox is a browser that is something that you just can't judge off the bat by default it doesn't look that great but with the built-in personas support you can instantly try out thousands of different themes performance isn't top of the class and yet it certainly gets around just fine and the speed difference isn't entirely obvious while it's customizable just like Chrome and opera instead of being just a nice-to-have thing you basically entirely customize all aspects of Firefox with its excellent add-on site you can download themes flash blockers weather checkers email clients and much much more Firefox is a great browser it works well on all platforms including Linux and Mac if the level of customization is really really solid the only things holding it back here are it's somewhat dated interface and only decent speed there's no denying that it's a great browser and its place in the finishing order has less to do with Firefox as faults that it does that the other two browsers are just so good that said firefox 3.6 brings back a third place finish now feel free to go back to the main video via the annotation on your screen to see how the rest of the browser's did you