Unfortunately, the CPU of my MSI Wind U100 is not as fast as the one found in desktop systems…which has made keeping multiple tabs open in FireFox a major chore due to the browser’s weak JavaScript engine. However, this has changed significantly in the latest publicly-released betas: this post is written with beta 2 of FireFox 3.1, which works flawlessly and is very very fast.
The boys have just released yet another beta, which is said to improve the following:
Firefox 3.1 Beta 3 is based on the Gecko 1.9.1 rendering platform, which has been under development for the past 9 months. Firefox 3.1 is an incremental release on the previous version with significant changes to improve web compatibility, performance, and ease of use:
* This beta is now available in 64 languages – get your local version.
* Improved the new Private Browsing Mode.
* Improvements to web worker thread support.
* Improved performance and stability with the new TraceMonkey JavaScript engine.
* New native JSON support.
* Improvements to the Gecko layout engine, including speculative parsing for faster content rendering.
* Support for new web technologies such as the video and audio elements, the W3C Geolocation API, JavaScript query selectors, CSS 2.1 and 3 properties, SVG transforms and offline applications.
Further information can be had here:
http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/3.1b3/releasenotes/
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