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Firefox 3.5 released

« on: July 01, 2009, 10:33:04 AM »

Been using the RC's for a couple of weeks, but yesterday the final version was released.

The speed improvement is nice.. also seems a little more stable? It uses the new faster javascript engine, so should be as fast as chrome now for dynamic apps.

Steals a few features from IE8/Chrome/etc

It's nice to be able to snap off tabs into new browser windows too.


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Re: Firefox 3.5 released

« Reply #1 on: July 01, 2009, 10:36:33 AM »

Always wanted to do that. I'll have to DL it tonight.


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Re: Firefox 3.5 released

« Reply #2 on: July 02, 2009, 11:16:55 AM »

Firefox 3.5 improved speeds by a lot but it's still in third place in javascript benchmarks. First and second place belong to Safari and Chrome respectively, if I remember correctly. Of course, it's a really close third for Firefox and I'm sure the slight drop in speed is forgivable for its added features.

I also hear that FF3.5 is obliterating IE8 in Microsoft's own tests.


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Re: Firefox 3.5 released

« Reply #3 on: July 02, 2009, 08:17:17 PM »

I am sure most appreciate that extra 0.2s improvement in a page load ..

To be honest I haven't noticed any difference in speed for Google docs.. that's about the only powerful javascript app I can think of.. haha