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Firefox 3.6 boosts performance by 22.8 percent

by on14 October 2009

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First beta build available today

The
fruitful developer team at Mozilla has been hard at work over the course of the past few summer months in preparation to roll out the company’s latest Firefox beta release build.

BetaNews is reporting that week’s Firefox 3.6 beta build is expected to boost performance in JavaScript execution and page rendering by nearly 22.8 percent over Firefox 3.5. The site tested the latest available development and stable builds of all five major Web browsers on Windows XP SP3,Windows Vista SP2 and Windows 7 RTM. In particular, the testing consisted of mathematics, geometry, control, and several other facets of page rendering.

In perspective, the upcoming Mozilla Firefox 3.6 release will first and foremost focus on perceivable browsing improvements in the time it takes to “do things.” Not only will JavaScript handling and page rendering speed be improved upon, but also bookmark synchronization, optimized session store, form completion tools, and new lightweight themes. The development team plans on releasing the first beta of Firefox 3.6 sometime today, with the final release due in the first half of 2010.

More here.


Update:

Firefox 3.60 beta 1 nightly build (English) can be downloaded here.

Last modified on 15 October 2009
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