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Mozilla Plans Big Memory Usage Improvements for Firefox 10, 11 and Beyond

Mozilla has been working on improving Firefox's memory performance lately. Some of the improvements should already be visible in the latest Firefox 7 stable release, but testing releases, Firefox 8 and Firefox 9 move things even further along.But Mozilla is not done yet, is is now working on slimming down its Ja...

2 November 2011
16:31 GMT

JaegerMonkey to Give Firefox a Significant JavaScript Performance Boost

Most browser makers tout JavaScript performance these days, at least, if they have what to brag about. Unlike most numbers and stats shoved in front of people, JavaScript performance actually matters and modern browsers have made spectacular leaps in speed to keep up with the latest powerful web apps. But since no on...

1 March 2010
12:50 GMT

Firefox 3.6 Brings Improved JavaScript Performance Especially for Add-Ons

JavaScript performance has become the megahertz war of web browsers and each vendor is trying to one up the other in this area. This can be largely attributed to Google's quest for improved web app performance, which it pursued with its own Chrome web browser. When Google Chrome came out, it left all other brow...

14 January 2010
09:53 GMT

Firefox 3.5's TraceMonkey and the Importance of Native Code

Google has just announced it will begin to integrate its Native Client technology with its Chrome browser but that doesn't mean that it's the only one doing it. In fact Mozilla is already offering a similar technology in its Firefox 3.5 browser. Called TraceMonkey, the technology translates commonly used Ja...

12 June 2009
09:36 GMT

Firefox 3.1 Beta 3 Drops in February 2009

As Microsoft is working to produce the first Release Candidate Build of Internet Explorer 8, Mozilla is pushing the next development milestone of Firefox 3.1 back because of the issues still plaguing the Beta 3 of codename Shiretoko. In this context, Firefox 3.1 Beta 3 will not be made available for download by the e...

16 January 2009
06:47 GMT

Mozilla: Firefox 3.1 Alpha 2 RC Faster than Google Chrome

Firefox 3.1 codename Shiretoko Alpha 2 Release Candidate is faster than Google Browser (Chrome), according to Brendan Eich, chief architect, Mozilla. The fact of the matter is that the comparison involves only the two browsers' respective JavaScript rendering engines, namely TraceMonkey for Firefox and V8 for Ch...

4 September 2008
12:53 GMT


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