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Sathish
Sathish Original post #1
Nov 17, 2008 at 9:34 PM
mozilla has launched firefox 3.1. beta version..


Firefox 3.1 Beta 1 is based on the Gecko 1.9.1 rendering platform, which has been under development for the past 6 months. Gecko 1.9.1 is an incremental release on the previous version with significant changes to improve web compatibility, performance, and ease of use:

  • Web standards improvements in the Gecko layout engine
  • Added support for CSS 2.1 and CSS 3 properties
  • A new tab-switching shortcut that shows previews of the tab you're switching to
  • Improved control over the Smart Location Bar using special characters to restrict your search
  • Support for new web technologies such as the <video> and <audio> elements, the W3C Geolocation API, JavaScript query selectors, web worker threads, SVG transforms and offline applications. source *www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/all-beta.html
i feels it is bit faster than 3.0.4.
anybody have experience about beta version. :confused:
victor_rambo
Nov 17, 2008 at 9:45 PM
I suppose, v3.2 onwards, they would also use tracemonkey engine for javascript, which I read is blazing fast. I supposed, if you are using some beta, then you can try tracemoneky.

Anyone here tried tracemonkey?
4T7
4T7 #3
Nov 17, 2008 at 10:32 PM
Using fx3.1 and tracemonkey is gr8 :D
Ecko
Ecko #4
Nov 17, 2008 at 10:50 PM
With extensions enabled I didn't find any incremental change like that in Chrome