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Mozilla Releases Firefox 3.1 Alpha 2
daria42 writes with news that Mozilla has released the second alpha build for Firefox 3.1, codenamed "Shiretoko." The new build includes "support for the HTML 5 <video> element" and the ability to "drag and drop tabs between browser windows." ComputerWorld is running a related story about benchmarks shown by Mozilla's Brendan Eich which indicate that Firefox 3.1 will run Javascript faster than Chrome.
From Eich's interview:
Eich disagreed. Although he called V8 "great work, very well engineered," Eich said TraceMonkey has more potential than Google's interpreter for additional, and dramatic, speed improvements. "We've only been working on TraceMonkey for, what, three months now," he said in an interview today. Google has said its Danish engineers had been working on V8 for approximately two years.
TraceMonkey was possible in three months only thanks to the efforts of Adobe on developing the AVM2 engine (aka Tamarin), which took over 2 years to complete and release. Tamarin's Micro JIT engine is what powers the heart of TraceMonkey and is a significant part of the update we'll see in Firefox 3.1.
I don't like that Eich seems to not give any credit to Adobe at all for their contribution, and on top of that tries to belittle the effort of Google, who are technically paying their sallaries at Mozilla Corp.
Also, I would categorize this as a low priority bug(OMFG? Pressing a button AN EXTRA COUPLE OF TIMES? You still alive?), so don't hold your breath. It is also in the 1.8 branch..
You know one thing I find annoying?
Users that find bugs and never tell you about them.
And you are... the soup Nazi? Seriously, what the hell?? Is it your time of month or something? After reading that flamebait, I'm seriously wondering if you work for Microsoft. You seem to be intentionally trying to piss off the Mozilla user base.
Shit, no mod points for +funny. Slashdot modders fucking suck :(.