Firefox Beta Touts Advanced Engine, Solves 8 Flaws

nandemoari writes "Mozilla may be this year's winner in the 'browser battles' as they ready the next beta version of their tour-de-force, Firefox 3.1. Mozilla is resolving eight critical vulnerabilities found in the current version of Firefox — a move sure to garner applause from devoted Firefox users. As this year's crop of new browsers emerges, enhanced features are becoming secondary to one thing: speed. Mozilla is nearly ready to release the next beta version of Firefox 3.1 to the public for testing, and insiders predict that it will outpace even Safari 4, which has been the fastest browser in wide release since its beta began last week." It looks like they also will be upping the next major release to v3.5 to better show the significance of the release.

Comments

Re:I hope they fix a couple of things

[beelsebob]

This article is complete rabid fanboyism. Spending about 10 minutes (thanks to the server being slow atm) downloading the very latest minefield and enabling the JIT JS engine revealed these results (tests conducted on a 4-core 2.8Ghz MacPro)

V8 Benchmark (higher scores are better):
Safari 4 beta: 1866
Minefield: 285
FF 3.0.7: 201

Sunspider (lower times are better):
Safari 4 Beta: 981.0ms
Minefield: 1391.6ms
FF 3.0.7: 2758.8ms

Re:ACID3

[Daengbo]

And then you get modded "Redundant" to a discussion that happened three hours after your post. Sigh. Happens all the time. There's only one real thread in most people's minds. Then there's the stuff at the bottom of the page.