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Firefox Beta Touts Advanced Engine, Solves 8 Flaws

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the more-is-better-right dept.

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.

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  1. First posts suckerz! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    First posts suckerz!

  2. ACID3 by gravos · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    So Firefox 3.1 scores a 93 on the Web Standards Project's Acid3 standards compliance test. Firefox 3.0.6 only scores 71. Of course, you can't get any better than Safari 4 beta's score: a perfect 100. Or Opera 10 Beta's 100. So why doesn't Mozilla get on the ball?

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    1. Re:ACID3 by electrosoccertux · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      Also, please don't reply to posts that you are actually not replying to. Replying to the first post is obvious attention seeking.

      That's a good point. I first noticed this over on Reddit and Digg; now it's popping up here. I plan to start using my mod points (and I get a lot of them) to mark people who clearly are misusing the threading system "Off Topic".
      So if you want to do it, beware; if it's off topic in the thread at the top it better be a good post and worth reading.

    2. Re:ACID3 by Daengbo · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      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.

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  3. Re:I hope they fix a couple of things by beelsebob · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    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