Mozilla Unleashes JaegerMonkey Enabled Firefox 4

Posted by timothy on Thursday September 9, 2010 @08:27AM from the some-big-hype-to-live-up-to dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Mozilla has published the first Firefox 4 build that integrates a new JavaScript engine that aims to match the performance in IE9 and reduces the gap to Safari, Opera and Chrome. This is really the big news we have been waiting for all along with Firefox 4 and it appears that the JavaScript performance is pretty dramatic and seems to beat IE9 at least as far as ConceivablyTech shows. Good to see Mozilla back in the game." The Mozilla blog gives a good overview of the improvements this brings; Tom's Hardware also covers the release.

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Re:I Want Advanced Blocking Capabilities by coolsnowmen · 2010-09-09 09:09 · Score: 4, Funny

A /. viewer who uses firefox, but hasn't heard of ad-block or noscript?
Todo list:
[ ] Turn in geek card
[ ] Write a will
[ ] Buy shotgun
Re:The Slashdot Firefox Paradox by cc1984_ · 2010-09-09 09:26 · Score: 2, Funny

The site of Idle, surely?
Re:Kinda Sad by D+Ninja · 2010-09-09 09:27 · Score: 2, Funny

It might be a world of IE6 browsers served from VB ASPs on IIS 5.
:: cry :: Make him stop, mommy!
Re:In a Beta? by Anonymous Coward · 2010-09-09 10:13 · Score: 3, Funny

That's not from the jaeger, that's from the ass-raping after you pass out.