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Mozilla Unleashes JaegerMonkey Enabled Firefox 4

Posted by timothy on 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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  1. Re:Who cares? by Myopic · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Who cares? You can't make a guess at answering that question? Okay I'll give you the answer: everyone but you.

  2. Re:Kinda Sad by hey! · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Why the heck should anyone be sad? One of the reasons open source is so important to the industry is to prevent the state of the art in software from becoming moribund. Microsoft practically stopped working on IE once it had what it thought was an unbreakable monopoly on browsers. Imagine where we'd be today without Firefox and the Apache Group. It might be a world of IE6 browsers served from VB ASPs on IIS 5.

    Even people who don't use F/OSS benefit from it.

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  3. Re:Kinda Sad by samkass · · Score: 4, Insightful

    When no one cared about JS performance, the Open Source crowd was king, then all of a sudden big corporate money was poured into JS performance and now FOSS is lagging behind.

    Last I checked both WebKitCore and V8 were faster than IE9 and were both open source (the former LGPL and the latter NewBSD). I don't think this is a FOSS vs. Proprietary thing, just a Mozilla vs. Everyone Else thing.

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  4. Re:The Slashdot Firefox Paradox by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Insightful

    All browsers cry when they hit Idle. I don't think it's actually a code problem, I think everything cries at the sight of Idle.

  5. Re:Kinda Sad by $RANDOMLUSER · · Score: 3, Insightful

    It might be a world of IE6 browsers served from VB ASPs on IIS 5.

    I just threw up in my mouth a little.

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  6. Hyperbolic flamebait by FranTaylor · · Score: 3, Insightful

    the only thing Firefox has going for it is adblock and the huge extension repository. Even then, its debatable

    Apparently access to source code and the ability to be compiled and run on platforms like BSD and Solaris doesn't count for anything any more.