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Firefox 4 Regains Speed Mojo With No. 2 Placing
CWmike writes "With the release of Firefox 4 Beta 7 this week, Mozilla has returned to near the top spot in browser performance rankings. According to SunSpider JavaScript benchmark suite tests run by Computerworld, the new browser is about three times faster than the current production version of Firefox in rendering JavaScript, and lags behind only Opera among the top five browser makers. Mozilla launched Firefox 4 Beta 7, a preview that includes all the features slated to make it into the final, polished version next year, on Wednesday. Beta 7 was the first to include Mozilla's new JavaScript JIT (Just In Time) compiler, dubbed 'JagerMonkey,' which shot the browser's performance into the No. 2 slot behind the alpha of Opera 11."
Computerworld ran the SunSpider JavaScript benchmark suite in Windows Vista Business three times for each browser, then averaged the scores.
Does anyone else see a problem here? It must have been hell to run the test - the cancel or allow dialogue box would have made it maddeningly annoying, for one thing...
Our culture doesn't get smarter, it just finds new ways of being retarded.
I refer to the editors when I say kids, as they are just as incompetent and should be treated as such.
They are reporting this over a day late after many people submitted it, while the story they chose linked to a shitty comptuerworld article. Not only that, they can't even manage there site properly with news.slashdot.org being broken for about an hour. Pathetic. Getting around it by replacing the URL with http://slashdotisincompetent.slashdot.org/story/10/11/12/037241/Firefox-4-Regains-Speed-Mojo-With-No-2-Placing works fine though
As far as the browser is concerned, it's fucking awesome. I was initially very annoyed at the lack of status bar, but I am getting used to it. Indeed, all the functionality is at the top of the browser which means I don't have to scan to the bottom of the screen anymore. The thing missing are download progress. The main bug is the lack of easy download progress without having to have DM open, although this is being worked on.This won't stop people complaining because they are unable to adapt and realize the changes are better however.
Also, it's amazing just how much better their implementation of removing the status bar is then Chromes. Amazing.
The JavaScript improvement is magnificent. This is the first time I have ever been able to restore a session of about 10 slashdot pages each with over 500 comments all fully expanded, in less than 30 seconds. I guess this is because the JIT compiler cached the coder, and didn't have to interpret it for each page. As much as it seems like cheating, I can't disagree with the end result!
Good job Mozilla, continua leading the way and demonstrating just why you continue to hold the crown.
If you ignore ACs because they are anonymous - you're an idiot.