New Firefox Beta 3x Faster Than Current Firefox

[wave84]

And by the way: this makes you wonder, how horribly wrong were these things coded from the start?! If you can achieve a 3x speed improvement by modifying some code, doesn't this mean that the first version was pretty lousy to begin with?

 

[Guest]

wave84, your question betrays your ignorance. in all software design, there is a trade off between memory use, speed, complexity. as the market expectation has evolved, the best approach also changes. it would have been a mistake for someone to invest this much in javascript performance before people were attempting complex site development using heavy javascript libraries. A few years ago, the main use of javascript was running a half dozen lines of javascript when someone pressed a button or hovered over an element. in that context, a simple interpreter would get the job done before a javascript compiler could begin actually running the code.

 

[eddieroolz]

Mozilla can keep bragging about how their Javascript engine is fast, but if the browser doesn't launch in 30 seconds like it does on many people's laptops/desktops, it won't be of any use.

Once they improve Firefox to launch with the speed of IE9 x64 or Chrome, I'll consider using it.

 

[Guest]

i disagree with all of you i miss personas i miss functionality.i miss firefox 3.6.yes i am a firefox fanboy but i believe this new approach is just trying to compete with google chrome. which i will never use i dont trust google. i think firefox should stay the way it is. also its really fast on my computer. i have have a mainstream laptop. so i dont understand why its so slow on you computers. that is unless your using netbooks.