Firefox 3 Beta 4 Out And Faster
Firefox 3 Beta 4 is now available for download and the new improvement is speed. This is due to a change in the javascript engine as well as the “profile guided optimization”. Read more about new features after the jump.
New features in Firefox 3 Beta 4:
- Improvements to the user interface: better search support in the Download Manager, ability to zoom entire page or just the text, continuing look and feel improvements on Windows Vista, Windows XP, Mac OS X and Linux.
- Richer personalization through: location bar that uses an algorithm based on site visit recency and frequency (called “frecency”) to provide better matches against your history and bookmarks for URLs and page titles, as well as an adaptive learning algorithm which tunes itself to your browsing habits.
- Improved platform features such as: support for HTML5’s window.postMessage and window.messageEvent, JavaScript 1.8 improvements, and offline data storage for web applications.
- Performance improvements: changes to our JavaScript engine as well as profile guided optimization resulted in significant gains over previous releases in the popular SunSpider test from Apple, web applications like Google Mail and Zoho Office run much faster, and continued improvements to memory usage drastically reduce the amount of memory consumed over long web browsing sessions.
Source: Firefox 3 beta 4 now available for download
on March 28th, 2008 at 9:50 pm
One bad thing I noticed with this BETA is that I had my entire website based on the way Firefox v.2.0.0.12 handled opened windows in another tab within ONE instance of firefox open. This new Beta handles my new windows in another window behind the parent window. This makes two instances of firefox open HEY!!!!! Consider changing that handling back to version 2.0.0.12 handling of new windows. PLEASE
I would like to know who did the fox logo and if I can use it on my website.
on March 28th, 2008 at 10:03 pm
Handling of opening new windows in another tab, as you had with version 2.0.0.12, is better than what you have with this beta 3. My website has to be changed now that you have done this. WHY? It was better with 2.0.0.12 handling, change this in beta 3.