This is great indeed. Firefox is now at least on par, if not above all competitors when it comes to speed/performances/memory usage, while those used to be the main "selling points" of Opera and Safari over Firefox (and IE, but whatever :p).
I can't wait to see how much better Firefox 4 will be...
Congratulations! This is great news. I'm very happy for Firefox and Mozilla. I think very soon Firefox will have 50 or even 65% market share in USA. I don't think IE can catch up now. Firefox has been better than IE for a long time, but with the advantages this overwhelming, I think we'll see some rapid changes.
But let's not count our chickens before the eggs hatch. The beta is not over yet. :) I just can't help myself. I've been running Minefield for the past month or so (on PC and Mac) and I love it so far.
Getting Javascript speedups would be nice too, but I guess the major Javascript speedups will happen with Tamarin integration. It would be nice to get some Javascript speedups before Tamarin hits the street though.
Stifu, JS has been the biggest area of speed increases in Firefox 3. We're now the fastest browser on the planet when it comes to JS :-) See some of the recent coverage here:
Asa: yes, I know, I've been following the news quite closely... :)
But Safari 3.1 and the WIP Webkit seem like quite tough competitors on that point (with slightly better perf on Mac, from what I read).
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This is great indeed. Firefox is now at least on par, if not above all competitors when it comes to speed/performances/memory usage, while those used to be the main "selling points" of Opera and Safari over Firefox (and IE, but whatever :p).
I can't wait to see how much better Firefox 4 will be...
Posted by: Stifu | March 13, 2008 12:39 PM
Congratulations! This is great news. I'm very happy for Firefox and Mozilla. I think very soon Firefox will have 50 or even 65% market share in USA. I don't think IE can catch up now. Firefox has been better than IE for a long time, but with the advantages this overwhelming, I think we'll see some rapid changes.
But let's not count our chickens before the eggs hatch. The beta is not over yet. :) I just can't help myself. I've been running Minefield for the past month or so (on PC and Mac) and I love it so far.
Getting Javascript speedups would be nice too, but I guess the major Javascript speedups will happen with Tamarin integration. It would be nice to get some Javascript speedups before Tamarin hits the street though.
Posted by: Leo | March 13, 2008 4:25 PM
Stifu, JS has been the biggest area of speed increases in Firefox 3. We're now the fastest browser on the planet when it comes to JS :-) See some of the recent coverage here:
http://cybernetnews.com/2008/02/25/firefox-3-performance-gets-a-boost/
http://mozillalinks.org/wp/2008/02/firefox-3-ultimate-feature-performance/
and
http://blogs.zdnet.com/hardware/?p=1470&page=2.
And we're even better today than we were when those benchmarks were run. Firefox three is a speed demon.
- A
Posted by: Asa Dotzler | March 13, 2008 4:35 PM
Asa: yes, I know, I've been following the news quite closely... :)
But Safari 3.1 and the WIP Webkit seem like quite tough competitors on that point (with slightly better perf on Mac, from what I read).
Posted by: Stifu | March 14, 2008 11:41 AM