Hands on with blazingly quick Firefox 3.5
Mozilla Corp. has delayed the release candidate of Firefox 3.5 from this week ‘til next, but NBR's tests reveal it'll be worth the wait - this fox is blazingly fast.
Typically the browser itself will ship two weeks after the release candidate, allowing for final bugs to be fixed, which means the company will be pushing it to reach its end-of-month deadline for Firefox 3.5's final code.
Your correspondent has been (completely unscientifically) testing the 3.5 Beta 4 version with Windows Vista, and can confirm that the new browser is quick enough to warrant a ticket.
Thanks to the new TraceMonkey Javascript engine under the hood, the browser eats video and flash intensive web sites for breakfast, loading them in half the time of Firefox’s current version, 3.0. As an added bonus, no additional plugins are now needed to view flash or video content.
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