Posts Tagged With: Firefox News
· August 26, 2008 at 6:08 am · Firefox News
Thanks to a new JavaScript engine (named TraceMonkey) it looks as if Firefox 3.1 is going to be getting a major boost in performance.
Here are the benchmarks thus far:
Be sure to check out Brendan’s Roadmap Updates for more. Also here are a few handy links from John Resig on the testing:
So the big question is, will Firefox be able to make Firefox 3.1 even faster in the area of JavaScript? If you have the nightly build of Firefox 3.1 installed, you can turn TraceMonkey on by going to about:config and then toggle the javascript.options.jit.content setting from false to true. For the rest of us out there though, this is just one more surprise to look forward to once Firefox 3.1 gets rolled out to the public.
For more info, be sure to check out Firefox 3.1 to Get More JavaScript Speed Optimizations - as the CyberNet team had done a good in-depth look into this and has done the best job at making it make sense to everybody.
· August 22, 2008 at 5:50 am · Firefox News
For those of you who didn’t like Firefox 3, or haven’t gotten around to updating yet - you only have a few more months left. On the Firefox 2 download page, Mozilla states:
Firefox 2.0.0.x will be maintained with security and stability updates until mid-December, 2008. All users are strongly encouraged to upgrade to Firefox 3.
Out with the old and in with the new! Just curious, for those who might be lagging behind, why are you still using Firefox 2? For the Firefox 3 users, what is your favorite feature you think might win them over?
(news via CyberNet)
· August 2, 2008 at 10:38 am · Firefox News
The team at Net Applications via their Market Share service have collected some very interesting numbers as it pertains to the current generation browser wars.
With browser market share, Firefox is at 19.22% across all operating systems. In third place is Safari at 6.14% - which shows you it pays to trick people into downloading your browser. Microsoft’s Internet Explorer is still the king of the mountain though with 73.02% of the market cornered.
Breaking down the Firefox numbers even further, it appears Firefox 2 is still used by 13.02% of the people while Firefox 3 is at 5.67%.
So overall, it is safe to say that everything is going good in Mozilla land. It seems like every time I check out a survey or poll like this, the number keep going up and up a few percentages every time. The browser wars are still heating up which in turn is good for all of us, regardless of the browser you use.
· July 23, 2008 at 2:00 pm · Firefox News
The team over at Wired have posted a very interesting article with Mozilla’s CEO, John Lilly about a number of topics. One of the topics that came up was iPhone and the easy somebody like Mozilla would have developing for it:
Wired: Are you going to develop a version of Firefox for the iPhone?
Lilly: No. Apple makes it too hard. They say it’s because of technical issues — they don’t want outsiders to disrupt the user experience. That’s a business argument masquerading as a technological argument. We’re focusing on more important stuff. The iPhone has been influential, but there’s not that many of them. We’re part of the LiMo Foundation — Linux on Mobile. The Razr V2 is a LiMo phone, and you’ll see more in the next year or so.
I do understand Apple’s need to “control the experience” with the iPhone, and hey… who knows, this could really open some doors for other phones and mobile devices. Also Apple isn’t going to want to take away from Safari which for me as a Windows user has not been much than bundle-ware with iTunes.
Check out the full interview with Lilly: The Mozilla CEO on His Firefox Strategy, His Google Gambit, and Working With Apple
· July 22, 2008 at 5:00 am · Firefox News
Firefox 3 has been launched with great success, so now it is time to start looking at Firefox 3.1. Right now it appears Firefox 3.1 Alpha should be released July 25th with a beta coming as soon as early August. It doesn’t look like Firefox 3.1 will just be fixes though, there are a lot of new features coming our way too…
Here are a few of them that are targeted for Alpha 1:
- worker threads (under review)
- offline storage / local storage (under review)
- downloadable fonts (kinda maybe)
- native JSON (under review)
- WHATWG <canvas> text API
- Awesomebar improvements (need review gavin, shepherding)
- border image (under review)
- media queries (under review)
- bulk tagging
- ctrl-tab
Will Firefox 3.1 create as much excitement around the world as Firefox 3 did?
· July 20, 2008 at 10:54 am · Firefox News
According to Mozilla Links, Firefox 3.1 will be getting the rumored update to tab switching that got a little buzz after Firefox 3 was launched.
As said, there’s also a new behavior for Ctrl + Tab. Instead of just moving left to the next opened tab, now it switches between the current and the last viewed tab and I have to say I’m already loving it. I usually have to check several other pages while posting and to ease the tab switching I moved the reference tab next to the post edit tab to have it a couple of keystrokes away. There’s no need now: I just took the long way to the reference tab once and then it’s already at reach.
Want this feature now? Check out the Ctrl-Tab add-on for Firefox.
· June 25, 2008 at 11:59 am · Firefox News
Told you last week about Google’s plans to kill off the semi-popular Google Browser Sync extension. According to Ars Technica, while they were tossing the dirt in the hole - somebody decided to do this:
Google is distributing the Browser Sync source code under the BSD license and is making it available through a Subversion source control repository on the Google Code website.
Good news for those of us who really liked this add-on. The reason for its popularity is that it didn’t just sync up your bookmarks. It also would transfer your passwords, history and cookies.
Personally, I am looking forward to giving Weave a shot (Mozilla’s version of the same service) due to the fact that Mozilla would know how to do it best. Right now from what I have seen, it looks like it is still kind of buggy.
Not much is up on the Google Code page for BrowserSync but will be worth keeping an eye on in the next few weeks and months ahead.
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