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Tracing JavaScript Engine Coming in Firefox 3 Could Give 20-40x Performance Boost in Some Scenarios
Ars has a piece up about the Tracemonkey JavaScript engine work that we will first see in Firefox 3.1 (currently in nightlies) but is the first part of major JavaScript work known as Tamarin that won’t be seen until Firefox 4.0. Apparently the Mozilla JavaScript engine is getting worked over from the ground up with an [...]
Continue reading...Animation of a (Mozilla) Browser Reflowing a Webpage
Friday, June 6, 2008
Thanks to Grant Gochnauer for sending in a sweet link with some awesome animations by Satoshi Ueyama that show how the Gecko web page rendering engine (used in Mozilla/Firefox) reflows a webpage and essentially renders it on the fly as the HTML streams down the engine positions it and makes heads or tails of it. Here’s [...]
Continue reading...Firefox 3 Benchmarks Show Huge Improvements
Thursday, February 28, 2008
(Author’s Note: No, using a half topless woman is not a cheap gimmick to get you to read this article… it’s… art… with boobs… so technically, it’s boobs-art. Whatever, you wouldn’t understand, you aren’t as artistic as I am) Grant Gochnauer and Marc Chung sent in a slew of benchmarks for the nightly builds of Firefox [...]
Continue reading...Mozilla Working Hard on Firefox Visual Refresh
Wednesday, October 17, 2007
Ars has a good piece discussing the hard work that Mozilla is putting together to visually refresh Firefox on all the major platforms (Windows XP/Vista, Linux, Mac). In the original post only Windows and Mac were mentioned specifically as the main targets for the visual-fidelity refresh, but after a lot of user outcry two (1, 2) [...]
Continue reading...Mozilla Fixing Memory Leaks in Firefox 3
Friday, September 21, 2007
Grant Gochnauer sent this gem along, it looks like the Mozilla team is hard at work making Firefox 3 not suck as hard as Firefox 2 did when it came to memory usage. For those that don’t know, the longer you use Firefox, the more memory it leaks. It’s very common to have 1 tab [...]
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Friday, August 22, 2008
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