Firefox 9.0 Beta Available 291
An anonymous reader tips news that, right on schedule after Tuesday's Firefox 8.0 launch, Mozilla has rolled out the beta of Firefox 9.0. This update brings a significant boost to JavaScript performance, UI improvements for the OS X Lion version, and Do Not Track opt-out detection for developers. 9.0 beta also "supports chunking for XHR requests so websites can receive data that’s part of a large XHR download in progress. This helps developers make websites and Web apps faster, especially those that download large sets of data or via AJAX."
The IE team has stopped sending cakes (Score:5, Funny)
It's too expensive now.
I do not know what to do... (Score:4, Funny)
I do not know if I want to test FF9 now, that my day is coming to an end here at work, or well, just wait to come home and test FF10.
I vote to change meaning of FF "Fast Forward" (Score:5, Funny)
it certainly seems like it from recent increased version numbers pace
Another JavaScript boost (Score:5, Funny)
Counting all the times I've heard about JavaScript boosts, everything written in that language must be faster than quantum computing now.
Re:The IE team has stopped sending cakes (Score:5, Funny)
A ploy (Score:4, Funny)
Re:This is ridiculous (Score:5, Funny)
Slashdot should just create a cron job to post these Firefox stories. They could save a lot of time in the long run.
While they are at it, make it automatically post some BitCoin, Australia and Steve Jobs stories. Maybe throw in a random number generator and automate dupes too.
Re:Please stop.... (Score:2, Funny)
You know there are alternatives to Chrome. You may hate IE 6 like 90% of us slashdotters, but newer versions are shockingly better [blogspot.com]. As in hell freezes over better from that link!
I quit FF last March shortly after 4.0 and never looked back. Seriously it is the bottom of all modern web browsers. It is great that FF 7 and 8 are much lighter and load as quick as Chrome, but they have over 6000 bugs! FF is the new IE 6 of the 2010s and it pains me to say this as I have been using it since it was called phoenix and then firebird back in 2004.
Usage according to statcounter shows in the US IE is gaining marketshare and Chrome is about tied to FF. It is dying. Just like I use IE and Chrome now I am open to FF in the future if they decide they are caught up and start doing things like improving Javascript conformance like in that test above and fixing all those bugs. IE and Chrome are just better and work.
After a week you wont miss FF that much and will start wondering why you haven't left earlier. Trust me
Re:This is ridiculous (Score:4, Funny)