Firefox 18 Beta Out: Faster JavaScript Via IonMonkey, Built-in PDF Vewer

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Submission + - Firefox 18 Beta Out: Faster JavaScript Via IonMonkey, Built-in PDF Vewer

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 26, 2012 @09:00PM

An anonymous reader writes: Mozilla on Monday announced the release of Firefox 18 beta for Windows, Mac, and Linux. You can download it now from Mozilla.org/Firefox/Beta. The biggest addition in this update is significant JavaScript improvements, courtesy of Mozilla’s new JavaScript JIT compiler called IonMonkey. The company promises the performance bump should be noticeable whenever Firefox is displaying Web apps, games, and other JavaScript-heavy pages.

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