Firefox 3 will be a speed demon

by Giovanni Glass February 28, 2008 7:04 pm Permalink
690 views Filed under: browser, Firefox, open source
Source: cybernetnews

The latest Firefox 3 builds are slowly but surely coming together as the Mozilla programmers are tweaking and speeding up Gecko 1.9 and Spidermonkey, the rendering engine cores of Firefox and the browse applet in the OLPC.

According to cybernetnews, a special PGO build is showing marked speed improvements over Firefox beta 3. Web pages that make heavy use of Javascript and DHTML will show improved performance. Their tests show it beating Opera 9.5 beta (the current javascript/DHTML speed king) and Safari 3. IE7 is trailing behind.

In my own informal testing, I have noticed improved memory usage, less memory usage that is, with FF3. As all Firefox 2 users who use many plugins can attest, Firefox is a memory hog.

The next OLPC build will use a variant of the latest Gecko engine. Hopefully the latest Gecko improvements will move upstream into the build.

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