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[Nvyseal]

images/news/firefox.jpgOne of the most impressive features in Google's open source Chrome web browser is V8, a high-performance JavaScript virtual machine that was developed by a team of specialists in Denmark. Although Chrome's performance beats the current stable version of Firefox, benchmarks show that Mozilla's next-generation JavaScript engine actually outperforms V8.

Mozilla is using tracing optimization techniques and Adobe's open source nanojit to increase the execution speed of SpiderMonkey, the JavaScript runtime engine in the Firefox web browser. The new engine, which is called TraceMonkey, delivers unprecedented JavaScript performance. The new optimizations have already landed in the latest Firefox nightly builds (but still have to be manually enabled) and will likely be included in Firefox 3.1.

JavaScript creator and Mozilla CTO Brendan Eich ran the SunSpider JavaScript benchmarks against Chrome and the latest TraceMonkey-enabled Firefox build, which includes some recent improvements. The benchmarks show that TraceMonkey is clearly faster than Google's V8. Mozilla believes that the optimization technique used in TraceMonkey has the potential to unlock even more performance improvements.

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[ShadowFox]

It's JavaWars time XD

[highlander]

I really like firefox... i liked chrome... it appears to be faster in a few areas.. but i guess its JUST perception.

[m.oreilly]

highlander, on Sep 3 2008, 07:50 PM, said:

I really like firefox... i liked chrome... it appears to be faster in a few areas.. but i guess its JUST perception.

um, nope. it is just faster...atm...

[highlander]

Hm.. guess i'll have to try it out again...
I like the home page though... hm... are there any add ons? like FF has??

[highlander]

Is there a way to set the links bar at the top?

[m.oreilly]

highlander, on Sep 4 2008, 08:51 PM, said:

Is there a way to set the links bar at the top?

you can drag and drop your bookmarks/faves to the bar. no addons that i know of...

[ShadowFox]

As of now no add ons I really wish people would read things before they install them, it's a beta give it time they do aim to add add-ons but at the current present moment there are no capabilities. Also Chromium is an Open Source project you could always give it a go on trying to create and addon feature.