Firefox 4 beta has big speed improvements

[HunkyLuke]

Firefox 4, beta 7 was released yesterday with a number of new features designed to speed it up. The mozilla blog update reports a number of improvements, including a new JavaScript engine "JägerMonkey JIT compiler" that significantly improves speed in faster start-up time, improved page-load speed and the performance of Web apps and games.

The new beta also incorporates hardware-accelerated graphics (using DirectX in Windows XP and OpenGL on Mac OS) plus WebGL (leveraging your OpenGL graphic cards) to boost graphic performance.

Check out the full blog entry here or download the latest beta directly from firefox.com/beta

[lonny]

i was using FF 4 for a while back in the beta 1 days. decided to drop it do to it crashing alot cause of the flash block ad on i was using.

will give it another try and see how its performing now.

thanks for the insight.

[x0pa]

yup seems faster didnt crash when i loaded up a ton of flash websites YAY

and the most important feature for me is on mac right click icon in the dock to create new window

[lonny]

status bar is missing other then that its great.

[x0pa]

well that sucks where is my color picker and measure it going to go?
having issue with camtwist not being recognized ;(