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So today I decided to install the new Beta of Firefox 3.5, Beta 99.

The new Firefox 3.5 Beta 99 has dramatic speed improvements of around 250% according to Betanews. For me in the first couple of minutes I noticed the speed increase in loading Facebook. Facebook is a very JavaScript intensive website and with the new Firefox 3.5, Mozilla has upgraded Firefox’s TraceMonkey engine which is Firefox’s JavaScript engine.

More and more websites are utilising JavaScript to create a better user experience especially Web 2.0 websites like Facebook, MySpace and pretty much all Google products

This is why it has become critically important for browsers to create/tweak their JavaScript rendering engines to load these scripts as fast as possible.

In the current browser war, Google Chrome 3.* and Safari 4 are the leaders of speed as can be seen in the diagram below.

Courtesy Betanews.com

For me personally there’s no going past Firefox. There’s just no competition. Yes it’s a bit slower than Chrome and Safari but the add-ons that Firefox provides makes life that much easier. I mean really any feature you can find on any browser will be made into an add-on for Firefox in a couple of days to a week max. You just can’t beat that.

The add-ons help make everyday tasks that much easier to manager and make Firefox that much better.

I’ll be running the new Beta at work to see how the new Firefox is coming along. If you’re a fan of Firefox and don’t mind running a Beta I suggest you try out the new Beta here.

Thanks,

Marat

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