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What do new web browsers need?
A fast Javascript engine it would appear from all of the press releases flying around about upcoming releases. The most recent from Opera about their new Javascript engine, called Carakan.
If you get down to the bottom of the press release there are some impressive numbers, doubling performance on cross platform versions and somewhere between 5 and 50 times faster on native code.
Why should we care about Javascript performance? Well it’s at the heart of Web 2.0 as the J in Ajax, and it’s getting harder to find websites that don’t use it. Bizarrely though I couldn’t find a logo so it is something of a backroom boy.
Google Chrome was really the first to champion its Javascript performance. Chrome isn’t just about processing code faster, but about giving every tab the ability to run Javascript independently of the others. I’ve noticed the delay of starting Firefox with 30 odd tabs as they load one after the other rather than all at the same time. You can read more in the graphic press release from Google from page 3 onwards.
Firefox has also got a new Javascript engine in the works called TraceMonkey. In Mozilla tests it did better than Google Chrome, so it looks like things are getting interesting.
So will people move from firefox to chrome ?
posted-by Xgrey | February 12, 2009 6:21 AM
Hey Andy - offensive language not to be encouraged . . . .
posted-by geebs46 | February 12, 2009 9:10 PM
Well, I don't know, I tried using Chrome and I just don't like it as much as Firefox. I can't use the plug-ins I'm so used to in FF, but I guess now that Google dropped FF, we'll see more of it around...
posted-by Gina | February 14, 2009 11:19 AM
gracias por la informacion
posted-by Colombiangirls | February 14, 2009 5:42 PM
Has Google really dropped firefox? I thought they were still the largest funder behind FF - some would argue that FF wouldn't exist without them.
posted-by vanessa | February 15, 2009 1:12 PM
I don't like chrome either I find firefox to be superior
posted-by Brian | February 16, 2009 2:49 PM
I haven't really tried Chrome, but I like the way it looks as compared to firefox (it is minimalistic... I like that)
posted-by Mina Shafiei | February 16, 2009 10:28 PM
I use Chrome for the past three months from now. Since Chrome load faster than Firefox in the first attempt of opening.
3 Minutes later I click at Firefox logo while browsing my Gmail account in Chrome.
However, after Firefox opened, I switch to it from Chrome since the Google Toolbar is not with Chrome yet.
It seems that whoever load faster it will suddenly become interesting.
posted-by buyawa | February 19, 2009 7:01 AM
I have been using FireFox for a while and I am getting fed up with it. It always "hangs"
on me.
Does anyone know how to get the browser.places to remain set to the original settings?
posted-by Faccin Chiropratic | February 20, 2009 7:55 PM
I also like FF b/c of all the plugins though it can definitely frustrate me from time to time with hanging or just slowness, then again, thats probably more due to me using too many tabs at once
Chris
posted-by Chris | February 25, 2009 8:56 PM
I think i will still prefer to use firefox- it's more user friendly.
posted-by Daniel Stevens | February 26, 2009 12:20 PM
Google Chrome is still new and developing- but it will be interesting to watch how things goes.
posted-by Rudy | February 26, 2009 12:22 PM
I can say I have never had any success using FF, I may give Chrome a try if it is worth checking out!?
posted-by Shawn | February 27, 2009 2:49 AM
Hi Guys,
I just started using firefox just recently. The reason because everytime I tried to connect to internet it takes awhile when I used 7.0. I got tired of it. It was taking me a minute to load. So I said what is hell. I tried firefox and it's so fast. I don't know why I did not use it before. But I am glad I did.
posted-by George | March 2, 2009 12:14 AM
I agree with the Firefox users, I cannot find anything else I like better and with all the plug-ins it seems to be tops. I was wondering why it goes nuts at times and I cannot prevent my pointer from drifting aimlessly when I have a lot of tabs in my browser bar. I have 4 gigs of Ram so that shouldn't be the problem. Only other thing I can think of is that I keep a lot of files on my desktop. Does that rob me of RAM? Any ideas? Thanks, JM
posted-by John Mauldin | March 6, 2009 9:53 PM