Firefox 18 With IonMonkey Now in Beta

[Guest]

Firefox just released the first beta of Firefox 18, which will be a milestone release for Mozilla as it introduces the IonMonkey JIT compiler.

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[vaughn2k]

Benchmark results will make me think and consider...

 

[greghome]

I like the name

 

[arunphilip]

I thought the date had been pushed out to 3/4 Jan to avoid the NY?

 

[johnsmithhatesVLC]

[citation][nom]vaughn2k[/nom]Benchmark results will make me think and consider...[/citation]
What about the tab management? Unlike Chrome it will always be able to show like the first 10 characters of the web page and everything about the browser is much more customizable. Also tab candy is really useful for organizing.

 

[ta152h]

They go from a hunting monkey to a monkey that's missing an electron? I'm not sure I follow that progression; but it's kind of weird. In a creepy way.

I'd name it Schwerpunkt. Then they could use the line "A browser without Schwerpunkt is like a man without character."

 

[dangerism]

Not sure if author knows what a speed bump is...

 

[sharpless78]

[citation][nom]ta152h[/nom]They go from a hunting monkey to a monkey that's missing an electron?[/citation]

There could be extra electrons too. 😉

 

[soundping]

That's one funky monkey.

 

[john15v16]

I hope they got it right this time...I used to only use firefox...would love to start using it more again...but it's chrome for the time being...

 

[randomizer]

I ran a couple of tests that I've used before on jsperf, and if anything this version was slower than 17. In fact it was considerably slower than IE10, let alone Chrome. Anyone can make benchmarks that make a browser look good or bad.