Mozilla Claims 25% Improvement in Firefox Startup Speed
Mozilla developer Taras Glek promises a big performance boost for Firefox 18.
Scheduled for release on January 1, 2013, Firefox 18 will bring a startup performance that is improved by 20 - 25 percent, according to Glek. In a blog post, he noted that half of the speedup was achieved by accelerated library loading.
It appears that Firefox 18 and 19 will deliver in comparison to Firefox 17, which will be released on November 20, more performance improvements. Glek referred to a streamlined tab strip in which the amount of tab closing animations taking more than 400 ms was reduced from a share of about 20 percent to just 3 percent. The overwhelming share of tab animation closings now has a time of about 150 ms.
The IonMonkey Javascript engine also appears to be on schedule for debut in Firefox 18. Mozilla currently rates the IonMonkey browser as the fastest JavaScript browser in the Sunspider benchmark, as a close rival to Chrome in Kraken and behind Chrome and Safari in Google's v8 benchmark.
Funny, i use FF because of the UI instead of Chrome. UI ends up being a question of choice. Just so happens some like one more often over the other. Plus I enjoy sync. Nice FF feature (not tied to one of the big names of the industry).
Enjoy your partially abandoned IE9.
I was defaulting to a 2003 survey that stated that IE6 had a little over 98% of the market share b/c he didn't specify which browser he was comparing FF to.
IE 10 is very nice though. 9, not so much, but its still got more marketshare than all other desktop browsers combined and its actually growing.
Funny, i use FF because of the UI instead of Chrome. UI ends up being a question of choice. Just so happens some like one more often over the other. Plus I enjoy sync. Nice FF feature (not tied to one of the big names of the industry).
Mozilla has gone out of its way to make Firefox more and more like Chrome. What more could you want?
I wish they would leave FF alone and let it look like itself, so I wouldn't have to rely on an FF3 theme to make it usable.
current FF theme is copied from Opera.
At least they want to change that with their next UI update.
If you're using a mechanical spinning disk as your boot disk, you're missing out.
I agree. Even the 11.5 is unstable and occasionally crashes my GPU driver, which often times crashes the entire computer.