Firefox 18 Beta with faster JavaScript


Faster, and particularly to the beta of version 18 of the browser Firefox. Mozilla to ensure just-in-time compiler IonMonkey has built to replace the SpiderMonkey JavaScript engine. David Anderson had noticed in September large improvements in benchmarks. Particularly complex JavaScript applications of longer duration should thus be faster.

In addition, according to the release notes to switch between Tabs have become faster. Not only faster, but also more beautiful is the presentation: For high-resolution displays such as the retina displays from Apple, Firefox is now customized. In addition, there should be a new HTML scaling algorithm that displays pictures better. The MozTouch implementation for touch events will be replaced by the W3C standard.

Other news for Web Developers: The CSS3 FlexBox module is now being implemented, and the @ supports the CSS Conditional Rules Rules are also implemented. A preliminary implementation of WebRTC has found its way into Firefox 18th

An additional security measure, you can in the beta via about: config set: namely, Firefox can now be secured with HTTPS pages block about inline scripts that are transmitted unsecured.

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