Firefox 3 beta 4: postMessage and perf
Date : 2008 03 11 Category : Tech & DevelopmentMozilla has released Firefox 3 beta 4 which includes new standards support and performance:
Improved platform features such as: support for HTML5’s window.postMessage and window.messageEvent, JavaScript 1.8 improvements, and offline data storage for web applications. Performance improvements: changes to our JavaScript engine as well as profile guided optimization resulted in significant gains over previous releases in the popular SunSpider test from Apple, web applications like Google Mail and Zoho Office run much faster, and continued improvements to memory usage drastically reduce the amount of memory consumed over long web browsing sessions.There is news on the Firefox 3b5 schedule. The final version has to not be TOO far in the future.