Download Firefox 9 Beta
Even though the Final build of Firefox 8 web browser was released just little than a week ago, Mozilla has already began working on future versions and has now released the Firefox 9 Beta.
So what’s new?
There are couple of changes, the most significant being a newly added Type Interface, which drastically improves JavaScript performance.
Firefox 9 Beta Changelog
- Added Type Inference, significantly improving JavaScript performance
- Improved theme integration for Mac OS X Lion
- Added two finger swipe navigation for Mac OS X Lion
- Added support for querying Do Not Track status via JavaScript
- Added support for font-stretch
- Improved support for text-overflow
- Improved standards support for HTML5, MathML, and CSS
- Fixed several stability issues
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what the hell happened this beta is 3 times slower than ff8
I find it probably one and a half times quicker than FF8.
If you are using lots of add-ons, restart the browser with add-ons disabled and see how you go. Go through the add-ons and enable them one at a time so they are the only add-on that’s running. This should quickly enable you to see if any of them are causing the slow down.
Otherwise I would recommend posting at forums.mozillazine.org and asking for advice.
If you want help then you need to post more detail about your system, add-ons rather than just saying it’s slow. If however you’re just doing some light trolling, then good luck to you.