What to Expect from Firefox 3 Beta 4?
March 3, 2008
Some time ago Percy Cabello wrote a nice article about one of the most important new “features” in the upcoming Firefox 3 Beta 4 release – performance.
They’ve doubled Firefox 3 Pre Beta 4 JavaScript performance (compared to Beta 3) and almost tripled (compared to Firefox 2). The following picture shows other web browsers results as well.
Too bad that Opera 9.5 Beta wasn’t been able to finish this test. Maybe Opera Desktop Team already working on this one so could compare Firefox 3 Beta 4 and Opera 9.5 Beta performance.
What is more, Firefox 3 handles much better with memory usage and Beta 4 should be released within a few weeks or so.
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If you are comparing against a Firefox Pre-beta wouldn’t it be logical to compare against the latest weekly build(Not really weekly, but that’s what they call it) of Opera?
You can find them here: http://my.opera.com/desktopteam/blog/
Regarding 9.50 Beta not finishing at all: I’ve actually found some of the weekly builds to be more stable than the beta. Kinda of odd, it should be the other way around but that’s my experience.
Percy Cabello tested browsers, not me :-)
Whoops, I commented in the wrong place. I’m sorry.
Same can be said for Safari. Its widely known that the upcoming Safari 3.1 has major improvements in Javascript. Test again with the latest nightly from Webkit.org and then see who comes out on top!