Firefox is rushing daily towards its next release. This time we have Firefox 9 which will be released tomorrow. After several beta versions of Firefox 9, users can have full version at last. This time one can download Firefox 9 directly from the official website. No more Nightly FTP server this time.
Firefox 9: What’s New
Now the main issue is what new Mozilla is going to offer in this latest version of Firefox. Well, the most significant change brought in Firefox 9 over Firefox 8 is addition of type inference to the JavaScript engine. This particular change would improve JS execution speed by 20-30%.
As far as we know IE, Safari and Chrome all lack this feature. Although it would be too early to say that Firefox has now got the fastest JavaScript performance but one thing is for sure that Firefox is definitely very close.
To check its performance for JavaScript-heavy sites, try using Gmail, Facebook and Google+. Besides this there are a bunch of bugs and stability fixes. Overall speed of Firefox 9 has increased. Mac OS X version now allows users to use “two finger swipe navigation”. Also Firefox 9 has got deeper theme integration for Mac OS X. For developers there are some new hooks available along with HTML5 and CSS support. If you were looking forward to try Firefox 9 then here is a chance to try it before its official release. You can also check out the full release notes.
Firefox 9: Download Links
Download Firefox 9 for Windows
Download Firefox 9 for Mac OS X
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