Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 18th Aug 2010 21:03 UTC, submitted by suka
In a recent interview with derStandard.at Mozilla's Chris Blizzard talks about the rising competition by Google Chrome, the evolution of the web platform and the prospects for WebM. He also promises that Firefox 4 will be "one generation ahead" of other browsers in relation to Javascript speed.
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Firefox 4 Beta 3 is available now... It still does not have the promised speed improvements, though.
Certainly, nobody says that improvements are in place. As a Linux all-time user, I have the options of Chrome and FF. I was using Chrome for some time, but there are too many things that are missing from it, which, on the other hand, I have in FF. Probably that's why the Chrome's UI is (feels?) faster, but that's not the most dazzling thing in the world. I prefer FF because it has tons of useful extensions, most sites I visit are quite friendly with it (as opposed to Chrome), it has good integration with the rest of my software, like Thunderbird (what a surprise
), IM client, etc, etc. Last but not least - some of the internal and external web applications or services I have to use quite simply refuse to add support for Chrome - they like IE and FF only. So, in my particular case, I can't be productive enough with Chrome, not to mention some of the inabilities to customize, and the browsing habits - I can't change them just because of one browser - I know the location of the functions over here and there, I know the exact place in the menu where certain application lives, I'm used to certain shortcuts - this is what makes me fast. Now, for the speed - this relative term - I must admit that FF has its slowdowns - especially in the search bar and the UI/menu - there are lot of IO calls being made, which Mozilla guys stated to got rid of. Personally I don't really care or pay attention to JS speed, as pages load up eventually, at acceptable speeds - I can't really notice this or that site being much faster in Chrome - probably the underlying hardware takes care of that. I don't hate Chrome, it has some pretty nice stuff, like autocompletion of the URL typed in the omnibar, for example, but I'd still like to keep my old habits = FF. I really hope that by the end of the year we will see a much competitive browser by Mozilla, while at the same time I don't think that something revolutionary will appear - browsers have reached, IMHO, some sort of features/speed/usability saturation, and I think the innovations will be less that we were used to see. What I'm looking for in a browser it will allegedly appear exactly in FF4 ...
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if it's released in the next ten years...heck, by the time this thing hits it's final stage, something better will have come along. Firefox 4...yeah, right! (we're currently at 3.6.8...that's a TON of versions to have to wait through)
Yeah, we're going to have to wait through all those versions...wait, what? Seriously, you don't think that's how version numbers work, do you?
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if it's released in the next ten years...heck, by the time this thing hits it's final stage, something better will have come along. Firefox 4...yeah, right! (we're currently at 3.6.8...that's a TON of versions to have to wait through)