Firefox 3.5 is out. 2.5-3x faster than Firefox 3, new features

[Asher]

I'm not kidding. If my salary increases 250-300%, that's substantial. If the amount I give to charity (under 10 roubles) increases 250-300%, that's negligible.
They went from 18ms down to 2ms. That's also negligible.

Are you ****ing serious? It's a BENCHMARK SUITE. Its sample size is small but the representation is important.

At work we're working on a huge mapping webapp. We'll have 500 or so "pins" on a fullscreen map in the browser, and we want to cluster ones X many pixels from eachother. It's all done by JS.

Right now in IE8 it takes about 5 seconds to compute each time the map is moved. On FF3 it took about 2. Now it takes well under 1.

This is a huge and noticable improvement. As webapps get increasingly more complex (like Google Apps), a 200-300% improvement in JS speed is MASSIVE.

I am completely baffled how you cannot comprehend the value in this speed boost. It's NOT negligible.

Hell, run Google's JS benchmark suite. FF3 runs it in 30 mins, FF3.5 runs it in 12. Tell me that's negligible.

[Wiglaf]

Is there a single Firefox persona/theme that isn't fugly?

[Sirotnikov]

depends on your taste

I used to like Naver and now I use Daum. It's very similar to the basic but gives a slightly different shade and feel

[Dis]

Is there a single Firefox persona/theme that isn't fugly?

some of us who aren't gay care more about functionality than looks.

[onodera]

Are you ****ing serious? It's a BENCHMARK SUITE. Its sample size is small but the representation is important.

At work we're working on a huge mapping webapp. We'll have 500 or so "pins" on a fullscreen map in the browser, and we want to cluster ones X many pixels from eachother. It's all done by JS.

Right now in IE8 it takes about 5 seconds to compute each time the map is moved. On FF3 it took about 2. Now it takes well under 1.

This is a huge and noticable improvement. As webapps get increasingly more complex (like Google Apps), a 200-300% improvement in JS speed is MASSIVE.

I am completely baffled how you cannot comprehend the value in this speed boost. It's NOT negligible.

Hell, run Google's JS benchmark suite. FF3 runs it in 30 mins, FF3.5 runs it in 12. Tell me that's negligible.

Do you question my right to troll you?
However, I'd rather people didn't use JS for computation-intensive tasks; it's a weakly, dynamically typed language with prototype-based objects. It's not its forte. I'm okay with actually downloading an application to my computer.

[Asher]

Do you question my right to troll you?
However, I'd rather people didn't use JS for computation-intensive tasks; it's a weakly, dynamically typed language with prototype-based objects. It's not its forte. I'm okay with actually downloading an application to my computer.

That's fine, dear, but that's not how the web works.

[Asher]

Another reason that Safari and Chrome, etc are inferior:

http://craigmod.com/journal/font-face/

[Kitschum]

Artsy curly fonts should be banned

[Drake Tungsten]

The guys who wrote that piece sound like pretentious douchebags, Asher. I thought you had better sense than that...

[Asher]

The guys who wrote that piece sound like pretentious douchebags, Asher. I thought you had better sense than that...

What are you doing reading the text?

[Asher]

onodera..try this out in Opera vs Firefox and tell me the speed is negligible.

http://people.mozilla.com/~vladimir/mdemos/imgmanip/image.html

[Asher]

4. HTML 5 support is good, but it's not like no one supports Flash video anymore. I'm still an XHTML 2.0 fanboy, anyway.

It's dead, Jim.

http://news.cnet.com/8301-17939_109-10281477-2.html?tag=newsLeadStoriesArea.1

[MikeH]

No big surprise.

[Dis]

installed 3.5. when I put in my new hard drive. Not building a computer yet. But really wanted more room and my old hard drive hadn't been formatted in 4 years. It was getting slow.

I notice no difference in speed. Overall I'm happy with it.

[loinburger]

Blargh, no mouse gestures or tab mix plus.